Right Wing Groups: Help Us Boycott PayPal By Donating To Us Via PayPal!

The Family Research Council hates PayPal for hating
North Carolina's anti-LGBT law, but at least for now
you can donate to the FRC via PayPal. Hmmm.  

A fun little side issue in the Great North Carolina PayPal move controversy is the people who want us to boycott PayPal want us to use PayPal to donate to their organizations.

As noted previously, PayPal announced earlier this week they wouldn't be locating a processing center in North Carolina after all.

PayPal executives were understandably annoyed with North Carolina's legislature and governor adopting a weird law that would, among other things, make transgendered people use bathrooms that correspond to their birth certificate, and not to their current gender.

There's also some other anti-LGBG goodies in that law.

Anyway, the law goes against PayPal's corporate philosphy about inclusiveness, so they'll look elsewhere to locate their new office.

(Note: Already, other states, including here in Vermont are yelling for PayPal: Over here! Over here! Come here! We'll see how that goes.)

Predictably, various and sundry evangelical and right wing activist groups are annoyed with PayPal for being annoyed with North Carolina's law.

These groups want us to boycott PayPal, and donate to their organizations to fight the heathen PayPal.

According to JoeMyGod, at least two of these groups, the Family Research Council, and Franklin Graham's outfit, tell us the best way to donate to fight PayPal is through, um, PayPal.

Ooookay then!

Tony Perkins of Family Research Council says they will remove the PayPal option soon. Let's see if they do.

Franklin Graham complains that PayPal operates in countries that are very abusive and hostile to gays and that's true. But they don't have their corporate offices in these countries.

Nevertheless, Graham says PayPal is hypocritical for backing out of North Carolina when it does business in oppressive countries

But Grahams's web site invites you to donate to him via PayPal. 

No that's not hypocritical, uh-uh.

Franklin Graham Hates, But We All Love Instant Karma

Franklin Graham just can't seem to
find a bank that suits his tastes.  

When I'm bored, I sometimes idly go through YouTube videos, and every so often I'm drawn to instant karma video compilations.

Those are the ones where somebody does something wrong or stupid, and pays the price almost immediately.

The video at the bottom of this post isn't a compilation, but it is a delicious example of instant karma.

Franklin Graham, the evangelical Christianist son of Billy Graham was really, really upset with Wells Fargo Bank.

No, he wasn't mad at any financial shenanigans Wells Fargo may or may not have done. He didn't like a certain television ad from the bank.

The ad showed a pleasant same sex couple learning sign language so they could adopt a cute deaf girl, and Wells Fargo would be there to help the newly formed family through the financial leap they would have to make to become whole.

Awww. So sweet!

But Franklin Graham would have none of it! Wells Fargo is shoving the horrible gay agenda down our throats! An OUTRAGE!!!!! Family Values!!!!!!

So in a fit of anger at Wells Fargo, he withdrew his assets from Wells Fargo and put them in another bank that had better family values, supposedly.

Rachel Maddow tells the whole story much better than I, so let's allow her explain to us how things went for Franklin Graham and his banking experiences: