Fundies wail over Hallmark's line of same-sex couple cards

I sent a Thank You card to the Hallmark CEO

It was a Hallmark

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by: cindik @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 09:36:26 AM CDT

For reference:

My original suggestion

I sent a fancy Hallmark music card!

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by: cindik @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 10:01:19 AM CDT

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brilliant idea

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by: ol cranky @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 16:36:40 PM CDT

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From a Foreign Perspective

American Fundie Christians are some of the most hilarious comedians ever. Little Britain eat your heart out!

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by: tavdy79 @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 09:42:25 AM CDT

I love the hilarity of christianist wingnuts more than...

...transsexual porn.

>^..^<

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by: KatRose @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 12:07:56 PM CDT

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of all the small tedious things for the Reich Wing to get their knickers in a twist about

Hallmark probably tries out hundreds of new lines of cards EVERY SEASON, of those maybe 5 show signs of good sales.
and nobody who isn't on the board of Hallmark cares.

I'm grateful Hallmark included our celebrations, but it's not like the LGBT community hasn't been creating OUR OWN cards for decades.  

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner

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by: peteyPornpig @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 09:55:11 AM CDT

Our own cards

Great point petey. I started my own line of ethnic lgbt cards a few years ago because the Hallmarks of the world didn't have us on their raydar. While I prefer cards 'for us made by us', I'll be sending Hallmark a thanks for supporting the community.

Lavenderpop Greeting Cards

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by: brotha99 @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 10:38:36 AM CDT

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Have they ever really been inclusive?

Around 1999 or 2000 a friend of mine's grandmother died.  I went to Hallmark looking for a fairly religious condolence card because they are a very devout family and I really thought that that would be what they would be turning to at that time.  Guess what-no Muslim cards at all.  There were a ton of Christian cards, being mouth breathing Wheaton and all (where religion is a competitive sport and you always seem to see a Jesus fish on the back bumper of the asshole driver who keeps cutting people off and ignores yellow lights, not even after they turn red), and a few token Jewish cards but nothing else.  It's not like they wouldn't have a market for that sort of thing, there's a mosque only a mile or two away.  

My America includes LGBT families.

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by: Mena @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 13:32:06 PM CDT

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SO LETS SEE.....

They now have to boycott Hallmark, Levi's, PG & E, AT & T, Pepsico (who just gave $500,000 to PFLAG for more Staight for Equality training at US companies.),

...and then a few other PFLAG Sponsors,CocoCola,Citicorps,  IBM, MetLife,Dow, Ford, Motorola, BestBuy, Wells Fargo, Comcast, WalMart, FM, Aetna...etc.etc. Plus all the companies on HRC's lists that fully support gay rights.

 

It's the Hammer of JUSTICE,
It's the Bell of FREEDOM,
It's the Song about LOVE between,
my Brothers and my Sisters
...All over this Land.

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by: Orion45 @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 09:58:14 AM CDT

We need to focus on food companies

If we can just get every food company to support same sex marriage, they'll have to boycott food.

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by: cindik @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 10:08:33 AM CDT

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If we get DADT ended

Maybe they will boycott America.
Alaska would have them and wants to split away anyways; Governor Palin supports independence.

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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by: MauraHennessey @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 11:13:55 AM CDT

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I dunno

all that hot air, that close to the Artic Circle? Global warming in 3,2,1...but at least the wolves and polar bears would have lots of food.

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by: Louise @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 11:49:15 AM CDT

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What wolves?

I thought they'd all been shot by guns wielded from helicopters.

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting." -E.E. Cummings

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by: popsiclestand @ Thu Oct 09, 2008 at 01:36:12 AM CDT

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They don't send Hallmark anyway

Everyone knows that "conservatives" don't sent out Hallmark cards anyway.  

They send Fantus.

Not that there's anything wrong with Fantus.  Just don't tell everyone you send Hallmark, when you send Wal-Mart.

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by: bluegrassfool @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 10:06:33 AM CDT

So where do the Fundie shop now?

Seems to me that the list of places they are boycotting because of teh gays is getting pretty long.  A quick search of past Blend pages shows the following are being boycotted:

Disney Land
Ford
Oprah
McDonalds
PG&E
Wrigley gum
Starbucks
Microsoft

I'm sure I must have missed some...

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by: Paul In SF @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 10:12:51 AM CDT

Oops

I see that Orion45 put together an even better list while I was typing mine.  Good job.

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by: Paul In SF @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 10:14:36 AM CDT

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Don 't forget Pacific Gas & Electric

Of course, most of them probably wouldn't miss electricity.  They seem to spend their lives in the dark already.

