- Target:
- AMC Cinemas
- Region:
- United States of America
- Website:
- www.amctheatres.com
AMC theater at Valley View Mall in Dallas Texas has repeatedly run right-wing and anti-gay promotions before movie showings. Of course they have every legal right to do so. They have run ads for Glenn Beck as well as "Focus on the Family," an evangelical Christian group devoted to denying gay people the same rights as others.
Focus on the Family was founded by Rev. James Dobson, one of the original instigators of the now-unconstitutional "Defense of Marriage Act." Rev. Dobson also founded FOF's sister organization, for lobbying purposes, "Family Research Council," which until 1992 was a division of FOF, and which is listed as a "hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center for its explicitly anti-gay agenda. Although AMC is free to promote any kind of film or viewpoint they like, many in their audience are very likely offended and insulted by those ads.
People go to the movies to be entertained, not to be insulted or confronted by organized bigotry.
We are simply asking them, from a business perspective, to cease running ads from any organization remotely affiliated with any known Hate Groups.
We, the undersigned, call on AMC theaters to stop running ads from anti-gay organizations before movie showings. Some AMC theaters have repeatedly run right-wing and anti-gay promotions among movie previews before showings.
Although you have every legal right to do so, please consider what you are doing. People go to the movies to be entertained, not to be insulted or confronted by organized bigotry. Many of your customers are very likely offended and insulted by those ads.
Your cinema at Valley View Mall in Dallas Texas, on Christmas day ran an anti-marriage equality ad from "Focus on the Family," an evangelical Christian group devoted to denying gay people the same rights as others. Focus on the Family was founded by Rev. James Dobson, one of the original instigators of the now-unconstitutional "Defense of Marriage Act." Rev. Dobson also founded FOF's sister organization, for lobbying purposes, "Family Research Council," which until 1992 was a division of FOF, and which is listed as a "hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center for its explicitly anti-gay agenda.
What company knowingly runs ads that insult its own audience? Please stop running any ads from any group affiliated with a known Hate Group. As you know, this concern has been expressed to you in writing, and your representative responded that the Focus on the Family ad "does meet our criteria for advertising."
Please CHANGE THAT CRITERIA.
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The AMC Theaters: Stop Running Ads from Anti-Gay Groups at Movies petition to AMC Cinemas was written by Private Person and is in the category Civil Rights at GoPetition.