Gay, Republican presidential candidate calls for Amway, Magic boycott

Gay, Republican presidential candidate calls for Amway, Magic boycott

Rights Equal Rights, a California-based marriage equality group, is calling for a boycott of Amway and all its subsidiaries, including the Orlando Magic and the RDV Sportsplex, which is located in Maitland. Republican Fred Karger, who is an openly gay presidential candidate, is president of Rights Equal Rights.

The groups reasoning for the boycott is Amway's $500,000 donationâ┚¬â€given via the Douglas and Maria DeVos  Foundationâ┚¬â€to the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), a notorious group working against marriage equality. Doug DeVos is the president of Amway.

Rights Equal Rights set up BoycottAmway.com to explain the boycott, collect donations for the cause and give visitors ways to communicate with both DeVos’ company and other supporters of the boycott.

In the meantime, NOM has been fighting in court to keep its donation records anonymous. As of press time, the state of Minnesota requires NOM to disclose corporate donations and NOM is still fighting charges of campaign finance violations in Maine.

NOM's activities have run the anti-gay gamut, from supporting so-called â┚¬Å”ex-gayâ┚¬Â therapy to fighting to uphold Prop 8, the California law banning marriage equality.

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