phreddd | barefoot on the couch

I recently sent the following via the comment page on the website of Bolthouse Farms of Bakersfield, California...

Over the years, I've seen the need to improve my health through proper diet and exercise. On more than a few occasions, your baby-cut and whole carrots have ended up in my shopping cart, and in my regular daily diet. In light of some recent news - that of William J. Bolthouse's recent substantial donation toward the California ballot initiative to restrict marriage to one man and one woman - I find I will have to reconsider further purchases of your products.

Put simply, I cannot in good conscience continue to support a product whose purveyors would so willingly deny me, as a man who just happens to love another man, the basic right to take what for many is a logical step in codifying a long-standing relationship (7 years and counting, in the case of my boyfriend and myself). Also, as a resident of a state that went through this same ugly drama just 2 years ago, I can't see supporting a company whose chief executives are so willing to assist in subjecting the voting public to more hateful and insulting political rhetoric than is already out there. I understand that your corporate philosophy is supposed to be in line with Biblical scriptures, but I didn't know that suppressing the individual rights of your fellow taxpaying citizens was sanctioned in any verse in the Bible, or that discrimination of any form had become Christ-like behavior to encourage in any way. I sincerely hope you reconsider your choice of positions to fund. Thank you, and God Bless...

No response yet... we'll see.