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AFA ActivismAction Alert - June 8, 2001JC Penney Snubs Family Concerns About KingdomBuy.comFTD.com, Avon.com & Wal-Mart .com reverse their decisions
Many thanks to those who have contacted retailers that dropped KingdomBuy.com after Yahoo! sex club members threatened a boycott. KingdomBuy was targeted because of its affiliation with AFA, whose actions recently caused Yahoo! to remove much of the pornography from its Internet servers. The email campaign portrayed KingdomBuy.com and AFA as "pro-censorship organizations" attempting to "strip people of their freedoms." According to WorldNetDaily, one member of the Yahoo club who joined the campaign to punish AFA wrote, "There are many in the world who feel that it is destructive of the human spirit to teach that all masturbation, all fornication and all homosexual behavior are sins against God. We would like our children not to be exposed to such teachings." The same reader now feels his participation in the campaign was misguided. "As far as I am concerned, the specific purpose of the effort was to attempt to reduce the power of the American Family Association organization to impose its particular philosophy and its will on the rest of the world. It now appears that our effort may have had negative consequences for people and organizations other than the AFA. If that is indeed the case, I for one sincerely regret that, and last night and today there is discussion in the club wherein a number of people are expressing regret over that unintended consequence," the club member wrote. JC Penney canceled its relationship with KingdomBuy.com on May 18. However, Jeanine Connolly, public relations manager for JC Penney.com, said she knew nothing about the email campaign by sex club members. When told that May 18 was five days after the email campaign began, she insisted that the two were unrelated, saying JC Penney's decision was based on "sound business grounds." JC Penney.com has circulated an internal memo to their "Call Centers" that includes the following question and answer: "Why has JC Penney.com decided to terminate its relationship with KingdomBuy.com? As part of our standard operating procedures, we periodically review the performance of all affiliates to ensure that they are fulfilling our business objectives. This routine performance review resulted in the cancellation of the KingdomBuy.com affiliate relationship on May 18, 2001. Our decision was based on sound business grounds and was not influenced by the nature of the KingdomBuy.com site nor the views of any outside group or individuals." Gary Sutton, president of KingdomBuy, told AFA Journal that his online mall "made thousands of dollars a month for JC Penney since the partnership began." "Just what were those 'sound business grouds?'" he said. "We have contacted JC Penney repeatedly to try to find out why they dropped KingdomBuy.com, but they've never responded to us." ACTION NEEDEDPlease contact JC Penney again and politely ask them to join Ftd.com, Avon.com and Wal-Mart.com in re-joining KindgomBuy.com. However, a first step should be to extend a simple professional courtesy to KingdomBuy.com President Gary Sutton by contacting him with an explanation about their cancellation. Mr. Sutton's phone number is 972.864.0225 ext. 229.J.C. Penney Company, Inc. Vanessa Castagna, Executive Vice President 6501 Legacy Dr. Plano, TX 75024-3698 Phone: 972-431-1000 Customer Relations: 972-431-8200 Fax: 972-431-1362 Please contact Wal-Mart.com and Ftd.com to thank them for reversing their decisions and rejoining KingdomBuy.com. Walmart.com Attn. Mr. Ted Kim 702 SW Eighth St. Bentonville, AR 72716 Phone: 650.837.5667 Fax: 501-273-1917 FTD Mike Soenen, President 3113 Woodcreek Drive Downers Grove, IL 60515 Phone: 800.736.3383 AFA encourages you to show your support for KingdomBuy.com and the many companies who have not buckled to the sex club scheme by shoppping at the AFA online mall.
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