It’s occurred to me that maybe the Cathy family wanted to bring their beliefs to the forefront. It could be their election year effort to sway people to their way of thinking.
Well, that stuff WAS said on a radio show. Law of averages suggests it could have been a fairly right wing one. So basically, we should have known all along about his views (even though the fact he funds his views to become a reality IS the main problem at hand). I wouldn't doubt that he's giving buttloads of money to certain political campaigns and super PACs. But then, so aren't every major company in the US, even the "tolerant" ones you listed.
This also shed some light on the bigotry still very much alive in America. This issue has separated the true and wonderful Christians from the terrible people and groups that use the Christian label in an attempt to gentrify the country and the world so that it conforms to their very limited set of ideas.
This is why I want Christians to go on record as separating themselves from the dangerous extremists that want to control our country, and turn a democracy into a mixture between a Theocracy, Autocracy, and (with the Neo-Cons involved) a Plutocracy. I don't think they should be painted with the same brush strokes as those people, but either there's a huge resistance to being resistant, or those who are languish in obscurity, almost silenced. I still find the action of the Catholic Church on a bunch of progressive nuns (who are content to focusing on HELPING people rather than pointing out how they're not living a narrow enough lifestyle to avoid Badplace) more than a little disturbing and disheartening. Like I've said this entire thread, why is one tiny footnote, presented as a suggestion if ANYTHING, that make or break for Christianity to the point where the Ten actual Commandments are put behind it? It's not a case of it being a sin, just a case of bigotry trying to justify itself religiously, and having that spread through.
But then I have to ask... when
will the country be ready for gay marriage? It really seems the "Gay is evil" thing is a product of hateful indoctrination forced upon younger generations that would normally grow up not to care by those who hypocritically say that everything around them is indoctrinating their kids to be tolerant. Especially a certain cartoon sponge in one episode played for laughs, that now has turned into subversive comedy by the writers as a big Screw You to those very people. It seems the younger generation is no longer biting on that worm, and thinking for themselves (most of them coming to a "who cares?" conclusion), but it's going to take the prejudice dying out, or becoming increasingly UnPC for it to truely happen nationally.
Also, I don’t know exactly what happened, but it is my belief that CFA was going to use this unspecified and non-disclosed toy recall to give Henson an easy out before JHC decided to release their statement.
The more and more I think about it... let's face it. These things are CRAP! Cardboard punch put pieces to attach to a cheap, plastic film canisters (remember those?)... THAT is not a toy. That is a joke. That kind of thing ISN'T a prize.
This Ripping Friends cartoon basically says what I have to say about that...
Now, I'm fully convinced this would have been recalled anyway because EVERYTHING gets recalled for stupid reasons. This looks like something cheap that a kid with fat fingers can lodge one of those in anyway.