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[sraun]

The American Family Association is having a 'tell American Businesses how you feel about corporations that support the "homosexual agenda". It's at http://www.afa.net/petitions/businesses/businesses.asp.

When I filled it out, the numbers were:

Be more likely to do business with that company. 1,019
Be less likely to do business with that company. 52,707
It would not affect my buying decision. 915

Comments

[pgdudda.livejournal.com]

My first instinct when I hear the phrase "homosexual agenda" is to ask, "What agenda?"

...then I remember that some people think that the notion that all human beings should be treated with a modicum of respect and dignity is a dangerous idea that must be marginalized by labeling it as an "agenda".

*grumble*

[adina-atl.livejournal.com]

Agenda

1. Corrupt children
2. Take over world
3. Make cookies
4. New business

[azurelunatic]

I voted!

[dsgood.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

My response might not be what they hoped for.

[jiawen]

I'd like to vote, but there's no way I'm going to give them my e-mail address.

A lot of this kind of voting works this way:

1. Put out some artificial binary that (especially in this case) may even be based on false principles
2. Get people inflamed either for or against your position
3. Angry people give you their information
4. Use this information to further your own goals
5. Profit!

Not even the usual "3. ???" step needed.

And the fact that the responses have been largely in favor of their idiotic agenda mostly just shows that their website primarily gets viewed by people who support their idiotic agenda.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

When I voted it was
Be more likely to do business with that company. 1,479
Be less likely to do business with that company. 74,688
It would not affect my buying decision. 1,222

[desert-vixen.livejournal.com]

The numbers are about doubled for the first two and about 500+ for the third.

DV

[gomeza.livejournal.com]

Those people have done this sort of thing before. On at least one occasion, word REALLY got around, they got a lot of the "wrong" kinds of responses, ie; not the answers they were hoping for, and scrapped the whole "poll" since clearly it had been "tampered with".

Fuck the AFA.

[falcongirl.livejournal.com]

Hi - you don't know me. I found your journal when I was looking up numbers for the afa.net poll. As of 4/24 - 4/25, the numbers had been static for hundreds of people with a huge bias toward the afa agenda. The poll is currently suspected by many as being a total scam, especially since the click to confirm link subscribed people to the AFA mailing list.

Yours is the only site I've found where the numbers changed. If you got screenshots, would you please post them?
Thanks!
-T