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ZippyDogs to the Rescue with Healthy Pride Products

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Thursday October 7, 4:55 pm ET

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 7, 2004--ZippyDogs.com, a promotional products company, is launching a new web site, www.HealthyPride.com, with a focus on health issue messaged products for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, thus Healthy Pride. The goal of Healthy Pride is to provide resources for organizations that have chosen to disseminate health messages that are LGBT specific.
The products are created by LGBT individuals. Items featured are not your standard health education brochures, but instead are colorful and cutting edge, while remaining informative, using hip, trendy language with which LGBT individuals identify. This may be the only web site in the world that offers LGBT specific health education materials.

Sexually transmitted disease, date rape drugs, amphetamines, and tobacco have a higher level of incidence and consequence in the LGBT community. LGBT individuals can have an aversion to routine health checkups. HealthyPride.com is combining pride in the community and cutting edge messaging to help organizations, entrusted with health education, serve the LGBT community better.

About HealthyPride.com

Elise Lindborg and Kelli Henderson are life partners and the founders of ZippyDogs.com. Elise and Kelli have created HealthyPride.com out of their care for the community. This web site is an evolution of their successful tobacco prevention campaign the "Gay American Smoke Out." HealthyPride.com addresses an expanded range of LGBT health issues. Elise spent over 10 years in tobacco prevention and worked as a Public Health professional. Kelli has a passion for serving the LGBT community in a healthy and positive way.

About ZippyDogs.com

ZippyDogs.com is a Seattle based leader in providing innovative promotional products and memorable marketing opportunities for businesses throughout the U.S. Through its online shopping experience and personalized service via phone placed orders, ZippyDogs.com provides creative design services for its wide range of logo embossed items that generate great lasting impressions for every type of business. ZippyDogs.com was founded in 2000 by Elise Lindborg and Kelli Henderson. ZippyDogs.com has more than 100 corporate clients and has a catalogue of more than fifty thousand different promotional products that range from embroidered sportswear to tchotchkes of every flavor.

P&G Sends False Message, Says Those Who Oppose Homosexual Marriage Are Wrong

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By Donald E. Wildmon
American Family Association
October 5, 2004

(AgapePress) - Procter & Gamble is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, a city in the midst of a cultural battle over homosexual rights. In 1993, by an overwhelming 62 percent to 38 percent margin, the citizens of Cincinnati passed Article 12, which prohibited the granting of special rights for homosexuals.

Eleven years later, homosexual activists want those special rights back. P&G is aggressively helping them.

We say this for three reasons. First, P&G has a history of consistently supporting the homosexual agenda. It is disturbing to see P&G promoting a lifestyle that is unnatural and unhealthy.

Second, P&G is working diligently to repeal Article 12, including giving $10,000 to the campaign to overturn the law and giving one of their top officials a leave of absence to head the campaign.

Third, since their pro-homosexual agenda became public knowledge, it has become clear that P&G the company supports the full breadth of the homosexual agenda.

For example, P&G said in a company statement: "Article 12 is

P&G Response to Boycott Participants Inadequate

http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/A0034006.cfm

October 4, 2004

by Stuart Shepard, correspondent

People complaining to Procter & Gamble about its support of the gay agenda are getting a confusing letter in response.

Many people who e-mailed their thoughts to Procter & Gamble concerning the company's gay-affirming efforts to repeal a Cincinnati pro-family ordinance—Article 12 —are getting a well-crafted and somewhat confusing response.

The Procter & Gamble e-mail says the company "will not take a position on the legal definition of marriage", and that the Cincinnati ordinance the company opposes has "nothing to do with the marriage debate."

But Ed Vitagliano, a spokesman for the American Family Association, said the company's position can only lead down one path.

"I think Procter & Gamble is spinning this to their own advantage," Vitagliano said, "and they're basically trying to confuse people who are not happy with their take on Article 12. It would eventually, we would think, force them to come out in support of same-sex marriage, because at least in one way of thinking, traditional marriage is discriminatory against other forms of marriage."

Billboard company rejects ad that proclaims gays can change

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By Jesse J. Smith , Freeman staff 09/15/2004

NEW PALTZ - Efforts by a conservative Christian group to proclaim on a local billboard that homosexuality is a curable condition suffered a setback recently when a billboard company refused to rent space to the group.

