Have fundamentalist Christians really become so desperate for fresh hatreds that they're reduced to boycotting JCPenney for hiring a wildly popular talk show host with a magnificent talent for marketing who just happens to joke and cavort with elves?
As Ellen DeGeneres revealed on her TV program a few months back, "I stand for honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need." Such sentiments aren't normally regarded as a grave menace to moral America when they proceed from the lips of an "upstanding" Christian woman. Why, then, should they be condemned when they come from an elf-lover--from a seemingly very nice lady who was simply born to love elves?
I don't get it. I just don't get why some Christians, who tremble in awe of a Divine Creator's vast works, would expend any energy against one of His supremely natural ones.
Of course, the big problem here is that they will undoubtedly take credit for Penney's major problems resulting from low sales. The facts those problems result from a drastic marketing change and nothing these people have done is irrelevant.
I actually have no problem with any particular group boycotting a merchant or product because pf the views of management or owner, or whatever. I do it regularly, e.g Chic-fil-a.
It jsut seems somewhat hypocritical, as you point out, in this case. At the same time, by their interpretation of the Bible, homosexuality is an abomination to the Lord. Never quite figured out why God would create something that was an abomination to her, but, whatever.
Posted by: japa21 | December 06, 2012 at 03:36 PM
So now I'm supposed to make my decision about where I shop for cheap Chinese-made trash based on the sexual orientation of a TV actor?
Life is gettin' so complicated ...
Posted by: David Donnell | December 07, 2012 at 12:34 AM