Stop The Bigots, Stop The Hatred

There is a reality show on television call American Muslims, that a conservative group said the show was a “danger to American liberties and traditional values." It is not the show that is a “danger to American liberties and traditional values", but the group Florida Family Association who are attacking religious freedom. They have convinced Lowes Home Improvement to withdraw their ads for the show.

Fla. group in Lowe's flap has history of protests
Boston Globe
By Mitch Stacy
Associated Press
December 13, 2011

TAMPA, Fla.—The conservative group that got Lowe's to pull its ads from a reality TV show about American Muslims has been fighting for more than two decades against gay rights, strip clubs and most anything else that offends evangelical Christians.

The leader of the Florida Family Association is David Caton, a 55-year-old family values crusader who left an accounting career to found the group in 1987. He said the association has 35,000 members who were urged to email Lowe's to pressure the home improvement giant into dropping commercials during the TLC cable network show "All-American Muslim."

Lowes has drawn criticism for its decision from leaders in the Muslim community, celebrities and others suggesting a boycott of the store. Despite the growing backlash, the Mooresville, N.C.-based company said Monday it was planning to stick by its decision after the show became a "lightning rod for people to voice complaints from a variety of perspectives -- political, social and otherwise."

Lowes has the right to advertise wherever they want, but we have the right to speak-up against them, to picket and boycott their stores.