The Truthful Witness Campaign, a project of the New York Christian Coalition, had planned to rent a billboard on state Route 299 in New Paltz and post an advertisement provided by the Connecticut-based Stephen Bennett Ministries. The billboard was to feature a black-and-white photograph of Bennett with his wife and two children alongside the statement "Wonderful husband. Loving father. Former homosexual. Jesus Christ changes lives."

Bennett says he abandoned his homosexuality after a religious conversion.

The Truthful Witness Campaign, formed in response to same sex-weddings performed this year in New Paltz, was in the process of raising the $4,000 needed to rent the billboard from Highway Displays Inc. when, according to campaign coordinator Diane Garrison, officials from Highway Displays told her they would not allow the ad because of its content.

On Tuesday, the billboard firm's general manager, Jeff Hartman, confirmed that he and company owner Sandra Schwartz had rejected the ad after receiving a single complaint call following media coverage of planned advertisement.

VW Targets Gays for First Time

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September 13, 2004
By Lisa van der Pool

BOSTON Volkswagen is making its first attempt to reach the homosexual community, long a key client base for the brand, with new print ads from lead agency Arnold.

Photographer John Arsenault shot the Havas shop's ads in the gay-friendly locations of Provincetown, Mass., Palm Springs, Calif., and Los Angeles. One depicts a Provincetown beach at sunset. Copy in part reads, "This summer, we set out to capture those moments in life when everything gels. When you can be exactly who you are. And express it any way you want." The work retains VW's "Drivers wanted" tagline.

Commentary: The dollars and cents of gay marriage

Christian Science Monitor - http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0830/p17s01-cogn.html?s=hns -
By David R. Francis - [NOTE: I'll leave it to finer minds than mine to dismantle this naive, "whistling past the graveyard" piece from the CSM. Ultimately, though, the economic issue is a red herring. The best the CSM can come up with is that the issue has virtually no impact on the economy. Even if SSM and domestic partnerships proved to be of great financial value to employers (I'm being incredibly generous here), the other side effects trump money evey time. - GW] - Gay marriage challenges society. It roils contemporary politics and raises moral objections for some. But on economists' screens, it barely registers.

Jaguar, Land Rover Partner With Homosexual Activist Group

CNSNews - http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewCulture.asp?Page=\Culture\archive\200408\CUL20040824c.html -
[NOTE: Nuts. And just as I was getting to ready to trade in my XKE for an LR Discovery.-GW] - Two automakers are partnering with a homosexual activist group by developing a special marketing campaign geared towards homosexuals.

Porn filters expose flaws

PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW - http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/regional/s_243018.html -
PITTSBURGH, PA - When John Mihelcik clicked on GasBuddy.com, a Web site that tracks retail gasoline prices across the country, a message popped up on the Mt. Lebanon Public Library computer: "Access Denied -- the site you have chosen has been categorized as a sex site."

Major Canadian Bank Goes Officially Pro-Gay 'Marriage'

LIFE SITE - http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/aug/04081607.html -
TORONTO - Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce this year joined forces with homosexual activists, and hosted its first "Gay Pride" reception to coincide with Toronto's "Gay Pride" parade. CIBC employees carried a company-endorsed banner in the parade.

Google bans Christian ad Anti-homosexual remarks considered 'hate' content

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Posted: August 17, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Ron Strom
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

Google has banned a Christian organization's advertisements promoting its stance against homosexuality, saying the group promotes "hate."

Stand to Reason, a nonprofit apologetics organization, says its "AdWord" advertisement on Google recently was pulled down. Specific AdWord ads are listed in the right-hand margin of search results on the popular site when key words an advertiser submits match with those put in by a Net user. A company promoting hats, for example, could have their site displayed when a user searches for information about hats.

Melinda Penner, director of operations for Stand to Reason, says the organization placed four ads on Google. Three of the ads remain on the system, but one leading Net surfers to a Q&A about same-sex marriage was taken down after running for two or three weeks.

"Google's objections had to do with other articles on our website pertaining to homosexuality," Penner told WND. "They claimed that their specialist had deemed us a hate site and that their policies didn't allow people to have ads that discriminated against certain groups, which include sexual orientation."