I am going to click on your link to ExtremeRestraints, though. I'm intrigued.

Consider this hypothetical: if you could choose between bankrupting the religious right permanently or changing the minds permanently of everyone to the left of them, which would you choose? The answer to that question clarifies the right tactics here.

Granted, these are xtian fundies, not high on the evolutionary scale, but still....

And this is what's really fishy: You don't need a credit card number to verify identity in a web transaction. You can do it via an address or phone number verification service, in real time. And the cost to the merchant is negligble. They use it at the company that just laid me off.

Moral High Ground,

You're making a massive assumption that these foaming-at-the-mouth wrong wingers have minds to change. They don't, and they've made it perfectly clear that no reason, compassion or logic can ever get through to them.

And the people in the middle are either openly hostile or at best apathetic.

#3). Perhaps.

#5). Yeah, these fuckers make millions.

#6). What do you think they're going to publicize this? Besides, the lines have already been drawn, and sympathy for the fags ain't comin based on preemptive non-actions, i.e. they'll like us better for something they aren't expecting us to do if we do it.

#7). If they do fuck with your credit card, all the better: it gives you legal recourse against FOTF.

#9). Has anyone tried it?

#10). It ins't a church, it's a "para-church," and a non-profit, which makes their giving away of free shit requisite, if not a bit dicey.

#s 11-13). I have no idea what you're talking about, but let us know if it works.

If it isn't abundantly clear already, let me spell it out for you. There may be a place for your holier-than-thou opinion on the matter, but this isn't it. If you don't want to fleece these festering shit bogs for the price of a Narnia DVD, then by all means don't. But shut the fuck up about it already.

They're never gonna take a real hit from this financially. And the organization is to busy trying to turn people straight that they'll never do anything to combat the zero dollar donation issue. If anything, people that actually agree with and like FOTF will donate more because they feel upset that some "gay assholes" out there donate zero dollars. Everything evens out in the end and I feel some pride in making extra cash for doing nothing. Everyone wins.

If they are sincere in the their mission, they should WANT me to have these products so they can convert my sinful soul.

Unfortunately, unlike them, I understand allegory, so that's not gonna work. But I do like the Narnia stories!