text: what's up with these boycotting christians? can you believe i was approached by a christian group and asked to boycott a company because they provide health benefits for partners of gay employees?   what's up with that? if you disagree with homosexuality then by all means do  not go to a gay event or fund a gay organisation or read gay literature etc. but why would any christiain want to deliberately cause hardship for someone else's family? how does a gay employee being able to get health insurance for his loved one threaten you or encroach on your faith or your family? aren't some needs basic to all?  are you going to boycott companies that offer health insurance to non-christians who worship idols? after all, idolatry is against the bible not so? what about companies that allow obese people to work there? gluttony is against the bible not so? when does it end? when companies only hire people from your christian sect who apply the bible as you do?  when does it stop being about morality and start getting meanspirited? i think you're right. most christian boycotters are very selective in who they boycott. homosexuality is one "hot spot."  to be honest, if they boycott every company that had a disagreement with their theology, they couldn't buy anything at all. they should be living somewhere in hovels, without power, clothes, and food.  in any case, our job is to be salt in the world, not constantly protest what the world is doing.  if they are so worried about homosexuality, they would do much better being friends with homosexuals, finding out their needs, and serving them as real people whom they cared about, instead of impersonally fighting to simply take things away from them that they really do need.