It is what the ELCA wanted to do to my parishioner. Confronting any number of issues from poor commercial displays of Christmas spirit to free zone restrooms, the AFA intentionally tries to injure people, threatening their jobs and their livelihood by chasing customers out the door. This time the stunt is an incitement by the American Family Association, and one it frequently undertakes. They were deliberately trying to hurt his business and his livelihood, and do it for issues over which he had little influence and absolutely no control.Ī boycott is favored by the permanently aggrieved. Here he was, working hard for his family and himself, and giving his customers the best work he could give, and a band of Christians came out of nowhere and mugged him. He could not figure out why and the reasons, best I remember, were obscure, though naturally oil was in there somewhere. To his surprise he learned the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), to which he belonged, along with several mainline denominations, had called for a boycott of Amoco products and stations. The man to whom I was pastor, 1988 thereabouts, owned and operated an Amoco service station (long before it became BP Amoco).
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