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John1360
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To Whom it May Concern:
I heard about this two years ago during the Christmas (Advent!) season, but couldn’t find proof and the people I contacted at Toys R Us denied it. What they were denying was that they sold a Ouija board. There was talk of a boycott, but in the face of denials from Toys R Us and a lack of proof, the boycott went away.
After an email from an HLI supporter, I searched “ouija” on the Toys R Us site on January 29, 2010 and here is a screen shot of what I found:
<<ToysRUsOuija.png>>
Yes, that’s a cute little pink ouija board for girls “8 years and up”, and what I suppose is a normal one, also for kids 8 and up. Read the comments section. People love it because they are creeped out by what they hear from “the other side”. Here’s the link: toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3107661. We’ve had problems reaching it through this link. You can go to the Toys R Us site and search “ouija” if the link doesn’t work.
For those of you who don’t know, NO ONE should be messing with ouija boards, especially Christians who should know better. They are not toys, they are not safe; they are what they say they are, a portal to talk to “spirits” that you really don’t want to deal with. No responsible parent would want his or her child messing with this, and they need to be thrown out of houses and destroyed if you already have one. Now. And tell a priest that someone in your family has been using a ouija board as soon as possible.
Now let’s boycott both Hasbro for making these, and Toys R Us for marketing them to children and parents (and for Toys R Us previously denying that they sold them). If it disappears from the site again, we have the screen shot and we put our full weight behind our claim that it was on the site. Here is one boycott site: boycottowl.com/Hasbro/84, but obviously there is room for someone with the time and ability to really get behind this with a larger campaign on Facebook and elsewhere (we have too many other projects going to give this the attention it deserves).
No Christian family should support either of these companies with their money. Anyone who likes can contact me to verify any of this.
Stephen Phelan
Communications Manager
Human Life International
I heard about this two years ago during the Christmas (Advent!) season, but couldn’t find proof and the people I contacted at Toys R Us denied it. What they were denying was that they sold a Ouija board. There was talk of a boycott, but in the face of denials from Toys R Us and a lack of proof, the boycott went away.
After an email from an HLI supporter, I searched “ouija” on the Toys R Us site on January 29, 2010 and here is a screen shot of what I found:
<<ToysRUsOuija.png>>
Yes, that’s a cute little pink ouija board for girls “8 years and up”, and what I suppose is a normal one, also for kids 8 and up. Read the comments section. People love it because they are creeped out by what they hear from “the other side”. Here’s the link: toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3107661. We’ve had problems reaching it through this link. You can go to the Toys R Us site and search “ouija” if the link doesn’t work.
For those of you who don’t know, NO ONE should be messing with ouija boards, especially Christians who should know better. They are not toys, they are not safe; they are what they say they are, a portal to talk to “spirits” that you really don’t want to deal with. No responsible parent would want his or her child messing with this, and they need to be thrown out of houses and destroyed if you already have one. Now. And tell a priest that someone in your family has been using a ouija board as soon as possible.
Now let’s boycott both Hasbro for making these, and Toys R Us for marketing them to children and parents (and for Toys R Us previously denying that they sold them). If it disappears from the site again, we have the screen shot and we put our full weight behind our claim that it was on the site. Here is one boycott site: boycottowl.com/Hasbro/84, but obviously there is room for someone with the time and ability to really get behind this with a larger campaign on Facebook and elsewhere (we have too many other projects going to give this the attention it deserves).
No Christian family should support either of these companies with their money. Anyone who likes can contact me to verify any of this.
Stephen Phelan
Communications Manager
Human Life International
