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My blogging colleague Scott Wooledge has some fun.

“I’ve known for a while that the founders of Starbucks were left-of-center. But I convinced myself that, so long as they stayed out of public policy, I could remain a customer. Sadly, this is no longer the case. What is most frustrating about Starbucks’ liberal support is that it totally disregards the traditional views of many customers and staff members. …

“This hairdresser is going around telling other gay people operating businesses to not do business with the governor simply because she agrees with the historic definition of marriage between a man and a woman. This is all about homosexual arrogance and homosexual activist power and using the media to harass people of faith who simply stand for traditional marriage.” – …

The American Family Association has just posted their Home Depot Boycott Pledge to the reader forums at Free Republic. The comments there are as you’d expect.

The boycott is back on. Heh.

World Net Daily is promoting a boycott of Girl Scout cookies over the organization’s policy of allowing transgender girls to join. After controversy arose over the potential admission of Colorado 7-year-old Bobby Montoya last month, The Girl Scouts of Colorado released a statement explaining, “We accept all girls in kindergarten through 12th grade as members. If a child identifies as …

The Parents Television Council says it will demand that advertisers refuse to sponsor America’s Got Talent due to last week’s hiring of Howard Stern as a judge. “It’s an act of desperation on behalf of the NBC network,” suggests Dan Isett, director for public policy at the watchdog group. “[The show] trails badly in the ratings across the board, and …

Right Wing Watch reports that the online travel site Kayak has joined Lowe’s in caving to the Florida Family Association. Yesterday the company, citing concerns about “specific content” (which it didn’t identify) admitted that it had joined Lowe’s in pulling ads from the show. Kayak later posted an explanation of its actions, but instead of simply apologizing and reinstating the …

Hotel kingpin and Prop 8 backer Doug Manchester has purchased San Diego’s Union-Tribune for $110 million. And locals can expect some big changes. What happens when that brash, bold, confrontational man steps into the newsroom of the region’s largest newspaper? John Lynch, the former local radio executive who will become the newspaper’s new president and CEO, offered a preview Thursday …

Equality Matters reports that Chick-Fil-A donated almost $2 million to anti-gay groups in 2009. The donations were made through the company’s charitable arm, the Winshape Foundation. Over half of the money went to the Marriage & Family Legacy Fund, a group devoted to opposing same-sex marriage. Other groups on Chick-Fil-A’s gift list: Focus On The Family, The Fellowship of Christian …

The National Gay Pilots Association says everybody should chill until we get the entire story about Southwest Airlines and actress Leisha Hailey. Via press release: The National Gay Pilots Association (NGPA) opposes any premature boycott measures against Southwest Airlines until we hear all sides. Southwest Airlines has strict non-discrimination policies in place and is actively working with NGPA and other …

The American Family Association has been on a boycottin’ fuh-renzy over the last week. First it was Ben & Jerry’s, then the AARP, and now – Dancing With The Stars. But they are totally not economic terrorists! At all!

Two AFA boycotts in the same day. Remember, we’re the fascists trying to tell people what to think and how to live their lives.

Citing PayPal’s mission statement that its service may not be used to distribute money intended to promote hatred and violence, the LGBT rights group All Out is demanding that PayPal sever its relationships with anti-gay hate groups. This campaign has Porno Pete LaBarbera positively quivering with rage, as PayPal has emailed him to inquire just what he does with his …

When anti-gay Christianist hate groups call for nationwide boycotts of LGBT-friendly companies, that is a righteous use of the free market in order to preserve morality, marriage, family, and the American way. But when GAY groups use or threaten the use of a boycott, THAT is homofascist intimidation, intolerance, bullying, and an attempt to deny the freedom of speech. Just …

That took them long enough,.

Last week New York’s most widely-read Spanish-language newspaper, El Diario, published an editorial supporting marriage equality and obliquely criticizing state Sen. Ruben Diaz for his upcoming anti-gay rally. Yesterday Diaz announced that he will be spearheading a boycott of the paper because of their supposedly anti-Christian positions. The Newspaper, El Diario La Prensa, calls itself “The Champion of the Hispanics.” …

The American Family Association has relaunched their boycott of Home Depot for supporting the dastardly homosexual agenda. Home Depot’s website now states the company’s support for “Out and Equal Workplace Advocates,” a gay political activist organization heavily promoting legalization of gay marriage and gays in the military, and celebrating activities such as Transgender Remembrance Day. AFA has repeatedly asked The …

Citing his opposition to LGBT rights, GLAAD has issued a call to boycott all of Donald Trump’s businesses. In addition to GLAAD’s boycott, AOL News reports that the International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association will decide next month whether to remove Trump’s holdings from their list of recommended properties. According to AOL’s story, gay travel agents are already steering their …

Days after Donald Trump announced that gay people deserve no civil rights at all, some activists are calling for a boycott of his businesses. In New York, home to one of the largest gay and lesbian communities in the U.S., Trump’s comments may end up biting him in the ass-ets. “He’s an extreme bigot,” says Allen Roskoff, who was the …