That's why I stopped subscribing to BH&G. I now subscribe to This Old House. No gay couples and better fix-it-up advice, plus it costs less to subscribe.
I will no longer be buying Christmas ornaments from Hallmark, either. If folks stopped buying Christmas ornaments from Hallmark, that would be a big hole in their bottom line. Now that the gay marriage cards are available, the next thing I can see is "Our First Christmas Together" ornaments with 2 guys or 2 gals. (barfing emoticon)
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The new issue of Better Homes and Gardens has the winners of their readers' ideas contests, and a couple of the winners are gay male couples. There have also been male couples in Country Living and Country Home magazines. (You can see that I'm really into that kind of stuff.) I kinda wondered when the waahmbulance would be dispatched to Fundieville over that.
Oh, and did y'all know there was a Christian shelter magazine called "Lily"? Utterly hilarious. Only lasted one issue.
EDIT: Upthread another fundie mentions other magazines, and it's true what they say about those, too. They could, of course, submit their own interesting ideas instead of whining, but that would involve not choking back one's creativity for "Jesus."
he next thing I can see is "Our First Christmas Together" ornaments with 2 guys or 2 gals
Quick, someone market that!
The question is that you're not doing so much harm as you think and you're not helping your cause. That gays are catered in this services means that they have money and they're doing business, nothing more, nothing less. That you stop buying is not going to change a reality that is alredy there, that gays are better accepted.
I will no longer be buying Christmas ornaments from Hallmark
The only thing I buy for Christmas these days is a bottle of Laphroaig, but I expect that's just a sign we're living in the end times too.
[My impression of Diane opening up to an article in Better Homes and Gardens that has a gay couple involved]
ARRRRGGGGHHH!!! THE GHEY!!! IT BURNNZZ!!
They seriously demand that no one acknowledge the existence of homosexuals at all, don't they? Far more sickening than anything that they could possibly be reacting to.
Okay, first you get pissy at us because we're not in stable, monogamous relationships. Then we do prove that many of us can, in fact, have healthy, loving relationships, and that's offensive to you too.
Somehow I get the feeling that there's no way we can win on this one. More's the pity.
Do you know for a fact that none of the hetero couples featured in the magazines are behind on their taxes, or eat the grapes as they walk through the grocery store, or if either person in the marriage has ever cheated on the other? Did they have sex before marriage? Have they ever had an abortion? Heck, are they even married? They might be living in sin.
"If folks stopped buying Christmas ornaments from Hallmark"
Yeah, but think how many of us are now buying EXCLUSIVELY from Hallmark for the lulz.
""Our First Christmas Together" ornaments with 2 guys or 2 gals."
I don't see how- Oh, it's a female.
I would get a lesbian ornament, though. For the lulz.
The small minority of fundie assholes who do everything the AFA tells them to do are not going to make a dent in any major corporation's bottom line. Sure, they can lie for Jesus and claim that their Ford boycott really stuck it to the Ford Motor Company, but the problem is that no one is buying SUVs anymore. The small group of people the AFA holds sway over will not crush Ford. They didn't crush Kraft. I don't think they've really done a number on McDonald's, as the line at the drive-thru at my local McD's seems longer than ever. And they won't pwn Hallmark.
@solomongrundy
The only thing I buy for Christmas these days is a bottle of Laphroaig, but I expect that's just a sign we're living in the end times too.
May I reccomend for your Xmas 2009 that you treat yourself to a bottle of Cardhu.
One year I managed to convince all my nearest and dearest to get me a nice bottle of Whisky for christmas. I was with the xmas spirit right through to easter!
"the next thing I can see is "Our First Christmas Together" ornaments with 2 guys or 2 gals (barfing emoticon)"
I guess they could be considered a little bit tacky, but worth it just to wave them in your face and see you barf...again...and again...and again....and again........
d'you see?, people will keep on buying them, the regular ones, not the gay-themed. Intelligent people are not in your demographics, apparently.
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