Thursday, 07 June 2012
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Christian Moms Boycott JCPenney
By The Closet Calvinist
JCPenney is under pressure now from “One Million Moms,” a Christian group of women, who are angry about a lesbian woman being the new spokesperson.
If we as Christians are to be about sharing the Gospel, what does this boycott do for us? Does it make sharing the Gospel with a lost and hurting world easier? Do you think Ron Johnson will suddenly want to hear the Gospel after having to deal with pressures from yet another Christian boycott? Will Ellen suddenly become straight because she knows a million mothers don’t want her to be the spokesperson for JCPenney? This episode of her show doesn’t make that seem all too promising.
By focusing on these issues we are distracting ourselves from proclaiming the Gospel, and pushing away the very people who need to hear the Gospel proclaimed. If you must boycott, at least do it for their human rights violations rather than over this.
JCP stock was down 3.96% as of close of business today (6/5/12), similar brand stocks had much smaller losses, and even one with a big gain today. The Closet Calvinist does not own any JCP stock, and does not intend to within the next 30 days.
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I believe it is proper to protest the normalization of homosexuality as seen through JC Penny's ads. Here we have a huge corporation using its profits to help destroy America's Christian culture by making sodomy look normal.
But a person's sexual orientation is nobody's business unless they are using it for political purposes which is not appropriate.
This makes me wish I could shop there.
I don't understand how your autocorrect changed "Homophobic" to "Christian" in your title.
@GodlessLiberal@xanga - Hateful bigoted comments about Christians are uncalled for. Why should Christians hand their wonderful culture over to that kind of hate?
this has only made me shop at JCP for EVERYTHING i can possibly get there. they also did the same for Starbucks. i get my coffee there every time :)
@PrisonerxOfxLove@xanga - I think that assuming that every single Christian is in a war against basic human rights for non-heterosexuals is much more hateful and bigoted than the alternative. I was being very generous towards the very large number of moderate/liberal Christians I know and adore and don't discriminate against gay people.
@GodlessLiberal@xanga - Gay marriage is an assault on all human rights. So it is the duty of every Christian to love his neighbor and stand against such injustice.
Marriage is based on human nature. Male and female is integral to human nature. Gay marriage says that gender, male and female is not important. That means that gay rights advocates do not value human nature.Since human rights are based on human nature, and gay marriage denies human nature, therefore gay marriage is an assault on all human rights.
You are no friend to well reasoned arguments so I expect you to deny the reasoning set forth here the same way you deny the reasoning that proves the existence of God.
Nevertheless, reasoning based on human nature is good and just. Your name calling, ridicule and verbal abuse is totally inappropriate.
You need to present an idea and then make a case for it. That's what civilized people do in Christian lands.
To answer the question, tHis kind of boycott does nothing but hurt the transmission of the gospel to non-believers. It also suggests that becoming Christian doesn't make a person better or a more loving member of the human community. Why would someone want to become Christian or even learn about it, if it's members act like this??
@PrisonerxOfxLove@xanga - "You need to present an idea and then make a case for it. That's what civilized people do in Christian lands."
My argument is that you don't belong on Xanga. You've been banned from Revelife and you've been banned from Xanga. Changing accounts don't change the fact that you've engaged in ToS-violating behavior here.
@NotWhereIThought@xanga - Standing up for what is right is what Christians have always done, even if it means getting killed for it.
