Not that there's anything wrong with this...but BP just offered a list of Disney movies that "you may have missed during the boycott."
The publication of this article conveys the same naivety shared by the secular public, which believes that many Bible-thumping, Jesus-loving folks actually took part in the boycott. I can honestly communicate that in the three states I lived in during (or immediately before and after the boycott) -- and two of which are Southern Baptist "strongholds" -- I met or knew a sum total of zero people who took part in the commerce-oriented protest. And this lack of participation was not due to compromisingly accepting the secular moral (or amoral, as the case may be) principles that Disney Corp adopted, it was because people -- regular, average, every day people -- were more interested in supporting what Disney did well and not what they didn't. So that's what they did, instead of a full-on boycott.
Boycott or not, what the Southern Baptist laity did do during the past 8 years reflects much about who Southern Baptists really are...a priesthood of believers responsible for their own decisions and inclined to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit independently, while cooperating together for the sake of God's mission.
That's the Baptist way.
August 18, 2005 7:02 PM