Pepsi Urged To Drop Gay Ties

[WillParkinson]

Pepsi Urged To Drop Gay Ties

(Dallas, Texas) A PepsiCo shareholder who describes himself as “a former gay” urged the company to “stop using shareholder profits to fund anti-heterosexual groups” at the firm’s annual shareholders meeting in Dallas.

Greg Quinlan, a member of the conservative American Family Associated affiliated group Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays, presented a motion asking stockholders to stop donating money to groups that he said ” aim to discredit the ex-gay community.”

In his speech to shareholders, Quinlan described the Human Rights Campaign and Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) as “gay organizations that hate people like me.”

Over the past two years, Pepsi has given $500,000 to the Human Rights Campaign and $500,000 to PFLAG.

“By funding PFLAG, PepsiCo promotes fear and hostility against the ex-gay community and our supporters, and spreads lies about ex-gay organizations. Diversity does not mean funding one organization so that it can attack another,” said Quinlan.

http://www.365gay.com/news/pepsi-urged-to-drop-gay-ties/

[MADem]

What? Pepsi has "gay ties?" You don't say!!!

I don't particularly care what brand of brown cola we buy--coke, pepsi, cheap-o store brand... makes no diff to me.

We don't drink that much of the stuff, anyway.

But I'll have to thank Quinlan fellow for pointing this fact about Pepsi out to me. I'll make it a point to select Pepsi henceforth when I'm in the market for a brown cola!

[Hassin Bin Sober]

6. It must be all that sugar in their tanks.

[Sebastian Doyle]

7. well, right now you can get Pepsi with gay ties AND real sugar!

So there, now you got another reason to drink it!



... Mountain Dew too.

It's good stuff. And that's coming from a former long time Coke drinker (who gave up the HFCS but still has the occasional Mexican Coke - also with sugar)

[MADem]

9. The rare times we drink it, we drink the diet crap.

Probably better off drinking water. But I imagine that would take me back to childhood, the stuff with the sugar!

[MrModerate]

1. I used to think that these fora where minority stockholders could challenge . . .

corporate leadership were an unmixed good.

I no longer think so. When such events are used as platforms for dirt stupid antiliberty emissions of this character, then their usefulness needs to be questioned.

[madrchsod]

2. gay ties on Zazzle !

http://www.zazzle.com/gay+ties

maybe she wears her gay ties in her other life

[xchrom]

3. i wondered where she bought them. nt

[friedgreentomatoes]

4. somebody please explain to me

how Pro-Gay = Anti-heterosexual

[Iggo]

5. Oops...

Already done. And funnier, too...lol.

[Political Tiger]

8. "anti-heterosexual"

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Lex]

10. just what in the heck are "anti-heterosexual groups" -- laughable propaganda

again from the right-wing fundies