COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Focus on the Family Chairman James Dobson has encouraged listeners to his radio program to boycott products of the Procter & Gamble company because of a “tacit endorsement of gay ‘marriage,’” but the Cincinnati manufacturer says conservative groups are mistaken about its stance.
“For Procter and Gamble to align itself with radical groups committed to redefining marriage in our country is an affront to its customers,” Dobson said in a statement released Sept. 16 by his Colorado Springs, Colo.-based ministry. “An overwhelming majority of Americans — the men and women who buy this company’s products — oppose same-sex ‘marriage.’” P&G’s donation of $10,000 to a campaign to repeal a city ordinance barring enactment of gay rights laws is not related to the marriage issue, said P&G spokesman Doug Shelton. “The two issues [nondiscrimination and same-sex ‘marriage’] are separate and distinct and our company has not taken a position on the definition of marriage,” said Shelton.
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