Thursday, November 06, 2008

Let The Mormon Boycott Begin

Stop all Monsters has a good idea for those of us who want to fight back against the idiocy that is California's Prop 8. Let's make it hurt, Boycott Marriott hotels owned by Brent Andrus (The list is in the comments thanks to a concerned friend).

Works for me.

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richguy 6p · 862 weeks ago

Two things:

1) To be clear the specific hotels owned by this group are:

Courtyard by Marriott (184 Rooms)
2150 Market Center Blvd
Dallas, TX 75207
Date opened: June 15, 1991

Courtyard by Marriott (145 Room)
5835 Owens Avenue
Carlsbad, CA 92008
Date opened: June 20, 2000

Courtyard by Marriott (245 Room)
8651 Spectrum Center Blvd
San Diego, CA 92123
Date opened: March 15, 2002

Courtyard by Marriott (190 Room)
2100 Empire Avenue
Burbank, CA 91504
Date opened: October 4, 2002

Courtyard by Marriott (179 Room)
8506 Fenton Dr.
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Date opened: August 8, 2005

Residence Inn by Marriott (121 Rooms)
2000 Faraday Avenue
Carlsbad, CA 92008
Date opened: August 24, 1999

Residence Inn by Marriott (150 Rooms)
2135 East El Segundo Blvd
El Segundo, CA 90245
Date opened: April 19, 2001

Residence Inn by Marriott (95 Rooms)
12011 Scripps Highlands Dr.
San Diego, CA 92131
Date opened: August 26, 2003

Residence Inn by Marriott (160 Rooms)
30950 Russell Ranch Road
Westlake Village, CA 91362
Date Opened: August 7, 2007

Fairfield Inn and Suites by Marriott
(118 Rooms)
630 W. John Carpenter Frwy
Irving, TX 75039
Date opened: January 7, 1998

Fairfield Inn and Suites by Marriott
(106 Rooms)
3701 NE Loop 820
Fort Worth, TX 76137
Date opened: May 9, 1997

Fairfield Inn and Suites by Marriott
(116 Rooms)
2110 Market Center Blvd.
Dallas, TX 75207
Date opened: October 7, 1995

SpringHill Suites by Marriott (137 Room)
12032 Scripps Highlands Dr.
San Diego, CA 92131
Date opened: May 9, 2003

Homewood Suites Hilton (150 Rooms)
2576 Laning Road
San Diego, CA 92106
Date opened: September 24, 2007

And 2) I'll have the same argument with you I have had with other fundamentalist evangelicals that lead and participate in boycotts. Assume that your boycott has some negative effect, and that the counter boycott by Prop 8 supporters doesn't more than make up for the lost business.

When Jimmy the hotel maintenance guy loses his job in the initial round of cutbacks as business levels drop, what do you say to his daughter when they lose their home and have to move leaving all of her friends behind? Do you explain that her pain is just roadkill on your ideological highway? Do you try to pretend that it is all really the OWNERS fault even though he is the guy that built the business in the first place and paid Daddy's check until recently?

Or do you choose to realize that boycotts (like unwise and ill executed invasions of foreign countries) always hurt the innocent first?
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Volly · 862 weeks ago

I've wondered idly since Election Day what would happen if every GLBT person in California went on strike for about a week?
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Danite · 862 weeks ago

What separates you from the Nazi fascists? Not your lies, hatred, or homosexuality. What a pathetic group of sad losers.
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JR · 862 weeks ago

gee seems you queers should boycott california since they voted for it.
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Mojoey 107p · 862 weeks ago

so is this when the all the haters come out? What is it like to be a hater? I don't understand how people do it.
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anton kozlik · 862 weeks ago

Gee, Mojoey, did you notice that your detractors are "untraceable"? Unfortunately, any boycott could only have self-satisfying results. A boycott would ignite the kind of backlash that has more "fundies" making a Mariotte choice. There are more than enough "fundies" to keep the Marriott's full although their bars would go out of business since Mormons don't drink. A boycott is more likely to create a job loss for the barmen and women since, while the hotel is full, the bar won't get any business. The hotel would also be taking coffee, tea and coke off of their menu. What would be interesting would be if "non-Mormon" hotels refused to take reservations from Mormons and "force" them to stay at a Marriott Hotel.
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Melisande Rupert · 861 weeks ago

I think you're wrong. With today's business climate, no hotel chain can afford alienate ANY percentage of its market.

And it's not just gays who are boycotting - I"m boycotting, nearly everyone I know is boycotting (and only a couple of them are gay). Remember nearly half of us voted against Prop 8 - and that's a lot of folks.

Fundies tend to be cheap (my fundie relatives anyway and I think they're typical - they stay at Motel Six or don't travel - indeed, a lot of them have never been out of our town).

The travel business is based on business and on cosmopolitan manners - not on narrow minded bigotry. I know that many businesses won't want to be associated with this type of political action. Too bad the Prop 8 supporters felt it necessary to put this on the ballot - it's going to cost them more than they bargained for, I think.

The data base of donors is huge, and many, many businesses are on it.
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libhomo · 862 weeks ago

The Mormon church also discriminated against atheists by meddling in politics. I totally support the boycott.
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Roland Prijoles · 861 weeks ago

We go to Manila several times a year, and stayed at The Rennaisance Hotel in Makati. I noticed that the last trip it was taken over by The Marriot Hotel. We will advise our agents and friends not to stay at the Rennaisance Hotel because we will boycot the Mormon Church and all their businesses.
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disgusted · 858 weeks ago

Do you realize how immature and stupid all of you sound? I'm LDS, and I think that gays should have the right to be legally married.

So, why not stop and ask people's opinion before you judge them? Or ask them why they're against it. You're turning into the judgmental bigots you're claiming all Mormons all
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Mojoey 107p · 858 weeks ago

Oh bullshit. So what if you are a Mormon. What did you do to fight this bs? Nothing but complain about the injustice of being called your for your religions bigotry. I'm sorry, but I hold you in more contempt then I do the people who managed this. You were just a good German.
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jonathan · 857 weeks ago

I don't think that standing by idly while millions are murdered compares with not fight prop 8.
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Stephen · 847 weeks ago

Please let me know of any other Mormon businesses that you find out about. I am looking to invest my money and those mothers know how to run a business.
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jimhungsf 1p · 845 weeks ago

If you're an active member of the LDS church and you're not complaining to your church leaders about their bigotry and intrusion into what should be a secular issue, then YOU are part of the problem. And incidentally, Prop. 8 was losing by a significant margin until the mormon-supported campaign started spreading lies about what would happen if Prop. 8 didn't pass. This was clearly proven in numerous instances, but the LDS, evangelical and Catholic churches have no morals about lying to get what they want. If you're a mormon and you're not loudly and vocally compaining in your church, then you SHOULD be boycotted!

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