More information comes to light about Curves' founder and anti-abortion

[tzikeh]

From the "Don't believe everything you read" department:

http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2004/05/19/curves/index.html

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Comments

[destina.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It'd be nice if all the people who threw up links to the first articles would post this, too, but their agendas are blocking their access to their keyboards, apparently.

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

I really hope this is not directed at me. ):

I will be linking to the Salon article after I've finished reading it. I still find what has been found to be true -- the organizations Heavin does contribute to -- disturbing enough to prevent me patronizing Curves.

[batdina.livejournal.com]

I always have mixed feelings about stuff like this. On the first hand, I'm not a Curves member, nor am I in their demographic, so it was just information to me, in one ear and out the other. On the second hand though, rather like Dominoes in the 80s, this guy's personal money comes from Curves, and in a world where money talks, what I want is to get to choose where my money talks. So if I were in Curves' demographic, I'd still not join them, because even if the clinics he supports aren't the nasty dead fetus toting close down abortion clinics kind of clinics, I'd still rather support MY clinics.

And quite honestly, people who own his franchises get what they get if they buy from someone without checking him out first. Because pro-choice isn't necessarily pro-abortion, but pro-life *is* necessarily anti-choice.

[Side note: in Berkeley, the Dominoes Pizza franchises got an imicable divorce from the head office in order to stay open in an environment that was killing them financially. I suspect that the Curves in Rockridge mentioned in this article will have to do the same thing if it wants to stay in business there.]

[destina.livejournal.com]

No, it absolutely isn't. :) I'm thinking of some of the rabid rants I read after the story first broke, many of which were in blogs not on LJ. Personally, I'm not much for boycotts or refusing to use organizations or products based on what their owner supports, except in some extreme cases. Folks have a right to do as they like with their money, and I don't generally consider their personal decisions in that regard when I choose whether or not to use business services they provide. That's why bandwagons sometimes get on my nerves.

You, however, have never been part of the bandwagon mentality. :)

[batdina.livejournal.com]

Yeah. What you said, much more succinctly than I.

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

::whew:: I wouldn't like to think I'd lost your good opinion.

I appreciate your position on this. I'm feeling very vague and waffly about my own, which I've now posted.