Support Campbell's Soup and give the finger to gay-bashing homophobes

[rowangolightly]

Found this over at gamera_spinning's and whole-heartedly agree with him.

Short version: Campbell's bought two two-page advertisements in the December and January issues of The Advocate, which features a lesbian couple and their son, and apparently the Catholic Church thinks this is going to destroy the fabric of civilization and the folks at catholic.com are apparently asking folks to call Campbell's to protest their "supporting the homosexual agenda".


Here's the nonsense over at Catholic Forums, wanting folk to contact the CEO of Campbell's to pressure him to take the ads down. I don't think so.

http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=295197

You can see the oh-so-horrific ads here:

http://www.afa.net/pdfs/cscads.pdf

Already sent off my email to this man in support of his advertising choices!

Comments

[son-of-dust.livejournal.com]

And people should bash Catholics all you want. After 2000 years, they are kind of used to it.

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

I only bash those who ask for it with their bad behavior and I do not view this as bashing but merely answering an attack with a counter-attack. It's entirely up to you if you think this sort of behavior is laudatory for a supposedly Loving church to indulge in. I am not "bashing" the whole Catholic church, just the behavior in this case.

*shrugs* Do you hear me bitching about how Catholics behaved historically? No, and you won't. I'd rather focus on the here and now.

[son-of-dust.livejournal.com]

Why counter attack when you can merely sidestep and let the other person look like an idiot to a confined number of people. Now his voice has been expanded to include your friends list.

It is one person on a Catholic message board, and from the looks of the first 3 pages of replies in that message board, he is alone.

Absolutely alone.

You and the person that you pulled the info from both had the exact same opportunity to turn this into a positive experience by simply taking the Campbell's ad and saying, "Email Campbells and applaud their marketing and willingness to have a voice on current issues."

Instead, you lumped Catholics into a group with a poster on a message forum. If Benedict had said something, or the USCCB had made a statement, then, yeah, it is the Catholic Church. It isn't. It is one moron.

Buffalo speaks for Catholic.com the exact same that I do for Sixapart and Livejournal.

I didn't say anything about his behavior. Good or bad. He is entitle to his opinion. Whether it stinks or not. I have never considered the Catholic Church to be loving.

But your post has certain had lots of positive Catholic replies added to it.

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

My goal was to garner some support for the beleaguered head of Campbells; this is a tough enough business environment in which to do business as it is. I have not sent any hate mail to the Catholic church nor the forum under which this was posted.

Loving is as loving does.