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Posted by: linuxgrl ® 01/13/2002, 03:00:09 Author Profile Mail author |
okay so I'm not going to work for a MLM. But my question remains unanswered. Is Melaleuca Inc. a Mormon owned/founded Corporation?? I found info. pointing to "yes" but I wound still like some hard fact |
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Posted by: Briandc ®
01/14/2002, 15:21:26
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I guess it depends on what you mean by Mormon owned. If you mean does an individual Mormon own it, I would say probably. I doubt that the church owns any part of the private company though. At least the company's President is almost certainly a LDS. He lives in Idaho, and the article below discusses his views on homosexuality.
Businessman says protestors misread billboard campaign
07/07/2001
Associated Press Newswires
Copyright 2001. The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) - Nearly two years have passed since business executive Frank VanderSloot spearheaded a billboard campaign against Idaho Public Television for airing a documentary on homosexuality, and some have not forgotten.
As many as a dozen protesters gathered outside the Shilo Inn in Idaho Falls last week while the president of Melaleuca Inc. held his annual Fourth of July party inside.
"This was totally a grass-roots thing," said R. Kay Snyder, advocacy chairwoman for eastern Idaho's chapter of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays. She said she only heard about the soiree earlier in the day during the city's annual Fourth of July Parade.
It was the most visible gathering of eastern Idaho's homosexual community in a decade."I just loved it," Snyder said. "It was just a bunch of people who wanted to protest Mr. VanderSloot and tell him to be tolerant."
That is what VanderSloot takes offense at. In August 1999, his company and other unidentified backers financed 25 billboards in specific locations around the state to protest public television's airing of the documentary "It's Elementary" about how various school districts around the country handle the issue of homosexuality in the classroom.
VanderSloot said taxpayers, who subsidize more than a quarter of public television's annual budget, should not be paying for such programming - programming he warned would raise curiosities in small children that they should not have.
VanderSloot said he had not problem with last week's protesters and in fact "went over and shook hands with all of them, ... told them they were welcome to be here."
But he insists the billboards did not attack homosexuals but only questioned whether the use of tax money to promote a certain lifestyle. That, VanderSloot said, is what angers the homosexual community.
"If anybody makes any argument about what they are trying to do, that individual is attacked as a bigot," he said. "I believe we should be able to disagree with somebody."
And VanderSloot may not be finished. He is getting a tape of the documentary "Scouts Honor," which aired on public television last month. It examines a 12-year-old boy's efforts to overturn the Boy Scouts policy of excluding homosexuals.
"I'm certainly really, really supportive of the Boy Scouts' decision," he said.
In allowing the Boy Scouts to bar homosexuals as troop leaders in a ruling late last month, the U.S. Supreme Court did not specifically give the Scouts permission to bar homosexual boys from membership, but its language left room for that interpretation.
Sorry for posting the whole thing rpcman, but the publication library I got it from doesn't allow me to post links.
Kindly,
Brian
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Posted by: rpcman ®
01/15/2002, 13:51:31
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Sorry for posting the whole thing rpcman, but the publication library I got it from doesn't allow me to post links. No problem. Over here we don't have the bandwidth and disk space issues we did at 1reviews.com.
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Posted by: shooter ®
01/15/2002, 10:44:48
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There is nothing at all in a multi-level-marketing organization that remotely connects with gospel or christial principles. All of them are in opposition to revealed truth.
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