Would you boycott a business if it was owned by a fundamentalist Christian?

[nclib]

Probably not, if it didn't discriminate or push its beliefs onto customers.

[Colin]

No I eat at Chik-Fil-A regularly.

Chik-Fil-A is of course owned by a fundamentalist Southern Baptist. I of course would never boycott a place because of its owners as long as it provided be the services that I need at a reasonable price, with some exceptions of course.

[adam]

I live in Texas, it's either do business with Christian fundamentalists or starve.

[dazzleman]

No.

[DownWithTheLeft]

Hell, I would give them as much business as I could

[Alcon]

No, but I wouldn't leave them a tip, because it's God's will that I don't.

[Dr. Cynic]

Well, I wouldn't mind, as long as they didn't discriminate, and practiced good business.

[Nym90]

No, I wouldn't.

[jerusalemcar5]

if it didn't discriminate or push its beliefs onto customers.

I think that is part of fundamentalist Christian nature actually, so I would boycott.

[Smash255]

a fred Phelps  type business?  yes.  But other than that would generally have o say no.

[Bdub]

No.

[J. J.]

Probably not, if it didn't discriminate or push its beliefs onto customers.

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[Michael Z]

I once heard through the grapevine that my company - a US conglomerate, no less - is part-owned by some fundie church in the deep South. Some shudders went through the room. Anyway, I can hardly boycott my own employer, can I.

Anyway, generally speaking, probably not, as long as they didn't push their beliefs onto me, their valued customer. (What nclib said, basically.)

[opebo]

Of course!  Then again most fundamentalists will tend to provide poor services, bad food, and tacky products, so my encounters with them will be limited anyway.

[MasterJedi]

No, no reason to unless you're a crazy hack.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

No I eat at Chik-Fil-A regularly.

Chik-Fil-A is of course owned by a fundamentalist Southern Baptist. I of course would never boycott a place because of its owners as long as it provided be the services that I need at a reasonable price, with some exceptions of course.

Sweet--I love that place.

I think you all know where I stand on this.  (No for those of you who don't)

[nini2287]

No, and the CEO of my current employer is one.

[angus]

I would not.  Nor would I boycott a business owned by a Nazi or even a feminist.  If they're selling what I'm buying and they're selling it cheaper than anyone else in the neighborhood, they'll get my business.  Boycotts are ineffective, misguided, and generally most harm innocent people more than they harm the intended targets.  And anyway, why the hell would anyone boycott a store for the sole reason of someone's religious preference?  Isn't that exactly the same as "I wouldn't do business in a n's store."  Really, Mr. Senator, isn't it?  It's bigotry.  Not that there's anything wrong with admitting to being a bigot.  So long as you're willing to admit it and wear it on your sleeve.  Not so easy to wear it when it's labelled "bigotry" rather than "progressive" I'd imagine, even though the former label is probably just as apt, and maybe more so.  It'd be one thing if you were not doing business with a child pornographer.  At least I'd assume you had some principled reason.  I'd still call you a misguided fool, but at least we could admire you on some level.  But boycotting a store because of the owner's religion?!

[angus]

ha.  apparently I was in a mood to rant last night!  Let me clarify.

well, leaving aside the bigoted aspect of this particular boycott, since after all my reading of US custom and US law is that each of us has the right to be a bigot, I'll say that the whole boycott/sanction idea is one major peeve.  And now just about every day I hear that we're trying to pressure the UN to vote for economic sanctions against Iran.  This is the same UN that concluded that something like seven hundred thousand children died as a result of our sanctions against Iraq.  That country was weakened severely by our sanctions.  But did the sanctions harm Saddam?  Did they in any way weaken the grip of the Ba'ath party?  The only ones the sanctions harmed were innocent Iraqi citizens.  And what about refusing to do business with Cuba?  Has forty years of that policy harmed Castro?  No, castro's old age and cigar smoking may have harmed him, but the only ones we harm by not trading with Cuba are innocent cubans and maybe some americans who are forced to smuggle in cuban cigars.  In fact, sanctions/boycotts often hurt the one doing the sanctioning as much as the one sanctioned.  For example, when MLB introduced interleague play, a very purist baseball-fan friend of mine said that he'd "never attend another game!"  Okay, let me get this straight:  you like baseball.  Lots.  And you have always attended major league games.  But now, since they're breaking tradition, you are going to stop giving the leagues the occassional twenty bucks.  Who are you really hurting?  If you're depriving yourself of something you find entertaining, then you are only hurting yourself.