Walgreens Gives $100,000 in Support of Gay Games - take action here now

[Wondering_Waif]

kaymart:

First and foremost if you and your “partner” have a child they will have a Soul, every human has one. I am not having fun here and futhermore I did not realize you were a Lesbian, I responded to the other person’s post. (Quote-Is Catholic Lesbian one of these Religions…) But being you now brought it up I will no longer respond to you because I do not wish to talk about this subject, or your lifestyle. I just want to let you know all babies have a Soul.

Don’t take offense at this Kaymart, but is your screenname indicative of a place (K-Mart) where you think folks should shop?

 

[Wondering_Waif]

Walgreens Gives $100,000 in Support of Gay Games

Let Walgreens know that their $100,000 donation to the 2006 Gay Games is an indication of their commitment to homosexuality and the activities it encompasses.

					 Your letter will be sent to Walgreens Chairman David W. Bernauer, President Jeffrey Rein, and Vice-President of Marketing, George J. Riedl.

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No, I don’t align myself with any hate groups, regardless of who the hate target is. But thank you for the offer.

 

[Fitz]

Wondering Waif:

No, I don’t align myself with any hate groups, regardless of who the hate target is. But thank you for the offer.

This is not a hate group. It is called the activism. We don’t support things that we consider harmful to society, or in direct violatoin of our religion. Why would we? No one is hateful here.

 

[bones_IV]

Done.

 

[Wondering_Waif]

Fitz:

This is not a hate group. It is called the activism. We don’t support things that we consider harmful to society, or in direct violatoin of our religion. Why would we? No one is hateful here.

No, activism would be taking your money elsewhere quietly, not
screaming with petitions to try to deprive others of something they enjoy. Christian activism is living your life so well that others see for themselves how happy you are and want in on it. You could try to get some kind of event yourself where Gays would feel welcome. That’s activism.

I understand what you’re doing, I was the same way you are when I was younger, but as you grow spiritually, you’ll actually go to the games themselves and find one person to be friends with and to try to understand and love, because you clearly have some issue with Gays in general and you need to work on it.

 

[Wondering_Waif]

buffalo:

Being Catholic means practicing the faith and its teachings. Do you have any intention of ending your relationship? Do you confess this weakness in confession?

Buffalo, being a Catholic means practicing the faith and it’s teachings. Do you have any intention of ending your diatribe against God’s children? Have you asked your priest to help
you see yourself with clear eyes?

 

[buffalo]

Wondering Waif:

No, I don’t align myself with any hate groups, regardless of who the hate target is. But thank you for the offer.

Hate group? What makes you think this is a hate group?

 

[buffalo]

Wondering Waif:

Buffalo, being a Catholic means practicing the faith and it’s teachings. Do you have any intention of ending your diatribe against God’s children? Have you asked your priest to help
you see yourself with clear eyes?

I do practice my faith daily and I do fail daily.

A statement like yours if very accusatory and uninformed.

Catholic teaching is love the sinner, hate the sin. Loving the sinner also means I cannot in good faith aid the sin. True Catholic charity demands fraternal corection. It is this love for others that motivates fraternal correction so that they may achieve heaven.

 

[Wondering_Waif]

buffalo:

I do practice my faith daily and I do fail daily.

A statement like yours if very accusatory and uninformed.

Catholic teaching is love the sinner, hate the sin. Loving the sinner also means I cannot in good faith aid the sin. True Catholic charity demands fraternal corection. It is this love for others that motivates fraternal correction so that they may achieve heaven.

If you think about how you felt when you read my post it may help you to understand how Soul felt when she read yours.

 

[buffalo]

Wondering Waif:

If you think about how you felt when you read my post it may help you to understand how Soul felt when she read yours.

How do you think I felt?

Catholicism is very challenging indeed.

 

[goofyjim]

:yawn:

 

[soulspeak23]

Wondering Waif:

If you think about how you felt when you read my post it may help you to understand how Soul felt when she read yours.

Thank you very much, Wandering Waif.

 

[fix]

Wondering Waif:

No, activism would be taking your money elsewhere quietly, not
screaming with petitions to try to deprive others of something they enjoy.

Depriving others of something they enjoy? That is obfuscation of the highest order. The event legitimizes behavior and political battles that are counter to the natural moral law.

Christian activism is living your life so well that others see for themselves how happy you are and want in on it.

That is one form, there are other forms that depend on the circumstances, issues and times.

You could try to get some kind of event yourself where Gays would feel welcome. That’s activism.

By “gays” do you mean folks who suffer from SSA and try to live their lives in conformity with the natural law or do you mean those who publicly endorse the ideology that is against the truth?

I understand what you’re doing, I was the same way you are when I was younger, but as you grow spiritually, you’ll actually go to the games themselves and find one person to be friends with and to try to understand and love, because you clearly have some issue with Gays in general and you need to work on it.

Really? Perhaps as you grow you will find that allowing our neighbors to skip and dance merrily down the road to hell is no virtue.

 

[Brad]

soulspeak23:

I don’t even see why it’s such a problem. I don’t practice birth control, I will never have an abortion becuase I made some “mistake”. I will, however, be having a child with my partner in the near future, which i’m sure will make you all be happy for me. Even though some of you may not even feel that my child has a soul.
And to say that bringing a child up in a same-sex household is abuse is ridiculous. How can the absence of a penis in my household constitute abuse? If anything, I would say that there is less of a chance of abuse in my household due to that exact fact.
And furthermore, not a single person who responded to my initial post had anything to actually say about the post other than to attack me personally for your own fun. I know i’m outnumbered here, I’m just trying to engage in a conversation. Unless being a lesbian makes me unworthy of conversing with.

