Here is a list or Morman owned or run businesses I say Boycott.

[curse of greyface]

Till the CEO's renounce Yes on 8 or the boards remove them I say we boycott.

United States Senate (Okay I'm half kidding here)


Here is the so called Morman stock index http://www.mormonstockindex.com/msi/index.shtml

Affiliated Computer Services ACS
AES Corp. AES
Avista Corp. AVA
American Express Company AXP
Black & Decker BDK
Cadence Design CDN
Corvis CORV
Central Pacific Bank CPBI
1-800-Contacts CTAC
Cygnus Inc. CYGN
Diebold DBD
Dell Computer DELL
Dionex DNEX
Downey Savings and Loan DSL
EarthShell ERTH
Franklin Covey
Hillenbrand Industries
Headwaters, Inc.
Hollywood Entertainment HLYW
Host Marriott HMT
Iomega IOM D
JP Realty JPR
KeyCorp KEY
Knight Transportation KNGT
K-Swiss Inc. KSWS
La Quinta Properties, Inc. LQI
Marriott International MAR
Micro General MGEN
Merit Medical Systems MMSI
Monaco Coach MNC
Microsemi Corp. MSCC
Myriad Genetics MYGN
Novell NOVL
NPS Pharmaceuticals, Inc. NPSP
NuSkin NUS All Mormon Mgmt,
Oil States International OIS
Oakley OO
priceline.com Inc. PCLN
Phelps Dodge Corp. PD
Ryder Systems R
SkyWest Airlines SKYW
Swift Transportation SWFT
Cornerstone Realty Income Trust Inc TCR
Tropical Sportswear TSIC
Williams Companies, Inc. WMB
Zions Bancorp ZION

Edited to add companies

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

1. Did Any Of These Companies Lobby For Prop 8? If Not, Then Your Action Is Ridiculous.

[curse of greyface]

4. Every company on that list is lead by someone who is a major force in the Morman Church. NT

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

9. Dumb.

[slampoet]

2. Add GUITAR CENTER. They are owned by Mit Romney's investment group.

[Sebastian Doyle]

7. Mittens has quite a list on his own

Bain Capital was founded in 1984 by Bain & Company partners Willard Mitt Romney, T. Coleman Andrews III, and Eric Kriss. In addition to the three founding partners, the early team included Fraser Bullock, Robert F. White, Joshua Bekenstein, Adam Kirsch, Stephen Pagliuca and Geoffrey S. Rehnert. Bain Capital's original $37 million fund was raised entirely from private individuals in mid-1984, led by Ricardo Poma, a Salvadoran businessman.

The firm's investment professionals evaluate potential deals based on a consulting-based due diligence process that analyzes a company's financial performance, market growth potential, industry attractiveness, and competitive position. One of the fund's first start-up investments was Staples, Inc., the $15 billion office supply retailer. The funding enabled Staples to expand from one store in 1986 to nearly 1,700 in 2006.

Twenty years after its inception, Bain Capital manages approximately $80 billion in assets, and has founded, acquired, or invested in hundreds of companies including AMC Entertainment, Brookstone, Burger King, Burlington Coat Factory, Domino's Pizza, DoubleClick, Guitar Center, HCA, Sealy, The Sports Authority, Toys R Us, Unisource, Warner Music Group and The Weather Channel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bain_Capital

Damn... that's a lot of boycotting.

[funflower]

3. Are these companies just LDS-owned or did they specifically support prop 8?

I'd hate to discriminate purely on the basis of religion.

And, um, is "H.J. Heinz" the catsup company owned in part by Theresa Heinz Kerry?

[curse of greyface]

10. Yup and their President of Asia is currently in Brazil converting the heathens.

http://www.mission.net/brazil/sao-paulo/north/presidents.php?prID=5476

I'm sorry is it okay for Heinz to hire bigots as their President because it's owned by the wife of a former candidate?

You want to stop the Mormon Church from funding hatred against gays. You might want to deal with the companies that give them all that money they used to overturn peoples marriages.

