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Archae

(46,374 posts)
Sat Dec 17, 2011, 08:38 PM Dec 2011

The "Florida Family Association" behind Lowe's pullout of ads? One guy.

And even the "American Family Association" can't stand him!

Waging a One-Man War on American Muslims

By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN

Published: December 16, 2011

During the mid-1990s, after hearing about the harassment of gay students, the principal of Largo High School in Florida created a support group for them. Over the next year or two, the meetings also drew sympathetic friends, evolving into a club called the Gay Straight Alliance. For a while, it operated in comfortable obscurity.

Then, in 1998, the principal, Barbara Thornton, began receiving postcards, many bearing the identical message bizarrely denouncing the alliance as a “government-funded witch hunt.” The local school board felt compelled to take up the issue, with 400 parents attending a meeting at which one speaker compared the gay students to murderers.

During that session, Ms. Thornton encountered the man who had manufactured the entire controversy: David Caton. An accountant turned rock-club owner, the author of a book about his pornography addiction, Mr. Caton had become a born-again Christian and the founder and sole employee of a fundamentalist group called the Florida Family Association.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/17/us/on-religion-a-one-man-war-on-american-muslims.html?_r=1

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The "Florida Family Association" behind Lowe's pullout of ads? One guy. (Original Post) Archae Dec 2011 OP
Gee, what a shock! proud2BlibKansan Dec 2011 #1
And all of us are not able to get change? Curmudgeoness Dec 2011 #2
Hate sells better. DURHAM D Dec 2011 #5
These guys need to be heavily investigated by the SPLC. Initech Dec 2011 #3
Not "they", just "he". That is what is so sad Curmudgeoness Dec 2011 #7
Wait - this "group" is really just one guy? WTF? Initech Dec 2011 #10
Yep, WTF indeed. nt Curmudgeoness Dec 2011 #11
Instead of getting pissed at Lowe's, we should be getting the SPLC on this. Initech Dec 2011 #13
So, it looks to me like DURHAM D Dec 2011 #4
Anyone care to bet Caton has a huge gay porn collection? Archae Dec 2011 #6
Ultimate Astroturf. formercia Dec 2011 #8
Lowes must get the warm fuzzies by having their chain jerked by indepat Dec 2011 #9
When I think of one guy creating change, I conjure up a Gandhi or a Martin Luther King Jr. Bozita Dec 2011 #12
R#10 & K for, another cockroach getting the light put on him n/t UTUSN Dec 2011 #14

Initech

(100,146 posts)
3. These guys need to be heavily investigated by the SPLC.
Sat Dec 17, 2011, 08:49 PM
Dec 2011

It seems like they're a bonafied hate group.

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
7. Not "they", just "he". That is what is so sad
Sat Dec 17, 2011, 09:11 PM
Dec 2011

about the whole thing. One guy can do so much damage. But yes, there should be an investigation into this "group".

Initech

(100,146 posts)
13. Instead of getting pissed at Lowe's, we should be getting the SPLC on this.
Sat Dec 17, 2011, 11:57 PM
Dec 2011

This is deserving of more than a few lawsuits, and the Florida Family Association needs to be heavily investigated.

DURHAM D

(32,618 posts)
4. So, it looks to me like
Sat Dec 17, 2011, 08:50 PM
Dec 2011

Canton's single concern is scaming fools in order to raise money to sustain his porn addiction.

indepat

(20,899 posts)
9. Lowes must get the warm fuzzies by having their chain jerked by
Sat Dec 17, 2011, 09:43 PM
Dec 2011

a poronography-addicted jerk turned born-again Christian and seeming peddler of hate. Way to go Lowes. Three cheers.

Bozita

(26,955 posts)
12. When I think of one guy creating change, I conjure up a Gandhi or a Martin Luther King Jr.
Sat Dec 17, 2011, 11:44 PM
Dec 2011

Certainly NOT a fundy assclown in Florida who has found he could make a living out of hate and prejudice.

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