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Baptists call off 8-year Disney boycott
16-million-strong group started boycott in '97 because Disney offered benefits to same-sex partners.
June 22, 2005: 4:28 PM EDT
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest U.S. Protestant denomination, ended its eight-year-old boycott of the Walt Disney Co. Wednesday and said it had made its point.
The 16-million-member group began the boycott in 1997 to protest Disney giving benefits to same-sex partners of employees, and at that time urged members to boycott the company's parks and products.
But the group's annual convention Wednesday passed a resolution saying "The boycott has communicated effectively our displeasure concerning products and policies that violate moral righteousness and traditional family values, and for a boycott to be effective, it must be specifically targeted and of limited duration."
In declaring an end to the action it urged Disney to "serve the families of America by providing only those products that affirm traditional family values."
It also said Southern Baptists should "practice continued discernment regarding all entertainment products from all sources."
Disney had no immediate comment.
Church officials had earlier noted that the American Family Association, a Christian group which monitors media content, had ended its own Disney boycott in May.
They said that group decided to step back because of other more pressing matters involving U.S. culture and "positive signs" at Disney including the planned resignation of company chief Michael Eisner.
The meeting also passed a resolution urging parents to monitor public schools for influences of "homosexual activists and their allies."
Parents and churches should do research and monitor entertainment and educational influences on children through access to textbooks, curricula and teachers, and decide whether public, private or home schooling is most appropriate, it said.
"Homosexual activists and their allies are devoting substantial resources and using political power to promote the acceptance among schoolchildren of homosexuality as a morally legitimate lifestyle," the statement said.
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http://money.cnn.com/2005/06/22/news/fortune500/disney_boycott.reut/index.htm
16-million-strong group started boycott in '97 because Disney offered benefits to same-sex partners.
June 22, 2005: 4:28 PM EDT
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest U.S. Protestant denomination, ended its eight-year-old boycott of the Walt Disney Co. Wednesday and said it had made its point.
The 16-million-member group began the boycott in 1997 to protest Disney giving benefits to same-sex partners of employees, and at that time urged members to boycott the company's parks and products.
But the group's annual convention Wednesday passed a resolution saying "The boycott has communicated effectively our displeasure concerning products and policies that violate moral righteousness and traditional family values, and for a boycott to be effective, it must be specifically targeted and of limited duration."
In declaring an end to the action it urged Disney to "serve the families of America by providing only those products that affirm traditional family values."
It also said Southern Baptists should "practice continued discernment regarding all entertainment products from all sources."
Disney had no immediate comment.
Church officials had earlier noted that the American Family Association, a Christian group which monitors media content, had ended its own Disney boycott in May.
They said that group decided to step back because of other more pressing matters involving U.S. culture and "positive signs" at Disney including the planned resignation of company chief Michael Eisner.
The meeting also passed a resolution urging parents to monitor public schools for influences of "homosexual activists and their allies."
Parents and churches should do research and monitor entertainment and educational influences on children through access to textbooks, curricula and teachers, and decide whether public, private or home schooling is most appropriate, it said.
"Homosexual activists and their allies are devoting substantial resources and using political power to promote the acceptance among schoolchildren of homosexuality as a morally legitimate lifestyle," the statement said.
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http://money.cnn.com/2005/06/22/news/fortune500/disney_boycott.reut/index.htm
