Gays Create Blacklist in CA

[Silver]

again... economic boycotts are hardly "thugish" tactics and certainly not in the same league as gunning down abortion doctors.

You go on and on about "gunning down abortion doctors" like it happens often....what was it....once? twice? three times? in the past 100 years...

Course, once is once too many times, but give it a freekin' break....

[retiredman]

You go on and on about "gunning down abortion doctors" like it happens often....what was it....once? twice? three times? in the past 100 years...

Course, once is once too many times, but give it a freekin' break....

economic boycotts are perfectly acceptable means of political protest.

gunning down abortion doctors are not.

[Kathianne]

Flames, vulgarities, nasties moved to Cage.

[5stringJeff]

Economic boycotts are certainly acceptable. However, they don't work. Blacks have boycotted South Carolina for about a decade, after the "controversy" about the Confederate Flag on top of the State House. The Southern Baptists boycotted Disney for a while, but recently called it off. Neither entity suffered economically, and I dare say there are more blacks and Baptists than gays.

[Hull]

Economic boycotts are certainly acceptable. However, they don't work. Blacks have boycotted South Carolina for about a decade, after the "controversy" about the Confederate Flag on top of the State House. The Southern Baptists boycotted Disney for a while, but recently called it off. Neither entity suffered economically, and I dare say there are more blacks and Baptists than gays.

Not only do they not work, but for every person that's going to boycott according to their agenda, there are people that will go out of their way then to support said business or entity. If I were in California, I'd go out of my way to support the companies listed by the homos.

[LiberalNation]

They canwork if your business is small enough, as just one type of customer base and that base happens to be the people boycotting you.

[Yurt]

They canwork if your business is small enough, as just one type of customer base and that base happens to be the people boycotting you.

would you consider it discrimination if someone did not hire a blacklisted worker? if you don't agree with homosexual marriage and you get fired or not hired for that, do you support that?

[LiberalNation]

Firing no, but it does happen if you profess strong political beliefs at work that are opposit to those of your bosses, they just don't say that's the reason they are firing you.

[retiredman]

would you consider it discrimination if someone did not hire a blacklisted worker? if you don't agree with homosexual marriage and you get fired or not hired for that, do you support that?

I certainly don't.

I do, however, fully support the gay community bringing whatever economic pressure they have to bear on persons and businesses that bankrolled Yes on 8

[5stringJeff]

They canwork if your business is small enough, as just one type of customer base and that base happens to be the people boycotting you.

That's an extremely rare situation. I doubt many of these businesses would cater primarily to the gay community; on the contrary, I would have expected such businesses to have opposed Prop 8.