Comments on: Hallmark taps in to gay wedding market

By: Marylin

Marylin — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:43:54 +0000

Bob,
Maybe these companies either didn’t realize that the time had come, sure Ryan at his Hallmark store finds that there is still a lot of very miserable folks like that father who raised cain over the phone with him who oppose gay progress of any kind, but hey maybe Hallmark and other companies were holding back until our relationships were made legal and with the M word. Could be they wouldn’t acknowledge gay relationships when they were still not legal just in case. Now that, MA and CA have gay marriage, I just bet NJ will be the next state, likely it would be a midAtlantic or northeast state. Maryland might be a future marriage state, NJ has a gay-friendly DEM governor, imagine he’d sign New Jersey gay marriage into state law making NJ the 3rd such state.

So Hallmark has likely decided that the legal, social and political climate has sufficiently changed to make the marketing of the gay marriage cards in stores easier. Maybe it decided the time was now right.

By: Father Raymond Clark

Father Raymond Clark — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:46:17 +0000

I hate to be the one to tell that fundy that his kids have already seen “sodomites” … as the old Anglican hymn says, “in church, or in trains, or in shops, or at tea, for the *saints* of God are just folk like me, and I mean to be one too.”

Father Raymond
Superior (retired)
Community of the Resurrection
San Diego CA USA

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:10:05 +0000

I work at a corporate Hallmark store and was very happy when this announcement was made, however a day after the press release and people are already going nuts! I had a man call my store today and tell me that he would no longer shop at Hallmark and that he and his church buddies would be boycotting all Hallmarks in our area. He said he couldn’t bring his children into the store and let them see “sodomites”. I told him what to do and where to go and then hung up on him =)

By: David

David — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:34:32 +0000

This truly is a “Hallmark moment”! Good on them for reaching out to all people.

By: Chris Sullivan

Chris Sullivan — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:27:06 +0000

Yes, I have noticed that they put the word marriage in quotes when referencing gay marriage. A lot of media outlets did the same thing for awhile but its less prevalent now. I think we should all put the words – family – and – right – in quotes when refering to the anti-gay and religiously controlled organizations or political affiliations… now it should be Focus on the “Family” – and the Religious “Right” – the American “Family” Association etc. etc.

I could have set a stopwatch on the reaction to Hallmarks move by the AFA – who are a big bunch of assholes to begin with anwyay.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:04:42 +0000

the so-called American Family Association has alarted their readership of Hallmark card marketing the gay wedding cards and I INTEND TO KEEP BUYIHG THEM FROM MY LOCAL STORE even if I don’t need them right away.

Let’s do that for a while so that Hallmark will be less inclined to listen to the boycott-threateners and antigay bullies at the so-called “American” “Family” “Association”.

The antigays are fond of using quotation marks to ridicule gay people like in homosexual “marriage” > We are not gays to them we are always refered to by them by the clinical term “homosexuals” or “homosexual” to mean a gay person or describe something “gay” as “homosexual”

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:14:55 +0000

I bet so called ‘evangelical christians’ will take it upon themselves to promote there twisted version of ‘truth’ and proceed to boycott hallmark.

The shear stupidity and ignorance of some people is mind boggling to say the least…

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:32:17 +0000

Interesting how companies like Hallmark have started to tap into the Gay dollars only after California legalized same-sex marriage. Massachusetts has allowed this for how many years now???