Re: Walmart sucks
yoel haalmoni (core@rof.net)
Wed, 23 Apr 1997 20:56:34 -0600 (MDT)
>> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 17:16:25 -0600 (MDT)
>> To: errancy@infidels.org
>> From: core@rof.net (yoel haalmoni)
>> Subject: Walmart sucks
>
>> Is it just here, or is Walmart going Christian?
>>
>> We just went to our local Walmart and at the entrance was a "Contemporary
>> Christian Music" stand, full of Christian propaganda. Then, in the video
>> section was a "Family" section full of Christian videos. Then, last but
>> not least, at the exit was a "Focus on the Family" Bible display, full of
>> "recommended family reading", about 10 versions of the Bible, along with
>> books on angels and living a "godly" life. (For those who don't know, Focus
>> on the Family is a Colorado Springs fundamentalist group that supports,
>> among other things, anti gay rights legislation and a "parental authority"
>> ammendment to the Colorado constitution (meaning that parents can do
>> whatever they wish to "discipline" their child.)
>>
>> It was disgusting. I am not shopping there again!
>>
>>
>McDonald 4/23
> Several years ago 7-ll stores displayed magazines such as
>Playboy, etc.,. on their magazine racks where even little children
>were able to view them. I remember when Bible believers started
>boycotting the 7-11 stores until they changed it, unbelievers got all
>up in arms about this. One atheist asked me if I shopped at 7-11 and
>I said "No, and the reason I don't is because I don't like it that
>they display those magazines in the magazine racks." He lectured me
>for 15 minutes on the constitutional right of the freedom of speech
>and the right of those stores to sell those things any place in the
>store they wanted. If those stores had the right to place those
>items down on those magazine racks and sell them, then doesn't
>Walmart have the right to sell whatever they want to sell? If not,
>why not?
yoel-
Walmart has the right to sell what it wants and I have the right to not buy
where I wish not to buy. Christians do not have to buy at 7-11 if they do
not wish to do so for whatever reason.
But there is a difference. I said nothing to the management and I wrote no
letters. I have no desire to force Walmart not to sell Christian whatever.
I just will not shop there for my own reasons. Christians, on the other
hand, tried to get 7-11 to stop selling the item in question. Not only did
they not want to see it- they did not want anyone else to see it either.
This is not a thin line of difference... it is a world of difference.