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10 Aug 2005 01:32:11 PM |
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Kraft's 'Gay Games' PR debacle |
Kraft's 'Gay Games' PR debacle
Rev. Jerry Falwell
WorldNetDaily.com
Kraft Foods, the maker of "the world's favorite foods," has found
itself in the middle of a public-relations nightmare after its
corporate leadership decided to sponsor the Gay Games VII, which will
take place in Chicago in July. The Gay Games is an Olympic-style series
of events where homosexuals from around the world compete.
But the Gay Games are not just about athletic competition. Today, I
visited the American Family Association's website that illustrates some
of the after-hours activities that go on during the Gay Games. These
photos can be seen at this AFA website page. Please be warned - these
photos contain partial nudity and lewd depictions. But I feel it is
important that consumers who purchase Kraft products see what goes on
at these Gay Games (billed as "athletic and cultural" events) in order
to understand what types of activities Kraft Foods is actually
sponsoring.
If one visits the Gay Games website, he will discover more than 70
sponsors of the event. These sponsors are almost exclusively homosexual
companies, including PlanetOut.com, Q Television, Pink magazine,
Girlfriends magazine, Boi magazine, ChicagoPride.com and a variety of
others.
Kraft Foods, owners of Maxwell House coffee, Kool-Aid and Capri Sun
drinks, Oscar Mayer meats, Jell-O snacks, Oreo cookies, Nabisco Foods
and many other well-known products, has placed its reputation on the
line by choosing to sponsor the Gay Games.
In an interview with PlanetOut, Kevin G. Boyer, a spokesman for Gay
Games VII, said that, despite the growing protest, Kraft is "behind us
100 percent."
That might change if enough people voice their concern and opposition
to Kraft's decision to sponsor the Gay Games.
Join the nationwide protest
A nationwide protest is presently erupting with scores of Americans
calling and e-mailing Kraft, urging the company to withdraw its
sponsorship of the Gay Games. Many individuals on my staff have already
joined in the protest by sending e-mails to Kraft. They are waiting to
see if the company will reply.
Critics of this protest say it is motivated by "hate," but that's far
from true. That's the typical whiny mantra of homosexual-rights
activists when people raise objections to their activities.
"If you disagree with us, you are hate-mongers!" Give me a break.
The fact is multiple millions of Americans who loyally purchase Kraft
products have a right to express their opinion on the company's
decision to link itself with the Gay Games. These people have a right
to say, "If Kraft insists on sponsoring the Gay Games, I will be
compelled to seek alternative brands at the grocery store."
I am urging all readers to take a moment right now to write to Kraft
Foods CEO Roger K. Deromedi to express your disappointment with Kraft
Foods. Contact information is below.
Please considerately express to him your desire that Kraft Foods
withdraw its corporate sponsorship of Gay Games VII.
I don't think moral-minded Americans understand the potential power
that we wield. I believe we can make a real impact on Kraft over the
course of the next few days if everyone reading this column will take a
couple of minutes to urge the company to cut off its support of Gay
Games VII.
I urge everyone to take a stand for decency by participating in this
national effort to defend traditional family values. In addition, I am
calling on pastors across the country to urge their congregations this
Sunday to get involved in this action. We must let Kraft (and other big
companies that are watching this situation) know that we are holding
them accountable for their actions.
Contact information:
Roger K. Deromedi, CEO
Kraft Foods
3 Lakes Dr.
Northfield, IL 60093
E-mail:
Primary phone: 847-646-2000 (When calling, you will likely be
transferred to a customer service representative who will record your
personal information with the promise that your message will be passed
on to Mr. Deromedi. Again, please be considerate when calling and
simply express that you wish Kraft to withdraw support for the Gay
Games.)
Fax: 847-646-6005
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| User: "PLMerite" |
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| Title: Re: Kraft's 'Gay Games' PR debacle |
10 Aug 2005 02:06:23 PM |
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<rob_c_wade2@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1123698731.649950.325600@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
What kind of events would they have at "Gay Games," the "Hundred Yard Swish"
or something?
Regards, PLMerite
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"Confronting Liberals with the facts of reality is very much akin to
clubbing baby seals. It gets boring after a while, but because Liberals are
so stupid it is easy work." Steven M. Barry
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Kraft's 'Gay Games' PR debacle |
10 Aug 2005 03:01:12 PM |
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1. gays compete at the regular Olympics. Greg Louganis, for example.
2. I am sure that the heterosexuals at the regular Olympics party as
much as the gays at the gay Olympics.
Aaron Hirshberg
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| User: "Dionisio" |
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| Title: Re: Kraft's 'Gay Games' PR debacle |
10 Aug 2005 08:25:24 PM |
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wrote:
Kraft Foods, owners of Maxwell House coffee, Kool-Aid and Capri Sun
drinks, Oscar Mayer meats
<Quickly adds item to grocery list> Wieners, lots and lots of wieners.
<glances up> "What?!?"
Oh.
<scribbles another addition to the list> Buns, lots and lots of buns.
<thinks> <jots another item down> Condiments.
(I practice "safe eating.")
