Your emails do make a difference! Annie Chun pulls ad

By: American Decency Staff

For the last several weeks we were monitoring The Learning Channel’s perverse program “Sister Wivesâ€Â which promoted and attempted to normalize polygamy. In our email alerts, we urged you to join with us in writing emails to the many sponsors. Many of you did.See: Sister Wives:  Of sorrow and sense https://americandecency.org/archives/sister-wives-of-sorrow-and-cents/#more-4623 Suppressing the Truth https://americandecency.org/archives/suppressing-the-truth/#more-4604 TLC’s “Sister Wivesâ€Â – A wolf in sheep’s clothing https://americandecency.org/archives/a-wolf-in-sheep-clothing/#more-4591 Annie Chun, Inc. wrote the following in response to your letters: Jasmine Asuncion Marketing and Sales Assistant Annie Chun's Inc. www.anniechun.com October 15, 2010 We have received your email regarding Annie Chun's commercial on the Sister Wives show on The Learning Channel.  When we purchased our advertising we did so utilizing a system of purchasing cost effective time on a variety of channels.  We did not specifically pick Sister Wives as a show that we wanted to target.  It was just part of a larger media buy. We feel that this show is not in line with the brand image of Annie Chun's and have asked our media purchasing company to block Sister Wives from any additional spot placement with the local cable operators.  This unfortunately does not guarantee 100% compliance across the entire foot print but we are confident that this request will be honored wherever possible and spots will be moved to other shows. Please know our best efforts are being made. Best Regards, Mike Keeland President, CEO Annie Chun's Inc. We also wanted to share with you an individualized letter appealing to Annie Chun to do what’s right. Now think personally for a moment.  Are you ok with your spouse taking up with another partner and including you in the deal? Are you ok with your boyfriend or girlfriend taking up with someone else?  A normal reaction to this happening is outrage or good, old-fashioned jealousy.  By sponsoring Sister Wives, are you trying to tell us that we should not have these feelings when betrayed? Or are you trying to portray a kinder-gentler society that has no deep feelings of love and commitment and what that entails? How can we be so sympathetic to the Canadian goose — that mates for life — and turn around and condone a lifestyle that surely (you know it) behind the scenes is rife with jealousy, positioning, family politics?  Even the kids in the family know all about this aspect, because they are caught in the middle (not by choice). Just read the book cover of the book "Escape" by Carolyn Jessop to get some perspective of how hellish this lifestyle is.  (You can see it on Amazon.com)  Better yet, please read the book. As a consumer, I desire to support companies that are not actively working to oppose my value system.   The television program a company chooses to sponsor affects whether or not I choose to buy that product or patronize that business. And so, as a potential customer, I am contacting you to let you know how disgusted I am that your company would sponsor such an objectionable show.  Marriage and family form the bedrock of society.  By aligning with such an illegal, repugnant concept as polygamy, you are trampling long held values.  Society loves these values (inherent in the Canadian goose) because they speak to our internal values: to love and be loved. I urge you to pull support from this program.  I look forward to your response. Our office also received a phone call from Disney.  The short version is the Disney representative congratulated us on a successful project.  He stated they were inundated with expressions of concern. Thanks for standing with us.  We’d like to share with you another way where you could really help us.  It is by standing with us to help get us over the top on a $15,000 match challenge that we were offered. Here are the details on this generous challenge: The offer states: We will match any new or increased gifts given from 8/1/10 through 12/31/10 up to a total of $15,000. A new gift is any amount given by someone who has not given in 2009 or 2010.  An increased gift is any amount given by an individual that exceeds the amount the person gave in 2009 (you would add all 2010 gifts  from an individual and all 2009 gifts from that person and we would match the excess amount of 2010). *********** There are numbers of people receiving this email who care deeply about this ministry and the concerns that we focus upon.  Your help right now can help us get over the top!  Will you help us today to reach that end? Here is where we are at as of yesterday: Total received  $11,911.00 (79.41%) Match Grant     $15,000.00

Yet needed:  $3,089.00  (20.59%)
Thanks for standing with us: Donate online: https://secure4.afo.net/ada/donate.php American Decency Association P.O. Box 202 Fremont MI 49412 American Decency Association is a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability. ———————— A classic resource available as short supply lasts: “The Holiness of Godâ€Â by R.C. Sproul. To order your free copy, email bjohnson@americandecency.org Many of you took advantage of our offer regarding the book “The Pursuit of Holinessâ€Â by Jerry Bridges. This is what Jerry Bridges has to say about this book offer “Every Christian who is serious about his or her growth needs to read ‘The Holiness of God.’ I profited greatly from this book.â€Â American Decency Association Bill Johnson, President P.O. Box 202 Fremont, MI 49412 ph: 231-924-4050 https://americandecency.org/ http://www.twitter.com/billwjohnson

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