6.22.2005

Southern Baptists End Disney Boycott

What's not said here is that the boycott was a dismal failure, even among their own brethren who continued to go there on vacation.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Southern Baptists ended an eight-year boycott of the Walt Disney Co. for violating "moral righteousness and traditional family values" in a vote on the final day of the denomination's annual convention Wednesday.

"We believe for the boycott to be effective, it had to have a beginning and an ending," said Gene Mims, chairman of the Southern Baptist Convention committee that put the Disney resolution before some 12,000 members at the meeting.

SBC delegates also approved a resolution that encourages parents to investigate their children's public schools to determine whether they are too accepting of homosexuality.
Unfortunately, these folks consider any rhetoric that doesn't pronounce it's good to beat the holy shit out of a gay person as "too accepting of homosexuality".

I'd love to hear what Jesus thinks of fundamentalist; I suspect He doesn't like them one damned bit. All that intolerance and hatred seems to disagree with His teachings, you know.