--
Civilians, and Grunts, and Zombies, Oh My!
http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?Dionisio
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| User: "Gregory Gadow" |
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11 Aug 2005 08:49:36 AM |
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Dionisio wrote:
rob_c_wade2@yahoo.com wrote:
Kraft Foods, owners of Maxwell House coffee, Kool-Aid and Capri Sun
drinks, Oscar Mayer meats
<Quickly adds item to grocery list> Wieners, lots and lots of wieners.
<glances up> "What?!?"
Oh.
<scribbles another addition to the list> Buns, lots and lots of buns.
<thinks> <jots another item down> Condiments.
(I practice "safe eating.")
<Jots down>Mayo
<Thinks for a moment, then crosses it out.> "That will come latter.
--
Gregory Gadow
techbear@serv.net
http://www.serv.net/~techbear
"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be
mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not
consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists
in professing to believe what one does not believe. It
is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may
so express it, that mental lying has produced in society.
When man has so far corrupted and prostituted the
chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional
belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared
himself for the commission of every other crime."
- Thomas Paine, "The Age of Reason"
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| User: "JohnN" |
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| Title: Re: Kraft's 'Gay Games' PR debacle |
11 Aug 2005 08:55:54 AM |
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Dionisio wrote:
rob_c_wade2@yahoo.com wrote:
Kraft Foods, owners of Maxwell House coffee, Kool-Aid and Capri Sun
drinks, Oscar Mayer meats
<Quickly adds item to grocery list> Wieners, lots and lots of wieners.
<glances up> "What?!?"
Oh.
<scribbles another addition to the list> Buns, lots and lots of buns.
<thinks> <jots another item down> Condiments.
(I practice "safe eating.")
With relish!
JohnN
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| User: "• Ninure Saunders" |
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| Title: Re: Kraft's 'Gay Games' PR debacle |
11 Aug 2005 08:47:32 AM |
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In article <8OxKe.52623$B52.9053@tornado.ohiordc.rr.com>, Dionisio
<moc-rr-thgisniTA@5ellimd.com> wrote:
-rob_c_wade2@yahoo.com wrote:
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->Kraft Foods, owners of Maxwell House coffee, Kool-Aid and Capri Sun
->drinks, Oscar Mayer meats
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-<Quickly adds item to grocery list> Wieners, lots and lots of wieners.
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-<glances up> "What?!?"
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-Oh.
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-<scribbles another addition to the list> Buns, lots and lots of buns.
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-<thinks> <jots another item down> Condiments.
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-(I practice "safe eating.")
Cheese..lots and lots of cheese. <gotta have cheese dogs>
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Pax Christi,
• Ninure Saunders aka Rainbow Christian
Jesus is my Shepherd and He knows I'm Gay
http://Ninure-Saunders.tk
My Yahoo Group
http://Ninure.tk
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches
http://www.MCCchurch.org
The Bible Site - help provide free scripture
http://www.thebiblesite.org
To send e-mail, remove nohate from address
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| User: "Robibnikoff" |
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| Title: Re: Kraft's 'Gay Games' PR debacle |
11 Aug 2005 09:04:11 AM |
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". Ninure Saunders" <RainbowChristiannohate@Rainbow-Christian.tk> wrote in
message
news:RainbowChristiannohate-1108052104530001@h-68-164-224-248.chcgilgm.dynamic.covad.net...
In article <8OxKe.52623$B52.9053@tornado.ohiordc.rr.com>, Dionisio
<moc-rr-thgisniTA@5ellimd.com> wrote:
-rob_c_wade2@yahoo.com wrote:
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->Kraft Foods, owners of Maxwell House coffee, Kool-Aid and Capri Sun
->drinks, Oscar Mayer meats
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-<Quickly adds item to grocery list> Wieners, lots and lots of wieners.
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-<glances up> "What?!?"
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-Oh.
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-<scribbles another addition to the list> Buns, lots and lots of buns.
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-<thinks> <jots another item down> Condiments.
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-(I practice "safe eating.")
Cheese..lots and lots of cheese. <gotta have cheese dogs>
Onions in sauce! ;)
--
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Robyn
Resident Witchypoo
#1557
Science doesn't burn people at the stake for disagreeing - Vic Sagerquist
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: Kraft's 'Gay Games' PR debacle |
10 Aug 2005 03:05:13 PM |
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In episode <1123698731.649950.325600@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
rob_c_wade2 burst into the room and exclaimed:
Rev. Jerry Falwell
No credibility.
WorldNetDaily.com
*Negative credibility.
--
Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
Alt-atheism website at: http://www.alt-atheism.org
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"Come to think of it, there are already a million
monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet
is NOTHING like Shakespeare!" -- Blair Houghton
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| User: "thomas p" |
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| Title: Re: Kraft's 'Gay Games' PR debacle |
11 Aug 2005 03:19:48 AM |
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On 10 Aug 2005 11:32:11 -0700, wrote:
Kraft's 'Gay Games' PR debacle
Wishful thinking by frightened bigots.
Rev. Jerry Falwell
WorldNetDaily.com
Fallwell and WorldNetDaily! That really says it all.
snip of hate rant.
Thomas P.
"Life must be lived forwards but understood backwards"
(Kierkegaard)
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