A December update: The battle for decency at the local mall

By: Steve Huston

Providing the update re: The battle for decency at the local mall
*** An interview with Onenews.com – Charlie Butts the interviewer
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=334664

** ADA Frontline
https://americandecency.org/resources/newsletters/2008/nwdecember08.pdf

The battle for decency at the local mall

Though this newsletter is top heavy with information regarding those who are using untoward means to shove perversion down our throats – coercing the culture to incorporate homosexual lifestyles and same-sex marriages upon us – we continue to work behind the scenes reminding mall owners and mall shops that decency at the shopping mall is important. We continue to document our concerns at various malls – particularly in West Michigan where we reside. Here are a few highlights of our efforts on this front. In regard to the Lakes Mall (CBL Associates & Properties) in Muskegon, Michigan, we expressed concern about several erotic Victoria’s Secret displays they featured over a couple year time frame, urging the mall manager to replace them with something more appropriate. As they continued to ignore our requests, ADA sent letters including copies of the concerning displays to each store manager within the mall. We urged them to recognize that their mall was being degraded. We urged them to express their concerns to the mall manager and to the manager at Victoria’s Secret.In addition, we let them know that if there weren’t efforts to back away from the pornographic displays, that we would be calling for a boycott – not just of Victoria’s Secret – but of the entire mall the day after Thanksgiving and going forward throughout the Christmas season.

Within days, we received a letter from the law offices of Houghtaling, Wasiura, and Catalino, P.L.C. saying in short: “Do not contact the Mall again regarding this matter.

You should address your concerns to us as well as to Victoria’s Secrets management.”

In the meantime, the particularly concerning black and white window displays have come down. You may recall that on February 28 a spokesperson for Victoria’s Secret (corp) stated that VS had become “too sexy” and had gotten away from their heritage. They gave indication that they were going to be toning down the manner in which they advertise.

ADA has continued (as recently as November 17) to monitor our local malls attempting to determine if, in fact, there is a toning down.As you also may recall, on different occasions in recent years we have brought pressure upon General Growth Properties, the second largest rentor of mall space in America. We have urged them to encourage
Victoria’s Secret to tone down their wall and window displays. The Grand Rapids Press carried an article on November 12, 2008 that was entitled “Rivertown Crossings owner now desperate.

General Growth faces bankruptcy if it cannot renogotiate debt.”The articles states that General Growth Properties is scrambling to refinance $1 billion debt due next month.

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A comment from someone not pleased with our work:
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This is a message for Bill Johnson, the spokesman for American Decency.

You may feel the need to exercise your right to boycott Victoria’s Secret but that doesn’t mean you have the right to tell me what to do. You are using the power of the internet and your “so-called” website to influence the thousands of “sheeple” that visit your site into beleiving that this lingerie company is doing something wrong.

My belief is that you and people like you are trying to take away capitalism in our society and turn everyone into mindless zombies that follow your will.

Try this…try using the power of the internet to create peace, save lives, or cure cancer. Do something GOOD for our society; there are plenty of non-Americans who are against our “Western ways”, don’t become part of the problem, become the solution.

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American Decency Association
Bill Johnson, President
P.O. Box 202
Fremont, MI 49412
ph: 231-924-4050
https://americandecency.org

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