Cynic, n.  A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.  
-Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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by: QScribe @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 11:10:19 AM CDT

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Hellfire and Brimstone!

Yea, verily, The Book of Greetings saith that cards congratulating sodomites and lesbianites are an abomination before the Lord and those who readeth, buyeth or sendeth them or condone their design, printing, stocking or purchase shall be condemned to the everlasting fires of a 24/7 amateur production of Riverdance.  

"In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant."  The Colbert Report

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by: Lev Raphael @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 10:24:38 AM CDT

Why else would they ban

the lickable stamps in favor for the self-adhesive?

Baby Jesus sayeth that thou shalt not use thy tongue for other than eating purposes- tongues projecting outside of thine mouth for any reason makes Him sad and pleases the Devil...

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by: Louise @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 11:02:55 AM CDT

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there they go again

they make it sound like they will now be forced to not only gay marry and adopt a gay baby but then send a gay greeting card to mark the occasion.  

i promise not to gay adopt james dobson or any of his flock if they promise to stop annoying me.

folk the war

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by: suejeffers @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 10:26:42 AM CDT

Poor, little minded fundies...

...they got their little feelings hurt over someone else's happiness.

(Somebody drag out the tiny violin, again).

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by: Robyn @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 10:30:02 AM CDT

They're miserable

and expect everyone else to be miserable as well. Misery is their penance for the Original Sin. They believe that they must sacrifice the joy of life in order to be able to enjoy the after-life.

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by: AggieCowboy @ Thu Oct 09, 2008 at 08:42:16 AM CDT

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There you go again

Joey in Clovis, CA writes, "I promise you that myself or anyone in my family will shop at any Hallmark store unless you repeal this anti-family decision."

Say it ain't so, Joe!

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by: cindik @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 10:42:21 AM CDT

Except for Shasta City

I notice these are all extreme So Cal located cities....those fundies in San Diego County and the Inland Empire are working overtime.

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by: Karen in Kalifornia @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 10:50:49 AM CDT

eta

Remember it was San Diego County organization and churches which spearheaded the Anti gay marriage amendment.

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by: Karen in Kalifornia @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 10:51:37 AM CDT

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Don't forget the southern half of the OC.

There's one from Mission Viejo, one from Costa Mesa, and one from Rancho Santa Margarita.  This is from the same county that gave us Richard Nixon, Lou Sheldon and his daughter, and the Trinity Broadcasting Network.

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by: Blood From Machines @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 11:56:22 AM CDT

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Dear Hallmark;

The Goddess tells us that "all acts of love and pleasure" are Her rituals. The wedding cards for gay and Lesbian couples help to enhance their joy; they are definitely pleasing in Her eyes.

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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by: MauraHennessey @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 11:10:53 AM CDT

Do these nitwits

seriously believe that a few gay-themed greeting cards constitute a serious threat to heterosexual privilege in this country?  Every time you think they can't get any dipper, they do.  Real overachievers, these folks.

Cynic, n.  A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.  
-Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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by: QScribe @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 11:14:14 AM CDT

Sent thank you e-mail to Hallmark

Hi...new to the Blend...well not really, but today was the first time I've signed up for a log in.  Been reading it for about 2 years now though.

After seeing this entry this morning I sent a thank you e-mail to Hallmark, and received a reply from them fairly quickly.  You can view the reply at:
http://blog.myspace.com/index....


Please, take it personally, because that's how I meant it.

K

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by: Tweetyrider @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 11:25:11 AM CDT

That's really nice!

Of both Hallmark and also of you for sharing the reply for all to read (which I went over and did).

Thanks, K! :)

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by: Louise @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 11:52:30 AM CDT

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Let them boycott

until their world shrinks to a little island of pious hate. Then they can turn and eat each other.

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by: hank @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 11:27:39 AM CDT

"Putting the dollar over principle"

"* Kathy in Mission Viejo, CA writes, "You are putting the dollar over principle. How many cards will you sell to homosexuals vs. non homosexuals? Do the math!"

So if they bow to the boycott, which is designed to hurt their bottom line, are they putting the dollar over principle there?  

I really wish logic classes would return to the core curriculum.

# Duty, duty -- honor is, is --
Honor, Creideiki -- alertly
# Shared, is -- Honor #

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by: MileHighDawg @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 12:10:12 PM CDT

go easy on her

recitation can be difficult.  remember that most lines that the fundies spout are not original thoughts, but a recycled belch that they heard on fox news or their local mega-church.  many of them were probably even busy slapping their kids or upholding the sanctity of their marriages in the neighbor's bed at the time, so you can imagine the difficulty in trying to remember verbatim what you're supposed to be outraged about, and why.  

