Baptists abandon Disney boycott

[trumad]

The Southern Baptist Convention voted to end its eight-year boycott of the Walt Disney Co. on Wednesday, an implicit acknowledgment that its "family values" campaign failed to bring the entertainment giant to its knees.

Officials of the nation's largest Protestant denomination, completing its two-day annual gathering in Nashville, Tenn., put the best face they could on the vote.

Gene Mims, chairman of the convention committee that presented the Disney resolution to the 11,000 delegates, said the timing seemed right.

"We believe for the boycott to be effective, it had to have a beginning and an ending," he said. "We felt like it was time to end it."

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/custom/tourism/orl-asecbaptists23062305jun23,0,4725733.story?coll=orl-home-headlines

[Sannum]

1. gee--they just now figured this out?

What a bunch of morans:eyes:

[no_hypocrisy]

2. The REAL Reason: Baptists got tired of telling their moppets that

no, they couldn't go visit Mickey Mouse, and Jesus was MUCH better than MM anyway.

Secondary reason: Jeb asked them to. Florida needs the tourism dollars.

[mikeytherat]

3. It's early, and the coffee is still brewing, but...

WTF?

"We believe for the boycott to be effective, it had to have a beginning and an ending," he said. "We felt like it was time to end it."

Correct me if I'm wrong (remember, I'm uncaffeinated), but if you end a boycott, it is no longer a boycott, correct? Or is this one of those, "We're-no-longer-boycotting-but-it's-still-a-boycott-boycotts?"

mikey_the_rat