Outsidepride.com, bashing gay gardeners since 2006

As many of you know, the owner of Outsidepride.com (a gardening supply website), sent out the following letter to everyone on the company mailing list:

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OK, I normally avoid all politically-motivated boycotts like the plague. But I sent him this letter:

Dear sir,

 

As I sit here, a straight woman from the heart of the Bible Belt and read your message of hatred, (forwarded to me from someone on your company's mailing list)--I have some words of advice for you:

 

1) Don't assume that everyone on your mailing list shares any of your political or religious views. They don't.

 

2) Neither "Without a Trace" nor "Cold Case" are wholesome family viewing. They are ADULT dramas, featuring ADULT situations (at least, to the limits of network TV). You want wholesome family viewing? Watch the ABC Family Channel.

 

3) Many of the episodes of these shows feature rape, murder, child and spousal abuse, and drug abuse. (Wholesome family viewing, remember?) And yet you objected to them showing healthy same-sex relationships. If by simply seeing the approximately 1.75 hours of these viewpoints you feel your children have been irreparably scarred, it sounds like you need to worry about your parenting, not what they see on TV.

 

4) These shows are re-runs. They've been out there (so to speak) for months, and I haven't seen a sudden upsurge of gayness anywhere. And when they showed originally? I didn't hear a peep from any "family values" groups. So it's just you.

 

5) Move down here to the Bible Belt. I'm sure the folks who wave the signs at the funerals of gay men that read "GAY = Got AIDS Yet" will welcome you with open arms.

 

In closing, I wanted to let you know that I have made sure everyone on a couple of thousand-plus-member mailing lists I subscribe to now know about this letter. Many of them garden. And they will tell their friends, and so on.

 

The Internet is Watching.

 

Sincerely,

Lillian Butler

I sent it to his email address on the website: troyh@outsidepride.com.
If you want to contact him through his company's website, here is the link.