Don’t Get Bitter; Make Your Case

Jennifer Vanasco disapproves of the prop 8 boycotts:

A boycott is good when a company is bad. When it harasses its LGBT employees; fires them for being gay; will not promote them; sells anti-gay products or services (say an anti-gay t-shirt).

A boycott is bad when a company is being targeted because of the personal donations of someone in the company — especially when the company itself is pro-gay or gay neutral, as Cinemark is (it has high ranking, open gays in its leadership, it supports LGBT film festivals, it’s running Milk). Or, for example, Marriott — which, yes, is owned by a Mormon family, but which also scored 100 in the 2009 HRC Corporate Equality Index.