Wal-Mart issues: 'Brokeback Mountain' and RU-486

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Wal-Mart issues: ‘Brokeback Mountain’ and RU-486

Many share a concern regard two recent decisions by Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Wal-Mart is displaying large posters just inside the entrance to their stores for advanced copies of the homosexual love movie, “Brokeback Mountain.”

Recently, officials with Wal-Mart announced the company will stock the emergency contraceptive drug known as the “morning-after pill” in all of its more than 3,700 pharmacies nationwide. The drug also known as Plan B."

Wal-Mart is blocking emails from OneMillionMoms and OneMillionDads.

Click Here to read Wal-Mart: No Longer Worthy of Family Trust. This commentary gives an in-depth look at Wal-Mart’s downward spiral away from traditional family values.

To take action on these issues, we recommend the following actions:

1. Call Wal-Mart corporate headquarters toll-free at XXXXXX or email them using their online customer feedback form at www.walmart.com. Tell them you are quickly loosing respect and trust for the Wal-Mart name and will pause to consider other retailers for the products you buy on your next shopping trip.

2. Personally speak to you local Wal-Mart manager. Let him or her know you are disappointed in their decision to promote homosexuality at the front of their stores. You may choose to shop elsewhere until the display is removed from the store.

3. Please forward this email to your friends and family and encourage them to join OneMillionMoms.com.
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                 Sincerely,

                                      Donald E. Wildmon, Chairman
OneMillionMoms.com
P.S. Please forward this to your family and friends!
 
Let me get this straight: you can’t buy *Maxim Magazine *or Rolling Stone, or buy cd’s with bad language because it’s a “family friendly store,” but I cna go buy the morning after pill and a copy of *Brokeback Mountain? *How hypocritical is that?
 
Having Fun in Wal Mart

I’m not suggesting you actually try any of these.
  1. Get 24 boxes of douche and randomly put them in people’s carts when they aren’t looking.
  2. Set all the alarm clocks in Housewares to go off at 5-minute intervals.
  3. Make a trail of tomato juice on the floor leading to the rest rooms.
  4. Walk up to an employee and tell him/her in an official tone, ‘Code 3’ in housewares … And see what happens.
  5. Go to the Service Desk and ask to put a bag of M&M’s on layaway.
  6. Move a ‘CAUTION - WET FLOOR’ sign to a carpeted area.
  7. Set up a tent in the camping department and tell other shoppers you’ll invite them in if they’ll bring pillows from the bedding department.
  8. When a clerk asks if they can help you, begin to cry and ask ‘Why can’t you people just leave me alone?’
  9. Look right into the security camera; use it as a mirror, and pick your nose.
  10. While handling guns in the hunting department, ask the clerk if he knows where the anti- depressants are.
  11. Dart around the store suspiciously, loudly humming the “Mission Impossible” theme.
  12. In the auto department, practice your “Madonna look” using different size funnels.
  13. Hide in a clothing rack and when people browse through, say “PICK ME!”
  14. When an announcement comes over the loud speaker, assume the fetal position and scream “NO! NO! It’s those voices again!!!”
(And last, but not least!)
  1. Go into a fitting room and shut the door and wait a while; And, then, yell, very loudly, “There is no toilet paper in here!”
Again…I’m not suggesting anyone actually try these antics.
 
I can’t stand Wal-Mart. It’s unpleasant just going in there. I’ll never go to Wal-Mart again.

P.S. This thread is horribly mislabeled. The morning-after pill and Mifepristone (RU-486) are very different drugs.

P.P.S. I find it rather humorous that a man is Chairman of One Million Moms.
 
Wal-Mart is risking alienating a lot of its customers if they keep behaving they way they do. Most of the opposition to Wal-Mart doesn’t come from the religious right; it comes from isolationists and political liberals who think they are cruel when it comes to how they treat their workers. A lot of people feel that Wal-Mart’s business model of cheap goods at low prices is bad for the country.

If the religious right teamed up with Wal-Mart’s other critics we could force it to change its ways or lose a lot of money. Pro-life advocates should try to find ways to force Wal-Mart out of areas where people don’t’ really want it as a punishment for what it is doing. Prominent members of the religious right and pro-life advocates should try to organize a boycott of Wal-Mart and ford.
 
Those of you who have been following the situation with Wal-Mart and RU-486 know that they did not want to carry it but caved in when faced with lawsuits and other penalties for violating various state laws. If you’re going to boycott Wal-Mart for this, then it follows that you should include Eckerds, CVS and Walgreen’s. Then, the problem will become one of finding a place to purchase your own prescription medicines.

Essentially the same thing can be said about the movie. Boycott everybody that sells or rents it. Period. Don’t single out one store. The difference is that your health is not affected if you don’t buy a new TV or whatever from Wal-Mart, Circuit City or Best Buy.

Those of us on limited or fixed incomes really appreciate being able to save fifteen or twenty percent on our grocery bills. Wal-Mart has been a real blessing for some of us.
 
I think there’s a serious foul-up here. Mifepristone (RU-486) is not the same as the morning-after pill. One Million Moms seems to have seriously messed this up on their website.
 
I like Walmart. I won’t be joining in the protest or boycott. I certainly hope I don’t excommunicated for this position. I too am also on a low income and Walmart benefits me. We can’t stop doing business with the world. I think St. Paul addressed this somewhere in his letters.
 
