Boycotts

The American Family Association, along with a number of “conservative” groups, advocates a series of boycotts against companies for their contribution to or business with homosexual groups, including the Gay Games. One of AFA’s directors explains that the Gay Games brings together a lot of people and “With this many people, we expect an increase in the bar scene, and we expect a lot of anonymous sexual encounters." Clearly they did not think this thing through. To be true to this objection, the AFA cannot bank anywhere at all. Take the Olympics for example; they distributed over 70,000 free condoms to 11,000 athletes in Sydney. We can surmise that more than a few were used for their intended purpose during the Games. Chances are also that some of these encounters were between people of the same sex. So, they cannot bank with anyone who contributes to the Olympics. There may be some banks that do not, but they all do business with one professional organization or two. Almost every profession has at least one conference. I have been to a conference or two in my days and I can testify to the universal truth that the two most popular activities in conferences are drinking and sex. So, banks that make donations to any professional organization or members of such groups are out too. Now all the AFA and other groups’ member can bank nowhere, hire no professional, and cannot be a professional. This will create a horrible deprivation on AMA members. As a humanitarian, I must sound an alarm for this upcoming disaster.