"Joy and pleasure are as real as pain and sorrow and one must learn what they have to teach. . . ." -- Sean Russell, from Gatherer of Clouds

"If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right." -- Helyn D. Goldenberg

"I love you and I'm not afraid." -- Evanescence, "My Last Breath"

“If I hear ‘not allowed’ much oftener,” said Sam, “I’m going to get angry.” -- J.R.R. Tolkien, from Lord of the Rings

Thursday, February 14, 2019

Today in Disgusting People: Valentine's Day Edition

Apparently there's a "Christian" group wanting to dictate where you spend your money on Valentine's Day. (Yeah, well, no surprise there.) They find some of the ways major candy companies spend their money to be offensive to their "Christian values." Thus, this alert to the faithful:

Valentine’s Day is this week and for many that means choosing candy to give to your significant other. You have many options out there when it comes to candy, but 2nd Vote wants to make sure you are informed on where your consumer dollars will be going after you purchase the candy.

Once you've paid for the candy, they're not your dollars any more.

If you choose Hershey’s as your Valentine’s Day candy of choice, unfortunately you will be indirectly supporting leftist organizations such as Planned Parenthood, the Human Rights Campaign, and other organizations that work to undermine protections for religious liberty. . . .

Another candy company to avoid this Valentine’s Day is Mars. Mars is a company that is most famously known for its popular chocolate bars such as Snickers, Musketeers, Milky-Ways, and M&Ms. As much as we all might enjoy these candy bars, we dislike how Mars spends our consumer dollars. Mars scores a 2.1 because of their support of groups such as the World Wildlife Fund, Planned Parenthood, and LULAC.

Yeah, well, Planned Parenthood is a no-brainer, as is the HRC, because everyone knows that leaving people alone to live their lives as they choos is an assault on "religious liberty". But the World Wildlife Fund? Actually, one of my main objections to Christianity, aside from the concept of Original Sin itself, is the idea that man and nature fell from grace and that man can be redeemed, but nature cannot. That's just a flimsy excuse to pillage the only home we have. So, not supporting the World Wildlife Fund is in itself enough reason to give this group a zero rating on the decent human being scale.

Hershey makes a decent dark chocolate. I think its time to treat myself to one.

Oh, and happy Valentine's Day.

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