Dear Marriage Supporter:
We need your help! With just six hours left, we still need to raise more than $30,000 to reach our goal of $50,000 by midnight.
But I'm confident we can make it!
Some of you have already given $1,000, or $500, or $100. Some have given $15 or $20. I know that someone reading this email can make a tax-deductible gift of $10,000 or more to support the DumpStarbucks campaign.
Whatever the amount, will you please make a generous, tax-deductible donation right away to help us reach our goal of raising $50,000?
We are at a critical moment in corporate America. The Human Rights Campaign and their allies have been carefully cultivating corporate support for years. Now large corporations are beginning to actively advocate for same-sex marriage, with Starbucks leading the way.
We must stop this sort of corporate activism in its tracks! And the DumpStarbucks campaign is an important first step in exposing the intolerance and anti-diversity of America's largest coffee shop chain.
Please make a tax-deductible donation right now to help us reach our goal of raising $50,000. That money will be poured into an advertising campaign to expand our Dump Starbucks program and help us reach 100,000 petition signatures.
This is one of those moments when we have to draw a line in the sand and tell the liberal elites trying to warp society...NOT ANY MORE!
We know what marriage is.
We know that it takes a man and a woman because children deserve and need a mother and a father.
We know God's truth about marriage.
We know the threat same-sex marriage poses to religious liberty.
If Starbucks wants to enter the Culture Wars by corporately backing same-sex marriage, they need to know that they're going to lose customers...LOTS of them.
It's time to send a message to corporate America...you had better respect the values and beliefs of millions of your potential customers!
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So in the (extremely) unlikely case that this campain is going to create an impact that actually hurts Starbucks, will NOM also provide for the hard working men and women (including fathers and mothers) behind the counter that are the first in line to get sacked as a result?
Is this a good use of money and time? The total is only going up by a few 100 a day. Starbucks stock keeps on rising.
Are you planning on stopping the "corporate activism" of ExxonMobil, too?
So, after a couple of months and apparently tens of thousands of dollars, NOM still has yet to get 10% of the number of signatures that a petition Thanking Starbucks for their support of civil marriage equality got in a couple of weeks. Seems to me the American people have spoken and they aren't bothered in the least by Starbucks' support of equality.
You know you must be getting really close to the target when you start seeing flak.
Right, Randy. The data is out there and yet you don't see it.
Thai you Starbucks stopped seeking signers ages ago and still leads. Hmmm?
*thank you
Marriage licenses are issued by the state, not the church. No religion is necessary for a marriage to be legal, valid or recognized. $50,000=10,000 beverages at Starbucks, it only takes 10 stores to do that daily. There are 13,000+ stores in the USA.
Supporting marriage equality is intolereance and anti-diversity? Man, Brian's words get more desperate every day. What a loser.
BREAKING NEWS:
Friend of Marriage,
As the Campaign Manager of Minnesota for Marriage I have to tell you how thankful I am for supporters like you who have donated in response to Target’s shocking announcement to sell “Pride T-Shirts” during the month of June.
Since then we have learned two very important things that I need to share with you:
1) The Washington, D.C. based pro-homosexual marriage group they are donating to is a partner with the main supporter of gay marriage in Minnesota – this means Target’s donation of $120,000.00 will go to attempting to defeat the Marriage Protection Amendment this November.
2) They will sell the “Pride Shirts” starting tomorrow online for $12.99 with ALL of the proceeds going to support redefining marriage.
Friend of Marriage,
As the Campaign Manager of Minnesota for Marriage I have to tell you how thankful I am for supporters like you who have donated in response to Target’s shocking announcement to sell “Pride T-Shirts” during the month of June.
Since then we have learned two very important things that I need to share with you:
Friend of Marriage,
"As the Campaign Manager of Minnesota for Marriage I have to tell you how thankful I am for supporters like you who have donated in response to Target’s shocking announcement to sell “Pride T-Shirts” during the month of June."
Andy Parrish
Deputy Campaign Manager
Minnesota for Marriage
14th,
Hate to be the one to break this to you, but demanding different things be treated as if they were not is the epitome of anti-diversity; while insisting opposing schools of thought be excluded from the public conversation is what is meant to be intolerant.
Your anti-Christian bigotry will not go unchallenged and your Orwellian Newspeak will not be enough to carry the day.
"Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
"equal protection under the law"
Yup Randy, unlike you, the courts understand what that actually means. In your view a gay person is an anti-Christian bigot by merely existing. Your foolish attempt to use the language of those seeking equality is like the KKK quoting MLK Jr. while trying to convince the world that they're the victims of persecution at the hands of intolerant blacks. Save you keystrokes and get some help.
Leo/Andy - Thanks for reminding us that your (NOM's) euphemistic "[insert state here] for Marriage" names are just half-a$$ed attempts at covering a full on anti-gay agenda. At some point you'll again try to claim that you're just trying to "protect marriage" but since you're crusading against a discount chain store for selling Pride t-shirts, you've proven that you're full of s---.
