J.C. Penney is experiencing substantial losses following the company’s continued promotion of the homosexual lifestyle.
The American Family Association reports that J.C. Penney has lost 50% of its stock value since February when it named Ellen DeGeneres as its spokesperson. The organization outlines that in February, stock prices stood at $41.32, but in May, when the popular retailer publicized an ad of a lesbian couple in its Mother’s Day catalog, stock fell to $35.67. Last month, when Penney’s ran an ad featuring two homosexuals in their Father’s Day catalog, stock continued to plummet to $25.83. Its current value stands at just $20.02 a share.
Additionally, the financial services group Standard and Poor, which rates companies in order to help stockholders decide which investments are most profitable, recently lowered J.C. Penney to “junk” status.
In May, The Columbus Dispatch reported that the company was “wiping away $1.43 billion in marketing value a day.”
As a result of its continued losses, the retailer has been forced to cut 350 jobs at its home office and has fired its marketing executive as being partly to blame for its downfall.
However, according to statements made in The Columbia Dispatch, it does not seem that J.C. Penney is attributing its decreasing support to its promotion of the homosexual lifestyle.
“It is not doing the hard work we need it to do right now,” chief executive Ron Johnson said of the company’s advertising practices.
“I don’t see people in the stores,” stated Gilford Securities analyst Bernard Sosnick.
J.C. Penney, which is headquartered in Plano, Texas, was founded by James Cash Penney, a Christian who desired to found his company on Christian values.
“The assumption was that business is secular, and service is religious. I have never been able to accept that line of arbitrary demarcation,” he stated in 1908 in an ad for what once was called The Golden Rule Store. “Is not service part and parcel of business? It seems to me so; business is therefore as much religious as it is secular. If we follow the admonition to love God, and our neighbors as ourselves, it will lead us to understand that, first of all, success is a matter of the spirit.”
Source: Christian News.net
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Christian Student Ordered to Undergo Homosexual Sensitivity Training Loses Suit
A federal judge in Georgia has dismissed the lawsuit of a college student who contested her university’s demand that she attend a remediation program in support of the homosexual lifestyle.
Jennifer Keeton says that she was was enrolled in Augusta State University’s Counselor Education Program in 2010, when she was reprimanded by officials for reportedly making statements against homosexuality both in and out of the classroom. She was then told that unless she underwent a remediation plan, which entailed sensitivity training activities such as attending diversity workshops, attending homosexual pride events, writing papers about tolerance and counseling homosexual students, she could not continue in her studies.
She states that at first, she agreed to work things out with the university, but later decided that she could not go through with the requirement.
“I really want to stay in the program,” Keeton wrote to faculty in an email, “But I don’t want to have to attend all the events about what I think is not moral behavior, and then write reflections on them that don’t meet your standards because I haven’t changed my views or beliefs… My biblical views won’t change.”
That same year, the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) filed a lawsuit on Keeton’s behalf.
Late last month, U.S. District Judge Randal Hall dismissed the suit, stating:
“Keeton’s conflation of personal and professional values, or at least her difficulty in discerning the difference, appears to have been rooted in her opinion that the immorality of homosexual relations is a matter of objective and absolute moral truth. … One conspicuous and abiding theme of the American story is that individuals like Jennifer Keeton are free to choose their own spiritual path, and need brook no government trespass thereon. The Constitution guarantees that the heart may pulse to meters of its own design, deaf to public cadence. But when affairs of the conscience ripen into action – either speech or conduct –- government is granted leave to regulate in behalf of certain public interests, including education and professional fitness.”
“A public university student shouldn’t be threatened with expulsion for being a Christian and refusing to publicly renounce her faith, but that’s exactly what’s happening here. Simply put, the university is imposing thought reform,” said ADF Senior Counsel David French after the lawsuit was filed. “Abandoning one’s own religious beliefs should not be a precondition at a public university for obtaining a degree. This type of leftist zero-tolerance policy is in place at far too many universities, and it must stop. Jennifer’s only crime was to have the beliefs that she does.”
Source: Christian News.net
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