The gays stole my lunch money

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by: matt in mpls @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 12:23:36 PM CDT

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Is this irony?

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil

Woe unto them that call hatred the love of christ...

Oh what fun these people are!

* Lucretia in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA writes, "I will no longer, ever, buy another Hallmark product, under any name, unless you pull these cards."

Under any name? How many aliases do you have Lucretia?

* Cathleen in Costa Mesa, CA writes, "I will not scandalize family members with cards mocking tradtional marriage . [It] is unnatural and not healthy for those individuals. That is not love."

Soooo, you won't be buying the "Congratulations on Marrying you Husband" card for little Mary's 5th birthday?  

watashi no yomeiri wa doko desu ka

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by: belfrieboi @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 12:58:36 PM CDT

Added

I guess I'll have to go get little Mary's Happy 5th Birthday card from Night Secrets. Do you think she'd rather have the one with joke about elderly people and sex on their birthday, or the one with the naked man holding the cake saying "Make a wish?"

watashi no yomeiri wa doko desu ka

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by: belfrieboi @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 13:05:21 PM CDT

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Superb.

I'm glad to know they've finally stopped murder, cured every disease, brokered world peace, fixed the economy, generated renewable energy, fed the hungry, sheltered the homeless, and generally made the world a better place.

Wait? They haven't? Well, seems like they might want to get their priorities, er, straight.

How would fundies function if they didn't have gay people to beat up on at every opportunity?

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by: Bachalon @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 13:10:31 PM CDT

They would find someone else to beat up on

Who's next up on the totem pole...legal (note: not illegal) immigrants for invading a country founded on immigration? After all they bring many of the cultural traditions of their homeland with them and [sarcasm] we all know that's "anti-American".[/sarcasm]

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by: AggieCowboy @ Thu Oct 09, 2008 at 08:53:39 AM CDT

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Dear wingnuts:

Do you see us boycotting Hallmark over their MANY Christian-themed cards?  GET A FRICKIN' LIFE!!!

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by: Naperville Mom @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 13:10:39 PM CDT

bwahahahahahahahahaha!

Sherrie in Carmichael, CA writes, "I have been collecting Precious Moments figurines for many years now. I won't be buying them from your stores anymore."

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by: Miranda Writes @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 13:11:19 PM CDT

So where will she be buying them?

And aren't Hallmark stores franchises? So she'd be hurting the small business owner who is her neighbor, thereby eliminating a family's (and possibly multiple families) livelihood and decreasing local tax revenue when the store is forced out of business...all for 4 cards no one is forcing them to purchase or even really look at. Their logic totally escapes me.

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by: AggieCowboy @ Thu Oct 09, 2008 at 09:03:51 AM CDT

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Every time I think they can't get any more looney - they pull something like

this or the TV broadcasts a Palin speech.

I wonder if Barack would give her a position somewhere, simply to keep Tina Fey working.

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by: Scott_NC @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 13:30:34 PM CDT

Here's a thought...

She could be the Secretary of Nowhere.

>^..^<

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by: KatRose @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 15:11:47 PM CDT

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Or how about

assigning her to Russia Watch? She can sit outside her house with a pair of binoculars and tell us when Putin rears his head into US airspace.

watashi no yomeiri wa doko desu ka

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by: belfrieboi @ Thu Oct 09, 2008 at 08:10:57 AM CDT

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I wonder how that left comments against Hallmark

Are still in marriage number one?

Dena

Cisgender. Because "Genetic" (or non) is so 2006.

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by: Denabeth @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 14:49:34 PM CDT

*many*

Cisgender. Because "Genetic" (or non) is so 2006.

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by: Denabeth @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 14:51:25 PM CDT

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OR ...make your own.

WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH SIGN... This link was on G-A-Y.

 says-it.com/wbc/ 

Need you guys to help...my funny bone isn't so much today. 

It's the Hammer of JUSTICE,
It's the Bell of FREEDOM,
It's the Song about LOVE between,
my Brothers and my Sisters
...All over this Land.

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by: Orion45 @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 15:19:10 PM CDT

the audacity

This mentality always puzzles me:

* Kathy in Mission Viejo, CA writes, "You are putting the dollar over principle. How many cards will you sell to homosexuals vs. non homosexuals? Do the math!"

They always seem to think they speak for the entirety of heterosexuality.  As if all straight people agree with them.  Clearly Brad Pitt and Stephen Spielberg don't agree with them.  I doubt they are the only straight folks who support equality.
We gain support every day.  They're going to turn around and suddenly realize the entire country has moved on without them.  And they'll be so mad that they won't know what to do with themselves.

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by: PunkZanyJ @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 22:51:46 PM CDT