[funflower]

25. Isn't Marriot owned by LDS folk? n/t

[Merlot]

5. AmEx? Really?

Does this mean I can stop making payments?

[curse of greyface]

Their CFO is on the Mormon 100 as provided by the church.

http://www.ldsfilm.com/100/lds100.html

[lurky]

6. Are we boycotting Catholic-owned businesses too?

Because I'm pretty sure the Pope supported prop 8.

[originalpckelly]

18. Well that's it, no more Pope's Soap on a Rope for me!

Although, I'm worried that other brands of soap won't help me get the man funk off after a night of hot gay sex.

[elocs]

8. I think that boycotts are great to make an individual feel good,

but I think they are usually ineffective unless they are very local. How do you hurt or punish the evil and nasty companies without hurting and punishing the thousands of innocent employees, the little people, who are just trying to get by and live their lives and don't have the freedom or luxury to share everbody's moral indignation?

[curse of greyface]

12. It makes more sense than boycotting a liberal film festival. nt

[elocs]

17. My point is that boycotts usually do no more than make the boycotter feel good

about what they are not doing. Compile an exhaustive list of every company that should be boycotted for one reason or another and there probably would not be many left.

[curse of greyface]

19. True but it would be nice if one of these Mormon poster boys felt enough heat

To publicly come out against bigotry.

[slampoet]

28. So the Montgomery Bus Boycott was just a feel good for blacks?

Boycotts work. You just don't know they work because corporations don't admit they work.


McDonalds boycott in the 80 eliminated styro-shells to wrap burgers, but of course McD's said the boycott had no effect on their decision, even though they'd delayed doing the right thing for Decades and caved in 4 months into the boycott.


Do you recall that Nestlie's was selling infected baby formula to the third world in the 70's ? Do you recall the Boycott?

No, because Nestlie's stopped the practice and refuses to admit they ever did it.



Did you ever learn the term DOLLAR VOTE in school?

[elocs]

30. Before you jump on my ass, why don't you read my post #8:

I think that boycotts are great to make an individual feel good,

but I think they are usually ineffective unless they are very local.

I also said "usually". What part of that is difficult for you to understand? I believe that for a boycott to be effective if must be specific and focussed and usually local and the examples you cited were specific and focussed and the Montgomery bus boycott was very local. Is my meaning clear to you now?

[FarCenter]

11. Madison Square Garden

The Dolan family are Mormon?

[curse of greyface]

14. Double checked Mormans out in 2004 will correct.

He founded Sports Capital Partners in Sep 2001. It is a consulting and investment service firm for sports teams and media assets. From 1994-2004, he was president of Madison Square Garden

[glinda]

15. Heinz Co is Teresa Kerry isn't it?

She is not a Mormon.

[curse of greyface]

20. No but one of her Presidents is currently in Brazil converting indians... see above. nt

[ColbertWatcher]

13. Are you sure? Can you post a link? n/t

[camera obscura]

16. Avista owns the Star Tribune in MN

[emilyg]

21. Silly.

[Dr.Phool]

22. I'm already boycotting all of them.

Because I ain't got any spare money to begin with.

Except for my AMEX card, which is also my Costco card.

[Jed Dilligan]

23. As of 25 January 2002.

Most CEOs don't last seven years, do they?

[slutticus]

24. Is "Morman" the new "Moran"?

:D

[doc03]

26. Thom Hartman has a theory on the Mormons

opposition to Prop. 8. He said Mitt Romney is leading the Mormon charge on Prop. 8 in order to make the Mormons acceptable to the Christian Right. He also said that the people in the McCain campaign that are dissing Palin are the former Romney supporters. He thinks Romney is trying to eliminate Sarah palin as a contender and suck up to the Christian Right for his POTUS run in 2012. Makes sense to me.

[UTUSN]

27. Black & Decker (my favorite CRAP quality)?!1 Michael DELL is ?!1 n/t

[Pavulon]

29. Whats novell, is that like banyan?(nt)

[curse of greyface]

31. Major Linux developer. NT