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Boycott Urged as Pepsi TV Ad Pushes Homosexual Lifestyle
WASHINGTON, February 2, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - After giving major financial contributions to homosexualist organizations, Pepsi is now using its TV spots to promote the homosexual lifestyle. In a recent spot aired in the UK, a man is shown in a bar being urged to ask out a girl that appears to be interested in him. He drinks a Pepsi Max to find courage, but then passes up two attractive women sitting at the bar and instead expresses interest in a man.
The American Family Association has urged a boycott of the company after asking Pepsi to remain neutral in the culture war. Pepsi, however, refused, telling AFA that it will continue major financial support of homosexual organizations seeking to legalize homosexual marriage.
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Pepsi has given $500,000 to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the largest and most powerful homosexual lobbying group in America. The company also gave $500,000 to Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). The total gift of $1,000,000 to the two homosexual activist groups was to help promote the homosexual lifestyle in the workplace.
AFA notes that Pepsi also forces its employees to attend sexual orientation and gender identity diversity training, where they are taught to accept homosexuality.
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Scottish Fireman Receives Apology, Compensation over Gay Pride Parade Flap
By Tim Waggoner
GLASGOW, February 2nd, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A fireman for the Red Watch at Cowcaddens fire station in Glasgow has received an apology and compensation from the station's fire board after he was disciplined for refusing to hand out fire safety pamphlets at a gay pride parade.
The Telegraph reports that John Mitchell received the apology and compensation from the Strathclyde Fire Board after he was issued a written warning and was forced to attend "diversity training" for his decision not to attend the Pride Scotia rally in June 2006 on moral grounds.
A gagging clause has prevented Mitchell from speaking in detail on the issue but it is known that the board admitted they had ignored Mitchell's religious views and agreed to compensate the Roman Catholic father of four. According to a friend of the family, Mitchell often worried that his employment with the fire department would be terminated and said his family was subjected to threatening phone calls.
The out-of-court settlement comes almost three years late and only after Mitchell received no answer in the internal review process and therefore took the board to the employment tribunal.
Nine firemen in total were disciplined in 2006 for their decision to avoid the gay parade, with one man losing approximately 5,000 pounds because he was demoted from his position as watch manager.
Some said they refused to participate on religious grounds, while others said were embarrassed to show up at the parade in uniform. According to the Guardian, the firemen argued that they should not be forced to align with a cause and that the department was attempting to use them to attract more LGBT firefighters to give the fire station a more "gay friendly" image.
A Christian Institute spokesperson issued a statement saying, "In line with Catholic teaching, John is opposed to homosexual acts without condemning homosexuals themselves. But he has never sought to foist his views on anyone else and felt that others should have shown him that same respect."
