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Originally posted by Quikngruvn:
Religious fanatics? I haven't heard of any of the hundreds of religious denominations in the US declaring a jihad (a Holy War) on anyone or anybody. With the possible exception of Southern Baptists, who tried to boycott Disney because they offered the same corporate benefits to same-sex couples as to married couples. (These are the same people who, in a Sunday sermon, told the congregation my stepdaughter attended that if they watched the Super Bowl on Sunday, they'd go to Hell.) The rest of us laugh at the Southern Baptists.
Regarding the Disney boycott: Disney portrays itself as upright and "family-friendly." The boycott was intended to draw attention to various immoral practices by Disney, including but not limited to: increasing participation in the "gay agenda" including gay pride parades down Main Street in Disneyworld, movies by Disney-owned companies that were R-rated without having some redeeming social reason for being that way (unlike, for example, Schindler's List), increasing hostility to religion and increasing sexual content in movies intended for children. I could go on, but my point is that Quikngruvn is oversimplifying and misrepresenting the Southern Baptist position.
Regarding the Sunday sermon: My guess is that the preacher said something like "it's a sin to skip church in favor of the Super Bowl."
[This message has been edited by dmm (edited 23 July 2001).]
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