Jeez, Louise! With all the hoopla over Hallmark’s gay greetings, one would think they were trying to raise Satan himself!
Not only has the American Family Association launched a boycott and have the Concerned Women For America voiced their outrage, but now we hear that multiple Hallmark stores are going to straight up refuse to carry the queer cards:
A manager says seven Hallmark greeting card stores in the Treasure Valley will not carry the company’s new same-sex marriage cards.
Cassi Jacobsen, an assistant manager for the Jordan’s Hallmark store in Nampa’s Karcher Mall, says the family that owns the seven area stores has decided against carrying the new line of greeting cards. She said the owners were out of town and not immediately available for comment.
This is just what the country needs: a commercial civil war. We’re long overdue…
Erick
I hope they are under contract to carry all of Hallmarks products so they are going to have eat their words or go to court. And of course, that Hallmark doesnt wimp out.
Geoffrey
Doesn’t surprise me one bit. The Treasure valley is about 120 miles north of the ‘magic valley’ where I live, and I’m sure the local hallmarks here will follow suit. Idaho…remains bigoted unfortunately.
emb
There are, of course, other greeting card stores. I suggest if your local Hallmark shop refuses to carry the same-sex cards, then shop Elsewhere. And loudly.
Thor
For the activist bunch you could go to. AFA’s Website and use their email form to send a thank you note to Hallmark.
mark
We will PUBLISH a list of cowardly bigotted store owners who refuse to carry OUR marriage cards
mark
Buy several LGBT cards for weddings, we’ll use them soon, and rewarding this risk Hallmark is trying is GOOD BUSINESS
nycmattman
I encourage everyone to take 2 minutes and call or email Hallmark some words of encouragement. Those execs knew that making gay greeting cards would cause the right wing to go nuts and open the door to backlash/financial loss but they did it anyway. I bet they are getting 1,000 angry comments from homophobes for every 1 supportive comment from gay folk and their friends. We need to stand by a company that is doing right by us.
Not every government or business is willing to recognize and value GLBT persons but here’s one company that is. When you’re sending your friends and family down the aisle to get married — gay or straight — make it a Hallmark card!
luger
you fags, why can’t you just realize that you’re all wrong. why should I carry you’re butt pirate cards if i don’t want to? scat action lovers.
Synthespian
#8 – Luger
Your punctuation and grammar needs work. Also, if you’re so anti-queer, why are you on here? ALSO, the opinion of whether gays should marry or not is just that – an opinion, something that cannot be proven right or wrong, just like preference of flavor of ice cream, or the existence of God.
#7 – NYCManhattan
Good ideals and work ethic. Keep it up. There was a posting on here that allows you to send a form letter to Hallmark condemning the entire ordeal, but you can change it to support it. I think it also goes to the fundamentalist Christian website that posted it, so go to it and good luck.
#’s 5, 6 – Mark
Outrage is good, but saying OUR as in exclusion of straight people is just as bad as saying OUR as in exclusion of gay people.
#’s 4-1 – Thor, GMB, Jeffrey, and Erick
Spread the word. Effect change by making noise about it. Shop elsewhere, and shop loudly elsewhere. Good fights don’t come easy.
Myself – Managers of stores that refuse to stock products catering to one of the largest groups of Americans with disopsable incomes are just bad businesspeople, and they will eventually be replaced by better suited individuals.
Rikard
I have been involved with franchises all my life. They have a lot of power to control an owners business. It’s the big, cooperative, supportive organization you pay your franchise fee to cash in on. They also make you live up to silly standards, some that don’t reflect your clientele or local community. I can’t wait to see if Hallmark makes these products required, or optional. The PR nationwide saying that you KNOW your local store will have this kind of product could be a real edge in progressive market. The risk for corporate Hallmark is loosing their base, probably pretty conservative customers. Stores may abandon the franchise, but I doubt they will survive long. They could cash in on initial support from haters, but that kind of support is likely short lived. I am not a fan of big corporate, but they often take the step that proves progressive policies don’t hurt the bottom line.
rick
my local hallmark store burned to the ground and as it hasn’t been rebuilt yet our small town has no idea if they will be carrying the cards or not, but as it is the store where all the closeted types by their gay mags i wouldn’t be surprised if they carry them.
they made the national headlines once because the owners ex-wife used to blow regis philbin in the back seat of limos when he came to visit notre dame while she was still married to the owner.
luger
what makes you look at another guys ass and say, mmm, i’d like to have some of that.? A hairy ass!! when there are plenty of cleanly shaven pussy’s out there! You’d rather stick your nose in a poo hole than a pussy?!! Or your COCK! Ajax won’t take that stuff off you know. I gotta say though, I’m interested in seeing what hallmark comes up with. Scratch n sniff skid marks perhaps? You fags are hilarious.
Iain
This “Luger” character is fascinating, isn’t he? (Ya gotta love a troll) It’s always intrigued me that given the enduring decades-long partnerships of gay and lesbian couples, and the fact that without gay men delivering straights’ babies, teaching straights’ children, farming the land to provide straights with their produce, policing straights’ neighborhoods, piloting straights’ aircraft, bagging straights’ groceries and dying in battle in Iraq to preserve straights’ sense of freedom, without us gay men and lesbian women serving society and country, the straights’ world, and their fragile little notions of society, would collapse. But all the wacky wingnuts can think about is anal sex. Which is very revealing, don’t you think, given that every socio-sexual study I’ve read in Europe and the US has come up with this same stat: that about 6% of males identifying as gay are currently engaging in anal sex on any regular basis, while 8% of heterosexual-identified straights engage in anal sex. In other words, Luger, you twit, it ain’t a gay thing, it’s chiefly a straight thing. And I realized, thinking on this, that straight men and women are phenomenally unsophisticated and unimaginative when it comes to sex. Straight men can’t imagine what to do with their dicks other than STICK THEM INTO SOMETHING. You poor, benighted creatures. No wonder you can’t keep your wives and girlfriends satisfied. Other than that, why are straight men so obsessed with what they THINK (wriongly) gay men do in bed? Most gay men (that is like me, one of the married kind) are too tired from earning a living , making dinner and paying the bills, to give a lot of thought to sexual practices. And before you speculate, yes I live in California, but I married my guy (after 20 years together) in Europe, where I’m from, and where we are a very great deal more grown-up about these things. Oh dear me, Luger, what a sorry little wanker you are. Tell us all, what have you ever DONE with your life, except sit in dark corners playing with yourself and hiding from your mother???