While I personally don't care who Chevrolet endorses or supports on tour, your headline is rather disingenuous. AHA (of which I am not a member) issues press releases and action notices on a number of topics on a regular basis. Your header is no more fair than if I were to say:
"With the world at war against Islamicist terror, many priests are molesting little boys!"
That said, if they did say anything about Islamicist terror, I imagine you wouldn't like what they have to say regarding religion in that instance.
Andy,
What strike me is the sheer triviality of the act. *This* is their first boycott? From my perspective, of course, it's time well wasted. But if I were in your shoes, I'd be irritated with them.
I a somewhat surprised by the UST professors comments that this is somehow improper. What, he would prefer they sponsor a gangsta rap concert?
Plenty of groups engage in what to others look like trivial matters - obviously to them, it's not trivial (although I think they might be slippery-sloping it a bit).
I respect Chevy's right as a private entity to do whatever it pleases with its money - as I think if they want to boycott, so be it, it's their money too. I can't imagine that selling 5 less Tahoes is going to bring down Chevy though.
Their boycott really isn't any different than when people like Don Wildmon, Pat Robertson, etc lament the cultural decline of television and protest sponsors. Doesn't matter all that much to me.
Well, the music might be better. 
(although, I'll admit I kind of like Jennifer Knapp - though she hasn't turned my heart of stone yet)
AHA seems to be following the example of any other special interest group, be it the Catholic League, Greenpeace, NRA, NARAL, etc. Such groups need to find controversies in order to energize its base and generate funding.
In the example of the Catholic League, too pick on my own, they do a great service, but imagine if they put the same effort and attention to challenging our incompetent bishops, who enabled molesters, instead of so much attention on no-name artists and movie producers seeking attention. Would we have a scandal of such magnitude today?
Special interest groups live on attention, and that is all the AHA is lamely seeking to do.
Dan
I think the concerts are in bad taste from a Christain perspective. As if the Christian faith hasn't been trivialized by commercialism enough already, now we have this.
Kind of reminds you of the New and Improved Jesus in Dogma. On the other hand, at least GM is promoting something positive from a Christian perspective.
Let us examine the organizations, since religion is involved, to see if there might be a deeper level of religious position involved.
I have it on good authority that GM including Chevy is controlled by the Masonic Lodge, anathema spiritually to the Church, its sworn enemy which it seeks to destroy.
If I'm wrong, then inform me.
The Lodge is also active among Protestant churches. So, what now ought the Catholic position on this sponsorship/boycott be? Why advocate or criticize either group? Both groups at bottom reject the Church doctrine and existance -- not to claim that individuals within these two groups hate us to death, but that those in charge are running, I'm informed, with the devil against the Church.
I wonder which group, the Protestants or the humanists, supply more converts to the Church? And, which of these Church-hostile groups snatch Catholics away from the sheepfold?
Actually John, many Protestant churches (at least the conservative ones) prohibit Lodge membership just as the Catholics do, because the Masons set themselves up as an alternative value structure/organization to Christianity.
Who's "running with the Devil against the Church?" I'm hoping this wasn't a serious post, because these kind of conspiracy theories just won't fly.
Well, junking my cynicism, irony and sarcasm isn't easy. Now I find it's exposed my bent to calumny. I knew it when I wrote it, but failed to act on it.
Conspiracy theories??? Maybe I've spent too much time perusing the Beaver County Militia.com site. It puts the Amish as the main culprits conspiring to rule the world.
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