Boycott Dilemma

[evilcreamsicle]

Towards the end of last week I was planning for an overnight trip to Philly. I had been invited to a friend's 30th b-day bash and I knew there would be copious amounts of alcohol, so driving home would not be an option. I decided to find a hotel, which, as is usual for any trip to Philly for me, includes either using Priceline or just booking

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[jdnnj]

My guess would be that many housekeepers and other operations staff would be let go before any executives. Then even when top-level execs are let go they still end up with generous severance packages. What if the CEO of your local electric company was Mormon? There are some Mormons who believe that Prob 8 is unfair, seemingly a minority to those who just believe whatever the church tells them to believe. Many Catholic churches also supported 8 so should we be boycotting companies with execs of that faith as well? Should I not listen to Jill Scott because over 70% of black women voted for 8?
Where does it end? I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to find a reason not to patronize just about any corp in this country.
In this downturn I doubt many companies would be able to discern between a boycott and just slower business. So unless you follow up with letters etc they're probably not even going to realize they're being boycotted.

[njbigbear]

I agree with you completely. We were in Philly on Saturday for the Stop the H8 rally at city hall, and a friend mentioned that we need to boycott Marriott, because they are or were owned by Mormons. And I disagree. I can't hold individual Mormons responsible for the actions of the church they belong to, anymore than I can Catholics or any other religion

[evilcreamsicle]

I'm glad you don't hold Catholics responsible. My whole family is, although, I don't think anyone buys into Catholic doctrine (except for me, of course. Gotta love that pope and his prada shoes). In fact, I can't really think of any of my close friends, who are Catholic, buying in to the religion either.

[bahlu]

i think, as a whole, and i'm only speaking for myself here, that if I am aware of a particular company being anti-gay, I won't associate with that product.

Honestly speaking, on the flip side if I've been in a financial jam and the product I need/want is cheaper...I'll purchase it anyways.

but yeah that's my 2 cents on boycotting a company regardless of it's gay/gayfriendly employees despite being an anti gay company

[cpratt]

Both Marriott and Hyatt score a perfect 100 on HRC's Equality Index.

In San Diego, however, local fucktard Doug Manchester owns the big Hyatt downtown, which is reason enough not to stay at that particular Hyatt. If you're going to boycott stuff, it probably makes more sense to make with the microtargeting; most El Pollo Loco locations are fine here, for example, but others... not so much.

[evilcreamsicle]

I had remembered Manchester's position on Prop 8 when deciding on a hotel for this year's San Diego tradeshow. My colleague mentioned the Hyatt. I told her the owner was an evil hater. We won't be staying there.