MARRIAGE AMENDMENT
Protesters' message to General Mills
Recently, I was one of the many protesters outside the General Mills corporate offices and spoke to the company's vice president of communications. I asked why a company like his would ever come out with a statement against the marriage amendment. His response was that the issue had been thought about for some time. My view is that when the media asked the company to state its position on this issue quite often, then monthly, then weekly, the company succumbed to the pressure and made this uninformed statement.
Psychologists have proven that a boy child will develop his identity from his mother and a girl from her father. This is so important for our children, our future society and for America.
On a related note: Because our society is now plagued with bullies in the schools, and the problem seems insurmountable, I picked up the book "The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander," by Barbara Coloroso. It seems to me that General Mills has become the bullied and the media is the bully.
So many people in this democracy believe in the strong foundation of a marriage between a man and a woman; it is incomprehensible that a large company that markets many of its products to children would choose this position.
A company should be interested in a good product and sales. It can make all the cereals and products it wants, but if there are no buyers, it will fail. General Mills, please choose mother, father, children in the future.
BERNADINE FOX, GOLDEN VALLEY
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BUDGETS
Pressure will ease when reality sinks in
"And no one knows when the budget pressure will ease," claims a front-page article ("Cities and counties cut jobs by thousands," July 1).