Another reason to keep drinking lemonade...

Besides a doublebutt ton of coffee every day, homemade lemonade is the only drink I take. I don't use lemons, just generic lemon juice, some Splenda, water and voila! It started as a cost saving measure, now it looks like I'll have another good reason.

January 2, 2009 (LifeSIteNews.com) - Soft drink giant PepsiCo, which also owns Frito Lay chips, Tropicana orange juice, Gatorade and Quaker oatmeal, (more boycotts, good thing I don't eat chips and use only generic oatmeal for my baking) has given a million dollars in the past two years to organizations which promote homosexuality, and forces its employees to attend sexual orientation and gender identity/expression classes. (Reeducation at it's finest. It helps weed out thought crimes.)

$500,000 went to the Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays' (PFLAG) "Straight for Equality" program which, according to PFLAG's website (http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/jan/%3Ca%20href=http://community.pflag.org/Document.Doc?id=160">http://community.pflag.org/Document.Doc?id=160), "will be used to expand workplace training." (Why should someone's sexual preference even enter into the workplace enviornment? Can I sue for sexual harassment against another man if I find myself back in the workforce? Kinda have the feeling thats a dumb question.)

Jacqueline Millan, director of PepsioCo Corporate Contributions, said in a PepsiCo bulletin, "We are delighted to continue our partnership with PFLAG. The Straight for Equality in the Workplace training program is unique in that it is promoting the necessary message of inclusion to untapped groups within the local community, and that is a crucial step towards building a healthy work environment." (How?)

Pepsi also gave $500,000 to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a group that describes itself as "America's largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality," according to an American Family Association (AFA) report. (Ohboy! Any bets on what "equality" would entail?)

The AFA indicated that both HRC and PFLAG supported efforts in California to defeat Proposition 8, which defined marriage as being between a man and a woman. HRC, the homosexual group financially supported by Pepsi, gave $2.3 million to defeat Prop 8. (Wonder if anyone working at Pepsi had to hide the fact they supported Prop 8 from their supervisors?)

The AFA has launched a petition and boycott campaign focused on demanding that Pepsi "remain neutral in the culture war." (Hellooooo lemonade!!)

"PepsiCo has refused a request by AFA to remain neutral in the culture war," said AFA Chairman Donald Wildmon in an Action Alert. "The company indicated that it will continue major financial support of homosexual organizations," adding that "Pepsi refuses to give money to any pro-family organization that opposes the homosexual agenda." (Remember the days when major companies would be proud to support family-friendly organizations like the Boy Scouts?)

Wildmon explained that the AFA wrote Pepsi two times (on October 14 and October 29) requesting a meeting to discuss Pepsi's support of homosexual groups, subsequently receiving a "condescending letter" from Paul Boykas, director of public policy, in which Boykas refused to address Pepsi's support of the homosexual agenda. (Guess they figure anyone disapproving of the homosexual "lifestyle" would still buy their caffeinated bellywash.)

Link to the AFA Action Alert: http://www.afa.net/boycottpepsico/pepsionemillion.htm
Link to the AFA petition: https://secure.afa.net/afa/activism/signpetition.asp?id=1800

Contact PepsiCo with your concern:

PepsiCo, Inc.
700 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577
Phone: (914) 253-2000
Toll-free: 1-800-433-2652

Pepsi – QTG Canada
Quaker Park
14 Hunter St E
Peterborough ON
K9J 7B2
Phone: 1-888-794-2867

Damn! At this rate I'll be subsisting on homemade bread and lemonade. Well, I've been trying to lose a few pounds...

UPDATE:

Here's a copy of my letter, to be sent tomorrow;

To Whom It May Concern;

Recently I was made aware that in the last two years, Pepsi has given $500,000 to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and $500,000 to the Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). The $1,000,000 was to be used to help promote homosexuality in the workplace. I feel this is highly inappropriate and it goes against my own convictions. Because every homosexual organization I know of is overwhelmingly pro-abortion this is doubly damning in my opinion.

I have also been informed that Pepsi requires all employees to attend sexual orientation and gender identity diversity training where they are taught to accept homosexuality in the workplace. My own beliefs make me wonder why such a private matter as sexual orientation needs to even be addressed in the work environment. As a supposedly enlightened culture we strive to remain gender neutral regarding men & women. Why should this neutrality not extend to those with same sex attraction?

I realize company policy will not change any time soon, since so much of this is repugnant I will not buy PepsiCo products in the foreseeable future.

Sincerely,

My name.