Hypocrisy, thy name be Wal*Mart (Selling ex-gay kid's book)

[Bourne Endeavor]

More than 100 Walmart stores are selling a book for kids and parents that suggests gay people can overcome ?sin? and convert to heterosexuality with the help of counseling, according to Q Salt Lake.

Chased by an Elephant: The Gospel Truth About Today?s Stampeding Sexuality is written by Janice Barrett Graham, whose husband, Stephen, runs the antigay group Standard of Liberty.

In the book?s introduction Graham says she wrote the book to ?help shed the clear light of truth on today?s dark and tangled ideas about male and female, proper gender roles, the law of chastity, and the God-given sexual appetite.?

Graham?s son Andrew claims he successfully changed his sexual orientation and is now a happily married man. In his book Captain of My Soul, Andrew Graham writes that he was ?lured into same gender internet pornography during his high school years, and recruited into cursory homosexual experimentation with older men while at Brigham Young University.?

For the last two years, Walmart has scored just 40% on the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index.

Source [http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/10/18/Walmart_Sells_Exgay_Kids_Book/]

Apparently selling a product that completely disregards and subjects a group of people to ridicule is perfectly acceptable by their standards, yet release a "violent" video game and by the heavens, we have unleashed a plague. Furthermore, it is simply mind baffling how this horrendous piece of dribble ever made it into circulation. It is unfortunate we live in a society that cannot fathom the minimal considerable of keeping their business to themselves. No, we have to "save the gays!" Just... unreal. The only thing they need rescuing from is moronic fanatics such as the author of the aforementioned book.

Nonetheless, I figured it would be an interesting conversation piece and hey, it is search bar approved! And before someone queries, I had recently read an article about Wal*Mart and their looming over the gaming industry about violence in games. Thus, I related the two for means of discussion.

 

[Terminate421]

Parents want their children to be perfect, if they screw up, they'll blame ANYTHING. Even their own pet who they had BEFORE the kid.

 

[ShadowsofHope]

..Yeah, religious fundamentalists wanting attention. Just ignore them, Wal-Mart is a known panderer to all the lowlifes and lesser intellectuals of society.

Watch the boy come out again in just a few years. It'll happen, one way or the other.

 

[RatRace123]

No no no no no no no no no no no no no!
FAIL!
That sort of shit shouldn't even be marketed, let alone sold at a popular retailer.

GOD DAMNIT! Today's parents are stupid fucks!

 

[Something Amyss]

I still don't get this notion that you go gay simply by looking at gay porn or whatever. If your sexuality is that malleable, maybe the problem isn't the porn.

 

[Terminate421]

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[Something Amyss]

Question:

Is it normal to experiment with different kinds of Internet porn in high school? I did that for a while until I found out im just a normal straight guy. But I caught my self fapping to the wrong stuff a few times (Like 5 times)

Am I okay or was that just harmless experimentation?

It's a slippery slope. We're going to have to watch you closely.

 

[Hassao]

This shit shal not pass!
Why does this stuff get allowed to be sold, yet when anyone says anything against it they are burned alive.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

Ok......You do know that this actually has absolutely nothing to do with games though, right?

I mean really....Nothing. I really hate how about 80% of this site looks at every current event in terms of "How can I relate this to oppression of gaming as an art form?" and not in terms of it's own discussion value, of which there is plenty.

By the way, it's called Freedom of Speech. She's allowed to write it, and they're allowed to sell it, no matter how wrong it may be.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

If the kid is now happy and married to a woman...why is everyone making a big deal about it. So what if he's "cured" If its part of his religion for him to be straight let him do it. It is intolerance if he went for help and got it, thats his news. And for violent video games, come on! Just ask someone other then a video game fanatics opinion on video games and thats why this stuff isnt aloud. Video games are the minority people face it.

 

[WolfEdge]

Freedom o' Speech and all that. WallMart can sell what they want, to whoever they want. Fucked up and hypocritical? You betcha! Still their right as a business? Damn straight!

The only real issue I have here, is their weight-throwing in regards to the rest of the video game industry. I couldn't care less about some homophobes selling an equally homophobic book.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

Ok......You do know that this actually has absolutely nothing to do with games though, right?

I mean really....Nothing. I really hate how about 80% of this site looks at every current event in terms of "How can I relate this to oppression of gaming as an art form?" and not in terms of it's own discussion value, of which there is plenty.

By the way, it's called Freedom of Speech. She's allowed to write it, and they're allowed to sell it, no matter how wrong it may be.

So if I write a book in which I claim that my life was made better in the eyes of God by owning slaves (Leviticus 25:44), I could sell it at Wal-Mart? Good to know.

Well, that would be up to Wal-Mart, be you'd have the legal right to give it a shot.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

By the way, it's called Freedom of Speech. She's allowed to write it, and they're allowed to sell it, no matter how wrong it may be.

This. It's not as though Wal Mart executives agree with every message in every piece of media they sell. It's a business. Businesses aim to make money. Simple as that.

 

[Kurokami]

No no no no no no no no no no no no no!
FAIL!
That sort of shit shouldn't even be marketed, let alone sold at a popular retailer.

GOD DAMNIT! Today's parents are stupid fucks!

Really? Parents? I'm looking here and I read religious conservatives, not parents.

Let it be for sale, if only to cost the woman some money or shed some light on the morons in the world.

 

[Treefingers]

Freedom of speech.

Let them write about whatever they want to write about.

 

[WolfEdge]

So if I write a book in which I claim that my life was made better in the eyes of God by owning slaves (Leviticus 25:44), I could sell it at Wal-Mart? Good to know.

Yes.

Yes you could.

Assuming WalMart would stock it on their shelves. Keep in mind, though, that you could also pen and sell a book filled with nothing but hatred for religion and how Christians and Catholics are everything wrong with the United States, and they should be put in camps.

Aside from people on the opposite end, bitching at you, you put it to market, and they could do nothing to stop you.

That's Freedom, baby!