I’m far from an expert on boycotts, but here are a couple of things to keep in mind if any boycotts are to be made or attempted:
  1. Is a certain segment of the population affected and how big is the segment of the population affected?
IMO, the group or individuals starting the boycott must be actually affected and not just offended. Look at the African-Americans’ boycott of the Montgomery Transportation system back in the 1950’s. They weren’t just offended; by being required to sit at the back of a bus and give up front seats to white, they were being unreasonably restricted in their right to use public transportation.
  1. How big is the company that is the target of a boycott?
Again, IMO, I would think that a boycott would be more successful if the company in question is local or is limited in size if beyond local. The above mentioned boycott only targeted Montgomery buses and other public transportation. Wal-Mart, on the other hand, is a much bigger company.
  1. How big would the participation in the boycott be?
If a boycott is to be successful, it would have to take the participation of a vast majority, if not everybody of the affected group to make it work, IMO. If only a handful boycott, then the chances of the boycott being successful are nil.

Once again, I don’t claim to be an expert, but those are the three things I think need to be addressed if any boycott is to be attempted. As bad as Wal-Mart’s decision to allow RU-486 and the Brokeback Mountain ads are, it doesn’t really affect anybody one way or another.
 
Pax vobiscum!

Like a couple other posters here said, RU-486 is COMPLETELY different from the Morning After Pill, which is what Wal-Mart carries. The Morning-After Pill is a high dose of birth control and acts to prevent ovulation. It also makes the uterus “slippery”, so to speak, so that if a woman has already ovulated and has a fertilized egg, it cannot implant into the uteran wall and she will have an abortion without ever knowing she was ever pregnant.

RU-486 is taken when the fertilized egg has already implanted in the uterus. Normally, as far as I know, it is used much later than that, however. What it does is seals off the uterus from recieving any nutrients so that the baby essentially starves to death. Then the baby is expelled anytime within two weeks (so this could happen anywhere, like when the woman is at work she could go into labor). The big problem with this pill (aside from the fact that it murders the baby) is that it is a rather high level of toxins, which is how it works to kill the baby. So, it can also kill the mother (though this doesn’t happen often), and two more women just died from it because they were putting toxins into their bodies.

Two terrible pills that can both cause abortions, but two TOTALLY different pills.

In Christ,
Rand
 
The Morning after pill (MAP)will be available in every Wall-Mart in every state.

The Morning After Pill is available to any age (yes a 10 or 12 year old) in seven states-California, Washington,Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Alaska, and in some stores in New Mexico without a prescription, or parental notification. It will be over the counter from the pharmacy desk. Maine, Massachusetts, California, and New Hampshire legislators voted it over the counter… Other states received it because of a governor and a loop -hole called a collaborative practice.

Letters need to be written. Wal-mart just caved when they lost the lawsuit in Massachusetts which now requires them to carry and dispense to all ages without a prescription].Wal-mart hadn’t caried the morning after pill in any store in any state up to that point.

Wal-mart cited that they just didn’t want to carry this pill, not religious reasons. Where are their rights?They knew other lawsuits would be coming from the six other states.
 
Telephoned 1-800-wal-mart today to comment and actually got a person not a voice-mail l A letter is always good:

Mr. H. Lee Scott, Jr.
President & CEO
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
702 SW 8th St., Bentonville, AR 72716
Phone: 479-273-4000; Fax: 479-273-4053
 
Dude. Brokeback Mountain was a GREAT movie. I loved it. And by the way, The Morning-After Pill is NOT an abortion. What it does is prevent the woman form ever getting pregnant in the first place. If there was never an embryo, how could there have been an abortion?
Look it up.

I’ve always hated Wal-Mart for various reasons, mostly the way they treat their workers and put others out of business, but to boycott them for selling a much-loved movie and selling contraceptives is just plain stupid.
 
WearingAFedora said:
Dude. Brokeback Mountain was a GREAT movie. I loved it. And by the way, The Morning-After Pill is NOT an abortion. What it does is prevent the woman form ever getting pregnant in the first place. If there was never an embryo, how could there have been an abortion?
Look it up.

I’ve always hated Wal-Mart for various reasons, mostly the way they treat their workers and put others out of business, but to boycott them for selling a much-loved movie and selling contraceptives is just plain stupid.
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Kinda late lol, but I agree completely.
🙂
 
I thought all you guys didn’t shop there already because they sold contraceptives? Do you keep a long list of prohibited stores on your fridge to keep it all straight?
 
WearingAFedora said:
Dude. Brokeback Mountain was a GREAT movie. I loved it. And by the way, The Morning-After Pill is NOT an abortion. What it does is prevent the woman form ever getting pregnant in the first place. If there was never an embryo, how could there have been an abortion?
Look it up.

I’ve always hated Wal-Mart for various reasons, mostly the way they treat their workers and put others out of business, but to boycott them for selling a much-loved movie and selling contraceptives is just plain stupid.
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Dude. “Emergency contraception”, “plan B” & “morning after pills” do sometimes cause early chemical abortions before the woman even knows she is pregnant. Regular dose oral contraception does the same thing.

They have 3 mechanisms of action. They prevent ovulation, but breakthrough ovulation does still occur. That means an egg is still released occasionally even though a woman is on the pill. The pill also thickens the cervical mucus to slow sperm’s motility. The 3rd mechanism of action is to severely thin the lining of the woman’s uterus. When an egg is released & fertilized, it is unable to implant in the thin lining & dies. Experts disagree on how often it happens, but they all agree it happens.
 
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