When I first read this “suggestion” yesterday the flaws in the plan became shockingly clear. Evidently, not so much to the AFA.
Incensed by the release of a postage stamp honoring Harvey Milk, the American Family Association is urging its members not only to avoid purchasing the stamp…but to refuse to accept or open any letter or package postmarked with one.
1. Refuse to accept the Harvey Milk stamp if offered by your local post office. Instead, ask for a stamp of the United States flag.
2. Refuse to accept mail at your home or business if it is postmarked with the Harvey Milk stamp. Simply write 'Return to Sender" on the envelope and tell your postman you won't accept it.
In his daily email alert yesterday, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins also attacked the Obama administration for issuing the stamp, linking the move to the imprisonment of a Sudanese mother who is facing the death penalty for her conversion to Christianity: “(T)he Obama administration -- which had more than enough time to throw a party in honor of homosexual activist Harvey Milk -- hasn't had a spare second to demand the freedom of two of America’s youngest citizens.”
Here’s the suggested counter PSA (with a side of stupid) for those paranoid AFA members, courtesy of DU. (click image to embiggen.)
The stoopid. It burns!
More later.
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Love the suggestion at the end of the riposte. Pity that those who are sympathetic to the boycott of the stamps won't get that far in reading it. They'll be too busy fuming at being categorised as 'homophobes' (oh, the unfairness of it!) which, we all know, they are definitely NOT, right? ;-)
ReplyDeleteSuch a fuss over a stamp; which no one uses stamps anyway.
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