“Lurker or plant” are your words, not mine.

Nonetheless, I would also appreciate if Mr. Karger would respond to the concerns being posted here, so to clarify any misinterpretations or misperceptions about the boycott itself.

Way to stay focused on the issue, Nelson G.

PS. Dunno how much you post to boards and the like, but “dirty words” are often filtered out, so I’ve made a habit out of substituting characters to avoid triggering them. Though I still don’t see how that in any way has anything to do with absolutely anything…

And yeah – this whole thing still stinks. No more information, no updates. Just don’t smell right…

Not good. That’s a good way to become irrelevant.

The reasons provided are not sufficient for ending the boycott. Agreeing to comply with the sound HR policies most fortune 500 companies have in force, hardly makes up for $100,000 to hurt our families.

Mr. Karger, your reputation is on the line here. Either the boycott was as trivial as the published conditions for ending it are, or something is wrong.

If the boycott was so trivial a matter that these minor changes justify calling it off, then no one should take future calls for boycotts by CAH seriously.

I called Toyota, I called the Garff owned dealership I’d been a customer at for years, telling them I would not be a customer anymore. Now, with nothing substantial, I’m supposed to forget $100,000 to hurt my family?

Don’t pull a Geof Kors – no secrets, no closets.

That said or wrote, I don’t know Mr. Karger, personally. Given that he was the one who initiated the boycott, I will accept that he is satisfied with the ending result and congratulate him for a job well done.

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Why decline? Are you afraid we would know you took a powder?

I think gotommy was right when he suggested a donation to a GLBT organization as a good faith gesture.

I thought the idea of a boycott was to financially effect the dealership. Did that happen or are they just afraid of the bad PR and pretended to make nice to appease us homos?

Am I missing something?

What exactly did you get in exchange? A promise to adopt a non-discrimination policy at their dealerships? What does it mean to “pretty much already” have a non-discrimination policy anyway? Did you share a hearty chuckle at that nutty ol’ battle-axe Mom and her whimsical $100,000 “personal gestures”?

How about a matching donation to an AIDS charity or to organizations that now must fight to defeat this monster he and his family helped to create. How about a wad of cash to support a GLBT youth center in his city?

“We promise not to fire any fags we find working at our dealerships. I mean, we already *pretty much* don’t fire ‘em when we find em now.”

That’s what you got? That’s not penance. That’s not setting things right. That’s lip service.

You had an “open and honest” discussion…pointing out that gays are human beings capable of complex thought and feeling, and deserving of the same civil rights they have…and you think they “understand now why this was upsetting and hurtful to many people.”

What are they…5 year olds? Did you teach them to put their underpants on first and to look both ways before crossing the street?

Unless the boycott extracted more than a “I had no idea” and a “my bad” from these folks, then I don’t see why you’re calling it off. This isn’t summer camp – we’re not sitting around campfire singing Kumbaya. This is war – and they started it.

Money talks, bullsh*t walks. They need to put their money where their mouths are. Unless there’s more to this deal, it sounds to me like you just took a hike.