Engage in conversation? Cutting all men down to one body part and nothing more is a bit demeaning and thus difficult to keep the conversation going in a positive manner.

If you are Catholic, don’t consider our words regarding raising children in same-sex households. Consider those of the current Pope:

“As experience has shown, the absence of sexual complementarity in these unions creates obstacles in the normal development of children who would be placed in the care of such persons. They would be deprived of the experience of either fatherhood or motherhood. Allowing children to be adopted by persons living in such unions would actually mean doing violence to these children, in the sense that their condition of dependency would be used to place them in an environment that is not conducive to their full human development. This is gravely immoral and in open contradiction to the principle, recognized also in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, that the best interests of the child, as the weaker and more vulnerable party, are to be the paramount consideration in every case.”

I hope you are not going to cut him down to one body part also. I would guess that isn’t being very “catholic”.

 

[Brad]

Wondering Waif:

Buffalo, being a Catholic means practicing the faith and it’s teachings. Do you have any intention of ending your diatribe against God’s children? Have you asked your priest to help
you see yourself with clear eyes?

What diatribe?

 

[soulspeak23]

Brad:

Engage in conversation? Cutting all men down to one body part and nothing more is a bit demeaning and thus difficult to keep the conversation going in a positive manner.

If you are Catholic, don’t consider our words regarding raising children in same-sex households. Consider those of the current Pope:

“As experience has shown, the absence of sexual complementarity in these unions creates obstacles in the normal development of children who would be placed in the care of such persons. They would be deprived of the experience of either fatherhood or motherhood. Allowing children to be adopted by persons living in such unions would actually mean doing violence to these children, in the sense that their condition of dependency would be used to place them in an environment that is not conducive to their full human development. This is gravely immoral and in open contradiction to the principle, recognized also in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, that the best interests of the child, as the weaker and more vulnerable party, are to be the paramount consideration in every case.”

I hope you are not going to cut him down to one body part also. I would guess that isn’t being very “catholic”.

But, really, how is the pope an authority on raising children? That’s like claiming that I can build a sturdy bridge, when I don’t have the slightest clue about architecture or engineering. And if “abuse” is merely having a child exist in a household that does not have exactly one man and one woman, then you have a lot more families to go after than just mine.

 

[Brad]

soulspeak23:

But, really, how is the pope an authority on raising children? That’s like claiming that I can build a sturdy bridge, when I don’t have the slightest clue about architecture or engineering. And if “abuse” is merely having a child exist in a household that does not have exactly one man and one woman, then you have a lot more families to go after than just mine.

The Pope knows because God has revealed His authentic teaching through the Magisterium of the Church, safeguarding 2000+ years of divine revelation. The Pope knows because many Saints have lived the married life and this is not discounted.

Regarding “going after your family”, your desired family situation is not made right because there are many others that are also harmful to children. It simply adds to the problems of neglect that children face regularly.

 

[HappyCatholic01]

Wondering Waif:

No, I don’t align myself with any hate groups, regardless of who the hate target is. But thank you for the offer.

You align yourself with the Catholic Church, are they a hate group too?

Come on, stand up for your faith!

 

[fix]

soulspeak23:

But, really, how is the pope an authority on raising children? That’s like claiming that I can build a sturdy bridge, when I don’t have the slightest clue about architecture or engineering. And if “abuse” is merely having a child exist in a household that does not have exactly one man and one woman, then you have a lot more families to go after than just mine.

The Pope is an expert on morality as he safeguards the truth revealed by Christ to mankind. My question to those who do not accept this is what is their authority other than private opinion and politically motivated “scientific” studies?

 

[dhgray]

buffalo:

Your letter will be sent to Walgreens Chairman David W. Bernauer, President Jeffrey Rein, and Vice-President of Marketing, George J. Riedl.

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I wrote and this was their response:
Subject: A Reply From Walgreens CEO:

Thank you for your e-mail regarding Walgreens role as the official HIV/AIDS Prevention Sponsor for the 2006 Gay Games, an athletic event to be held in Chicago. As you are likely aware, we have heard from many people on this issue.

As Walgreens CEO, I want you to know why we are doing this. Whether you disagree or agree, we think it only fair that you understand our reasoning.

I cannot be more emphatic when I say that this sponsorship has everything to do with healthcare. We are advocating HIV/AIDS awareness. We are taking no position on the gay lifestyle.

This sponsorship allows us to have a presence at the official site of the games and set up portable pharmacies, from which we’ll distribute HIV information and have pharmacists available for counseling. This is an excellent opportunity to raise the awareness of the pharmacists role in the prevention of a disease that is a major threat in the U.S. and a much greater threat in other parts of the world. We have no doubt that our action will save lives.

Walgreens is primarily a healthcare company. As such, most of our corporate contributions go to fight the diseases our patients deal with every day. We are relatively quiet about our giving, but here are some facts. This year, through corporate and employee contributions and in-store promotions, we’ve raised:

• $2.2 million for the American Cancer Society
• $2 million for the American Heart Association
• $2 million for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
• $4 million for health and other basic needs of Katrina victims

We also helped patients directly following Katrina by filling more than $9 million in free prescriptions for evacuees who had no resources and desperately needed their medication. Some part of this will be reimbursed to us; most will not. During Katrina and other disasters, Walgreens steps up to do what is right for our patients health. Through our contributions to education and awareness of HIV/AIDS and other disease states, we are also doing what is right for our patients health.

To repeat - thats what this is about - healthcare. We regret that our action has been painted otherwise by various groups. As a company, our intentions have been radically misrepresented.

Thank you for contacting us.

Sincerely,
Dave Bernauer
Chairman and CEO