Christians discuss effective boycotts against Target and Bud Light.
Conservative Consumers Speak with Their Wallets, Wall Street Takes Notice
Finally, conservative consumers have found a way to make their voices heard when it comes to companies that promote LGBT ideology, including transgenderism. And it seems that Wall Street is starting to take notice.
Following backlash from the Right, retail giant Target announced this week that it will remove some of its LGBT Pride merchandise aimed at both children and adults, including “tuck-friendly” women’s bathing suits, and designs from a company that sells satanic-themed LGBTQ+ clothing. This backtracking comes amid a devastating boycott against beer brand Bud Light over that company’s decision to team up with Dylan Mulvaney, a 26-year-old transgender activist who pretends to be a “girl” in online videos.
The Power of the Consumer
“We were sold a false bill of goods, that this was just gonna be kind of a live-and-let-live kind of libertarian approach to ordering our life together in society,” says theologian and Christian Ethics Professor Andrew Walker. “I think what we’re seeing is this kind of the metastasizing, outworking, and growth of the sexual revolution just doing what it’s naturally prone to do, which is to be all-consuming and to say that there are no limits whatsoever.”
Walker adds, “I believe in something like the natural law that every single person has some type of access to a general moral knowledge, and I think that that moral knowledge tells us that preying on children, sexualizing children is beyond the boundaries of a decent society. I think we’re seeing a reaction to that.”
Matt Fradd, Catholic apologist and host of the popular podcast “Pints with Aquinas,” agrees. He says that any group promoting the LGBT movement “ought not be patronized if there be another alternative.”
“And if you say, ‘But everyone is promoting it,’ then we should avoid those corporations who are especially promoting it,” Fradd says. “Our primary purpose in doing this is not to make them hurt financially, but to not participate in evil.”
But the companies are feeling the squeeze. Bud Light’s parent company, Anheuser-Busch has reportedly lost nearly $16 billion in value since the backlash started last month. Target has witnessed a $6 billion decrease in its market capitalization, The Daily Wire reported Thursday.
Boycotts Continue
And the calls to boycott haven’t stopped at Bud Light and Target. A Catholic bishop and popular podcast host named Bishop Robert Barron on Thursday called for a boycott of the Los Angeles Dodgers. The baseball team partnered with the highly controversial so-called “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence,” an LGBT group that mocks Catholics.
“Friends, it’s hard to imagine anything more offensive than some of the behavior of the ‘Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence,’ which I think can only be described as an anti-Catholic hate group,” the bishop said via Twitter. “Yet the Los Angeles Dodgers have invited this group to be honored at their stadium. Anti-Catholicism is the last acceptable prejudice in America, and we shouldn’t tolerate it.”
“I’m a big baseball fan,” Bishop Barron added. “I’ve even thrown out the first pitch at a Dodgers game. But I’d encourage my friends in LA to boycott the Dodgers. Let’s not just pray, but make our voices heard in defense of our Catholic faith.”
Corporate Wokeness and Apathy
Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro, an Orthodox Jew, pinpointed last week why we are inundated with “pride” promotions and merchandise from corporations. “All of this relies on two things: unity of corporate wokeness, and your apathy,” he said.
That apathy, at least for now, seems to be fading away.
Ben Zeisloft contributed to this report
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