Comments on: Visiting San Diego? http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/04/23/1861 News, analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:56:00 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: The Unending Hypocrisy of the Religious « High Desert Musings http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/04/23/1861/comment-page-1#comment-47940 The Unending Hypocrisy of the Religious « High Desert Musings Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:55:26 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/04/23/1861#comment-47940 [...] San Diego hotelier Doug Manchester, whose $125,000 donation to support California’s Prop 8 sparked a boycott against his Manchester Hyatt and San Diego Marriot hotels and Grand Del Mar and White Tail Club [...] [...] San Diego hotelier Doug Manchester, whose $125,000 donation to support California’s Prop 8 sparked a boycott against his Manchester Hyatt and San Diego Marriot hotels and Grand Del Mar and White Tail Club [...]

]]> By: Truth Wins Out - Hotel Millionaire Moralist and Prop 8 Supporter to Divorce Wife http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/04/23/1861/comment-page-1#comment-47805 Truth Wins Out - Hotel Millionaire Moralist and Prop 8 Supporter to Divorce Wife Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:01:09 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/04/23/1861#comment-47805 [...] that San Diego hotelier Doug Manchester, whose $125,000 donation to support California’s Prop 8 sparked a boycott against his Manchester Hyatt and San Diego Marriot hotels, is divorcing his wife of 43 years. He [...] [...] that San Diego hotelier Doug Manchester, whose $125,000 donation to support California’s Prop 8 sparked a boycott against his Manchester Hyatt and San Diego Marriot hotels, is divorcing his wife of 43 years. He [...]

]]> By: cowboy http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/04/23/1861/comment-page-1#comment-9667 cowboy Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:59:03 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/04/23/1861#comment-9667 I just got back from SoCal two weeks ago. Admittedly it was warmer than where I spend my winters but it was hardly sunny. Please tell me if the Marriott on Coronado Island is part of the same Doug Manchester owned property? I’ll use my Marriott points elsewhere if it is. But, let’s see if boycotting really works. Utah’s Larry H. Miller businesses has not hurt since we boycotted his establishments after his callous remarks about gays and his abrupt withdrawal from showing <b>Brokeback Mountain </b> in his mega-movie-theater complexes. In fact, it brought publicity to LHM and that meant <b> free advertising</b>…the opposite effect of a boycott. And, I will still not buy a vehicle from LHM in spite of his multi-million-dollar donation to the Huntsman Cancer Institute. But, I doubt his business ventures are even noticing a negative little blip on the profit/loss spreadsheets since the call for boycotting his establishments. It takes a whole lot more than shrill, whiny little voices to make a boycott work. I just got back from SoCal two weeks ago. Admittedly it was warmer than where I spend my winters but it was hardly sunny. Please tell me if the Marriott on Coronado Island is part of the same Doug Manchester owned property? I’ll use my Marriott points elsewhere if it is.

But, let’s see if boycotting really works. Utah’s Larry H. Miller businesses has not hurt since we boycotted his establishments after his callous remarks about gays and his abrupt withdrawal from showing Brokeback Mountain in his mega-movie-theater complexes. In fact, it brought publicity to LHM and that meant free advertising…the opposite effect of a boycott.

And, I will still not buy a vehicle from LHM in spite of his multi-million-dollar donation to the Huntsman Cancer Institute. But, I doubt his business ventures are even noticing a negative little blip on the profit/loss spreadsheets since the call for boycotting his establishments. It takes a whole lot more than shrill, whiny little voices to make a boycott work.

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