We have only the author's negative portrayal of Christians and the stories at the links so it would be best to keep our powder dry before making rash judgments about Christians.As much as I'm against same sex marriage and believe marriage is a sacred bond between a man and woman,I think boycotting a company for thinking its ok is pointless.Sure,let fellow Christian's know the stance of a company but let them make up their own minds weither to shop or do business with them.It's a private company and they can do as they please in who they target to sell too.As a Christian if my store (if I was in that business) was boycotted by non Christians,because I was a Christian and telling others not to buy my products I would not like it because I wasn't hurting them in any way but it would not keep me from proclaiming to be a Christian store.And what makes you think if you do business somewhere else,they don' give even more to that certain cause but just don't advertise it.In my opinion boycotting is not a way to WIN people to Christ,which is what our main goal is(and living for God's glory).A private business can sell and advertise however they want.if you don't like their advertising tactics simply don't buy from them.If their business drops off then the market will cause them to rethink their stance and you will not have given Christ a bad name by being offensive yourself.Just some thoughts
Really what a waste of time. Just because you do not believe that it is right does not mean you have the right to force it on other people. This is america. People have the right to love who they want. IT is called freedom. We (my husband and I and a lot of other people) have fought to keep that right. You have the right to believe what you want. They have the right to do the same. PPL like this give christian's a bad name. I am happy to see that Jcpenny took that step. I think that it will gain more positive then neg. in the long run. Personally do I agree with it. Simple NO! But do I judge others who do. Simple again NO! Do I feel we all have the same right.. Simple again. YES!
@Celestial_Teapot@xanga - Natural Law is consistent with Biblical teachings on human nature.
From Genesis 1:27,And God created man to his own image; to the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
And then in Genesis 2:18 & 23, And the Lord God said: It is not good for man to be alone: let us make him a helper like unto himself. And Adam said: This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.
Those two verses show the incredible down to the quantum level bond between man and woman.
God did not say, "It is not good for man to be alone, nevertheless, I, the Lord God am enough for him."
God created man and woman according to his own nature. And man and woman are made for each other.
That is the definition of marriage, Genesis 2:24: They shall be two in one flesh.
Gay marriage makes a total mockery of human nature and creation itself. That is why it is intolerable.
@PrisonerxOfxLove@xanga - No one is going to bother to say, so let me crystalize this for you: You're full of shit.
In every paragraph you write, you make outlandish and unsubtantiated claims that accumulates to some grand conclusion of how your pet partisan cause is supported by Human Rights or God or Christian culture.
Explaining exactly how you're full of shit would mean sorting through and shooting down each of your shitty premises. No one is willing to type paragraphs of text and expend the herculean effort to deconstruct your inconcenquential rants.
@PrisonerxOfxLove@xanga - Sure, people should stand up for what they believe in. But, acting the way these Moms are in regards to homosexuality will turn more people away from your God then bring them to it. If that's OK with you, then so be it.
I love
JCP!!
@NotWhereIThought@xanga - We have to do what is right and let the chips fall where they may. Being afraid of what people may think is not really the basis for just action.
It's all good. The fact that the group has started boycotting JCP has encouraged many others to start shopping there. Props to JCP for not falling to the pressure. And yes, I shop there JUST because of the boycott and because of JCP's support of the human right to marry another human being regardless of gender.
@Celestial_Teapot@xanga - My arguments are straight out Enlightenment philosopher John Lock and the Bible. You may want to address your arguments there instead of being so hateful.
Why should Christians stand aside for people who are so full of hate?
Christians have fought and died for 2000 years in order to make civil society available to all.
The hatred you espouse is the path back to barbarism.
i worked at jcp and let me tell you, the ONLY THING good that came out of all those damn changes that fucked up jcp is getting Ellen as their spokesperson. Who doesn't love Ellen? I mean, come on people, SHE'S ELLEN! She's one of the most fantastic human beings on Earth (to me). An incredible inspiration!
Now all those other bullshit changes JCP did ... they're on their own.
@PrisonerxOfxLove@xanga - It's John Locke with an "e." I've actually read his Second Treatise Concerning Government. I doubt you've ever even glanced at the piece.
@PrisonerxOfxLove@xanga - This has nothing whatsoever to do with fear of what others think. Clearly, your goal isn't to convince other's of the "correctness" of your faith, but rather to force them to comply and live within your rules. Thank G-d you aren't in charge, dude.
@NotWhereIThought@xanga - These are your very words:
But, acting the way these Moms are in regards to homosexuality will turn more people away from your God then bring them to it.That is you saying that the way people act will drive others away from Christianity.
I suppose if atheists can deny the existence of God, they can deny the existence of their own thoughts put to word.
@Celestial_Teapot@xanga - Your choice of hatred over reasoned discourse indicates that whatever you read, you did not understand.