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Culture
Rally for Decency Held at Video Porn Dealer's Headquarters
Randy Sharp
Special Projects Director, AFA
December 11, 2000
This past weekend the American Family Association conducted a rally for decency, near the headquarters of Movie Gallery, 900 W. Main Street in Dothan, Alabama. Movie Gallery is the nation’s third largest video rental store chain. Over 250 supporters participated in the rally.
Don Wildmon, AFA president, said the 960 store chain is a major distributor of hard-core pornography in America. Wildmon also criticized Movie Gallery for defending their business practices as simply supplying the public with what they want, calling it, “drug-dealer logic.”
AFA scheduled the rally to kick off a twelve state alliance of pro-family leaders calling for citizens to stop doing business with Movie Gallery.
American Family Association has led successful boycotts of porn dealers for the past two decades. In 1986, Southland Corporation announced it would be pulling pornographic magazines out of 4,500 7-Eleven stores, after being hit with an AFA boycott. Wildmon said in the 1990s, boycott measures led K-Mart to exit the porn business. In 1998, AFA was instrumental in getting pornography removed from U.S. military exchange bases. “In the year 2000, Movie Gallery has become the rival of family values and common decency. We will respond by encouraging America to shop elsewhere,” said Wildmon.
Speakers for the rally included Sandy Meadows, president of Kids Hurt Too, an organization that works with helping children who have been sexually abused by men who use pornography, and John Giles, President of Christian Coalition of Alabama.
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