Film at 11: Christian Children's Fund turns away huge donation.

[athelind]

GenCon 2008 raised over $17,000 for the Christian Children's Fund -- you know, "pennies a day can feed these photogenic waifs".

That was Gary Gygax's favorite charity, and the CCF was chosen as a memorial to him.

They turned it down, because the money came in part from the sales of Dungeons & Dragons.

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Comments

[mocha-mephooki.livejournal.com]

That... is just plain SICK!

Sheesh!

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

Let them auto fornicate....

[odiedragon.livejournal.com]

I can't even begin to formulate my feelings about this.

I'm sure the alternate charity they chose does a lot of good, but shouldn't they have found a similar organization. These "Christian" fuckholes can't be the only ones working to feed starving people in the third world.

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

There are Islamic charities.....

[rikoshi.livejournal.com]

Wow. I didn't think I'd run into any heinous politics on Election Eve that weren't election-related.

How silly of me to have been wrong.

[hitchkitty.livejournal.com]

And the sad thing is, there will be people who applaud them for taking a stand.

[missmonstermel.livejournal.com]

Oh, good job guys! Making yourselves look good. :C How sad....

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Why is anyone surprised?

To have "Christian" in your name means to be an unapologetic purveyor of irrational bigotry. It's actually required in the brand document.

[pseudomanitou.livejournal.com]

Considering the types of television programming they will run their commercials during, I don't understand their decision...

Next time someone in CCF thinks D&D leads kids to satanism or something, they might want to back off running their commercials during the television version of Evil Dead 2 :P

[leonard-arlotte.livejournal.com]

Maybe GenCon could donate the money to Make A Wish foundation instead? Assuming they'll take money from GenCon still...

[araquan.livejournal.com]

Eh, wankers. I'm not surprised really.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

Wow. You totally win this thread.

[tombfyre.livejournal.com]

Ahh, gotta love the fundie wankers of the world. I'll be happy when they're all gone and forgotten about. :)

[kyhwana.livejournal.com]

Fail christians. No wonder people think they're assholes..

[cpxbrex.livejournal.com]

I know you don't understand my militant atheist, but . . . well, this is a reminder for me why I feel as I do towards religion. :/

[roninotter.livejournal.com]

Another reason why I don't donate to religiously-affiliated charities.

That makes me very sad. :(