14th,
You simply refuse to see the "without due process of law" portion of section 1 do you?
"Procreation is a rational basis to limit marrige to one man one woman pairings."
You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found wanting.
"Procreation is a rational basis to limit marrige to one man one woman pairings."
That's your opinion. And it's wrong. It hasn't been doing so well in court in recent years either. So if that's the best you've got....
14th
Leo's post at #10 states that the money for pride t-shirts will be used to campaign against marriage in Minnesota.
So your foul mouthed tirade that this is " just half-a$$ed attempts at covering a full on anti-gay agenda" is flatly wrong.
14th,
"Procreation is a rational basis to limit marriage to one man one women pairings"
Happens to be the opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States of America in concurrence with duly constituted laws of these United States dating back to 1853 and upheld each and every time they were challenged to fruition.
The only personal opinion here is yours; an opinion based on your expressed belief that everybody that ever came before you was wrong - except for maybe Emperor Nero.
I have stopped going to Starbucks since they put their nose where it doesn't belong.
But folks, we need to also weigh in JC Penney's assault on the traditional family with their disgusting new ads showing 'same-sex 'families'.
Visit their site on Facebook and let them know what you think:
https://www.facebook.com/jcp
Visit http://www.facebook.com/jcp and let them know what you think of them promoting gay parenting and gay marriage in their new advertising campaigns.
@SC Guy thanks for the link. I just told JCP thank you for not listening to people filled with hatred of gay people that think they are the SUPREME judges of "morality". NOM proves once again, it's not about marriage but trying to gather a force of physical violence against anyone gay. Just a reminder of what NOM supports- http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/btb/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/nom-solution-2.jpg
Thanks SC Guy. Left a lovely supportive note for the very lovely JC Penney.
you still haven't breached 50,000 signatures...LOL! the biggest corporate boycot flop in history. bye bye NOM
Chad,
Isn't that what you miscreants wrote when NOM did not reach 20k, 30k, and 40k...? You say that so much it has lost its meaning.
Fast forward twelve months and we will no doubt see you pen:
75k; is that all you got...?
Followed by:
It does not matter that Maryland, Washington, Main, and Michigan voted against us; that Obama lost by twenty points that the Republicans took over both houses and the Presidency that DOMA was upheld on appeal that Prop 8 was upheld on appeal...
It is just nice to see that Don Quixote is alive and well.
I wouldn't worry to much about JC Penny. They've been tanking pretty badly since they started that Ellen DeGeneres nonsense. Straight people are amused by gay people, but they don't want to dress like them. lol.
While you twist and turn over this pathetic boycott, the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals -- which includes two Republicans -- just ruled DOMA unconstitutional!
Yes, the ignoble judicial activists have thrown down the gauntlet (as expected) in Massachusetts.
Good.
Things are progressing nicely toward the SCOTUS Smackdown now.......
I love when people say same-sex marriage is Anti-Christian bigotry and attack on religion. Really makes me giggle.
@Doug
If you read the ruling, they said DOMA will still be in effect until the Supreme Court of the United States decides it.
So the ruling really didn't do anything.
@Sean
I know, the destruction of our values and traditions is really something to laugh at isn't it? This is why I can never take liberals seriously.
Zack - Equality is one of our nation's greatest values.
Gays don't have children, Pat. They have other people's children. Brush up on your biology.
Son of Adam. I know several gay people both male and female - who have their own children via consensual sexual relationships they have had with members of the opposite sex. A male gay friend of mine (who is a 20 year veteran of the US military) fathered a child with a woman some years back. He pays child support to the woman and visits the child.
@JR
Correct, but "equality" for a union that isn't equal in nature isn't true equality.
Zack - Whose to say which unions are and are not equal in nature?
JR,treating right and wrong as "equal" is one of our biggest mistakes.
Skooter McGoo, you are trying very hard to promote violence. Why is that?
The misrepresentations and outright lies that fill your comments do stand as an example of something that the rest of society can take at face value and be forewarned.
Your pro-gay bigotry has been on display and will be on the public record along with your other fanatical remarks.
How the F is this tax exempt activity??? Brown belongs behind bars.
@Chairm That poster was made & signed by a NOM supporter in 2010 that happen to be a pastor just like the clergy of late that have called for gay people to be put to death, interned in camps, punched, or the best yet, the man of god that called for the government to put all gay people to death. I'm not the one promoting violence, NOM & the "faithful" that sustain this organization are calling for my murder and justifying it with the bible. It's not just about marriage.
You are trying very hard, Scooter, to promote violence. Why is that?
14th, you do not understand the law if your comment accurately reflects your true thoughts on the matter.
If not an accurate reflection, then, why you bother to write what you did is the real question you need to answer.
Why are you trying to hard to marginalize your political opponents by your proposed (or rather popagandic-infused) abuse of the tax laws?