Prop8 Boycott List- Page 5

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 11/16/08 at 5:38pm

I agree PRS. I think some feel it was a last straw in a series of moments. Others--a harsh contrast to the joy of electing Obama.

I think it's because this is the first time in all of those cases that the rights were there and then stripped away. We didn't react this way when the same state had the same vote in 2000.

We should have when the first state did it. When DOMA was signed. Etc Etc. Thank God we are here now doing it now.

Here and now.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 11/16/08 at 6:49pm

Doubletree Hotel Santa Ana/Orange County Airport
201 East MacArthur Blvd.
Santa Ana, California 92707
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
1-800-222-TREE
[e-mail]



To Whom It May Concern:

A video was posted on You Tube on November14th, 2008, which shows the supporters of Proposition 8 standing behind a podium from your Doubletree Hotel in Santa Ana, with your logo proudly on display.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU8uuPhQog0

This video is filled with lies, and many libelous statements.

I am asking that you have them remove the video from You Tube, as it makes it look as if your hotel is promoting their brand of bigotry. If that is the case, then I will no longer be spending money at any of your hotels.

Please let me know how you plan on dealing with this situation

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/16/08 at 7:20pm

Q, I don't think it's Franklin Templeton. To the best of my research, I think a dude named Templeton who was the son of the man who sold Templeton funds when they merged with Franklin. I don't think he's connected to Franklin Templeton at all, which is another reason to be very wary of these boycott lists.

John Templeton/Josephine Templeton, Bryn Mawr, PA
300 Conshohocken State Road, Suite 500, West Conshohocken, PA 19428 • Tel: [phone] • Web: www.templeton.org and www.letfreedomringusa.com
$1,100,000
John Templeton, Chairman and President of the John Templeton Foundation, gave: $450,000 on 8/19 (to NOM), $450,000 on 8/19 (to Protect Marriage), $100,000 on 10/8/08 and $100,000 on 10/29/08.

John Templeton, Jr. is the son of the late John Marks Templeton. John, Sr. was born in Winchester, Tennessee in 1912, and made his fortune through the Templeton Funds that he started and later sold in 1992 to Franklin Group for $440 million. John, Jr. is now the President of the John Templeton Foundation which has nearly $1.5 billion in assets, and gave away $70 million in grants in 2007. The Foundation funds research into “life’s biggest questions,” including science, religion, ultimate reality and wisdom.

John Templeton, Jr. founded and is Chairman of 'Let Freedom Ring, Inc.' (www.letfreedomringusa.com), a far right think-tank that he set up in 2004 with a $1 million donation. [14] He is a member of the Cradle of Liberty Council of the Boy Scouts of America, which made news when they were forced to leave their Philadelphia headquarters due to a conflict between Philadelphia’s non-discrimination policy, and that of the Boy Scouts, which allows discrimination of gays. Legal proceedings continue on the case.
Californians Against Hate

[Q]

Posted: 11/16/08 at 8:14pm

Thanks, PRS! And yes, yet another reason to question all this information being tossed around.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 12/8/08 at 5:30pm

This Just In!

"Frontiers magazine learned Saturday Marjorie Christoffersen is stepping down as a manager at the Los Angeles restaurant El Coyote. Bill Schoeppner, a fellow manager at El Coyote who has been with the restaurant for 26 years, told Frontiers Christoffersen was also resigning as a member of El Coyote's board of directors.

"She no longer works here," Schoeppner said on Saturday. "She just told me tonight."

Christoffersen created a firestorm of controversy for the 77-year-old L.A. institution after local blogs broke the news she had donated $100 to the Yes on Proposition 8 campaign. Long a popular destination for the LGBT community for its cheap Mexican food and generous Margaritas, El Coyote found itself the target of boycotts and demonstrations after Christoffersen's donation went public. In a press conference hosted by the restaurant days after the news of the donation broke, Christoffersen tried to explain her donation did not have to do with animus for gay and lesbian people, but was instead tied to her Mormon faith. Christoffersen did not apologize for the donation and did not indicate she would support any No on 8 organization."

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/8/08 at 5:51pm

Wow. I guess she "quit" her family too, then?