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Actress Jane Lynch joins Amway boycott over donation to anti-gay group

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Emmy-award winning actress Jane Lynch has joined a boycott targeting the direct-sales giant Amway, according to mLive. LGBT rights activist Fred Karger, who launched the boycott in August, said Lynch “grabbed the pen out of my hand and signed away” when asked to add her name to a postcard. The…

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Amway faces boycott over donation to anti-gay group

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LGBT rights activist Fred Karger announced Thursday a global boycott targeting the direct-sales giant Amway over its founder’s contribution to an anti-gay group. Tax records obtained by Karger show that Amway president and owner Doug DeVos donated $500,000 to the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) Education Fund through his Douglas…

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The broken ethics of the evangelical economy

Via Ezra comes this interesting angle on a lawsuit against “artist” Thomas Kinkade that may have larger implications for the subculture I like to call the evangelical economy. There’s a lot of complications in the Kinkade empire, but the lawsuit in question is over the predatory relationship Kinkade had with…

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