ALL is not going well for the US-based Christian Values Network, which recently launched a shopping portal for prats. Here’s the deal: shop with www.cvn.org, and a percentage of your spend goes to “good” Christian causes … such as virulently anti-gay outfits like Focus on the Family, Family Research Council, Summit Ministries, Abiding Truth Ministries and Liberty Counsel.
Earlier this month, Microsoft withdrew its name from CVN’s list of supporting companies after an online petition was created. It was entitled Microsoft: Stop raising money for anti-gay hate groups like Focus on the Family.
Microsoft dropped CVN like a hot potato, as did Macy’s, Wells Fargo, Delta Airlines, BBC America and others.
Today we learn that Apple has pulled out too, removing its iTunes store from the list after the company discovered CVN had made contributions to what the Southern Poverty Law Center has branded “active hate groups”.
When CVN launched its shopping portal in partnership with Spirit Media, SM’s Creative Director, Bill Dolan said:
The Christian Values Network is one of the first faith-based organizations I’ve seen that has the combination of great leadership, funding and a solid business plan to make this work.
Ummm …
Stephen Baldwin
Incidentally, Spirit Media boasts that among “high-profile” supporters of the CVN shopping portal is out-of-work actor and 24-carat loony Stephen “I’m a Jewish born-again Christian” Baldwin, who claims he is being persecuted for his religious beliefs, and is thus being deprived of work. This led to his filing for bankruptcy in 2009.
Baldwin hit the headlines when, as a Celebrity Big Brother contestant in the UK last year, he said:
What my faith requires is that if I, my wife and my two kids were sitting on a public bus, and somebody came on with a machine-gun and pointed it at my daughter and said to her, ‘Say Jesus doesn’t exist’… If she turned to me and said, ‘What do I do?’, I’d say, ‘What have I taught you to do?’ And she’d say, ‘Jesus absolutely exists’, and I’d see her in heaven.
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July 29th, 2011 at 9:21 am
Good news indeed!
July 29th, 2011 at 11:11 am
The thought of a load of probably rethuglican fundies being undone by the very free market they praise…
Priceless!
Barry Duke:
Re the page-loading issue Stonyground mentioned yesterday. I’m on my sister’s PC, which hasn’t accessed this site since Monday or Tuesday, and when I entered the site it was still showing that day’s story as top post, until I refreshed. Dunno what causes it, but it’s definitely a problem with the site, not the users’ computers. (Both PCs running Firefox; one on XP, the other on Vista.)
July 29th, 2011 at 11:16 am
Would somebody please persecute Stephen Baldwin! It’d make his day.
July 29th, 2011 at 11:46 am
Stephen Who?
July 29th, 2011 at 12:00 pm
You can see “teh stupid” just by looking into baldwin’s face.
It radiates lack of intelligence. He looks like he’d struggle to tie shoelaces.
Having seen him “act” – in the Flintsones movie sequel and it’s perhaps one of the worst crimes against taste and decency in cinematic history – I’m not surprised that he is not getting work.
July 29th, 2011 at 12:03 pm
Barry Duke – I experienced the same issue as reported by Daz this week.
July 29th, 2011 at 12:13 pm
I wonder does Stephen Baldwin mean he would kill his own daughter if she rejected his fake Jesus Christ to him. Nice man. Just proves actors like him and Tom Cruise are round the bend.
July 29th, 2011 at 12:17 pm
Re the page loading – I’ve never had an issue using good old explorer, with my cache set to check automatically. Perhaps worth checking.
On the gun pointing comment, as I understand the very middle of the road Christianity I left behind long ago, that is exactly what is required. Stupid I know, but there it is.
July 29th, 2011 at 12:27 pm
Disappointing, to say the least, that these big corporations would get into such deals without checking first to see who & what they were dealing with. Very careless.
Never had a page loading problem with this computer – Mac running OSX 10.5 and Firefox 3.6.19
July 29th, 2011 at 12:32 pm
Surely the name ‘christian values network’ should be viewed as an oxymoron?
Baldwin just loves the role of ‘persecuted’ christian doesn’t he? When he was on celebrity big brother he read bits of the bible and tried to convert the other contestants, and he wonders why he cannot get work. Could it just be that nobody wants to work with a pain in the arse.?
July 29th, 2011 at 1:50 pm
Is this the same idiot who used the “why are there still monkeys” arguement against evolution?
July 29th, 2011 at 2:07 pm
Stargraves.
Having seen him “act†– in the Flintsones movie sequel…
He thought he was making a documentary!
July 29th, 2011 at 2:35 pm
Elaine, they’re not just round the bend, they’re coming back around the other side.
July 29th, 2011 at 2:46 pm
Stephen Baldwin: living proof that if you lie to yourself hard enough for long enough, then fairy tales become true.
July 29th, 2011 at 2:55 pm
Go through Baldwin’s IMDB filmography – are you familiar with even about 20% of the pictures he starred in before revealing his born again Christian status in 2006? Me neither. I enjoyed him very much in ‘Threesome’ because I was in my mid-teens and thought he had a hot ass which he revealed rather a lot. The man quite clearly HAS been getting consistent work as a Christian, only he chose to open ministries rather than pay his mortgage.
Amused to see that he is rumoured to be have been cast in a film called ‘The Persecuted’.
July 29th, 2011 at 4:29 pm
One of the victims of the Columbine High massacre followed Baldwin’s advice.
July 29th, 2011 at 5:26 pm
Folks,
Sorry to go off topic, but there is a short but good article on the James Randi website about how psychics failed to predict the Norwegian massacre.
Here is the site http://www.randi.org
July 29th, 2011 at 5:28 pm
Stephen Baldwin’s bankruptcy has nothing to do with any lack of acting ability, of course, but everything to do with him standing up for his “Christian principles”. Religiot = “victim”, yet again!
http://youtu.be/QGpFqmi_28U
July 29th, 2011 at 7:01 pm
This story shows that secular efforts to expose the fundie organisations for the bigots they are, is paying off.
July 29th, 2011 at 11:57 pm
wow, a whole new level of crazy! I had not heard of the CVN, but have done a bit of reading up on it…i am now thoroughly outraged! lol
I thought christain values were all about “loving neighbours” and being “good samaritans”. The CVN certainly disagrees!
July 30th, 2011 at 4:48 am
Their channel IS showing its ‘christian values’. Those values being bogotry, hatred, fraud and the rest of the christian religiots roster of said ‘values’. Seems their completely hopeless god can’t even save his own fundraising cable channel. What good is it?
July 30th, 2011 at 8:10 pm
remigius said: (He thought he was making a documentary!)
LOL…priceless!