Talk:Donald Wildmon

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His organization supposedly had a boycott of Ford over Ford Motor Corporations ads in gay and gay-related magazines as well as Ford's willingness to extend equal benefits to same-sex couples once employed.

His son Mark was expelled from his senior year of high school for smoking pot. Can be verified. Tupelo High School, Tupelo, MS 1989.

[edit] Alleged Outing by Homosexual Prostitute

I removed unsourced, potentially libelous information that Wildmon was outed by a homosexual prostitute per Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons. There was no citation for it, and I could find no information about in on the internet.Everyguy (talk) 05:39, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Not very neutral

Personally, I can't stand this guy, so I can sympathize with the writer(s) of this article. But that's not what Wikipedia is supposed to be about. The current article seems fairly biased against him. I'm frankly surprised that the article hasn't had a more contentious history, but perhaps Wildmon's followers are not adept at editing Wikipedia.

In any case, Wildmon is fairly important among the Christian right, and runs a rather large activist mailing list, and there's a lot of indication his boycotts and petitions on companies like Ford and ABC, etc. have some effect. His themes have been consistent, too -- he's something of a modern Bowlder or Comstock -- very concerned with "potty mouth" media and any mainstream commercial expressions that even slightly push the envelope of sexual expression. His other main obsession is homosexuality -- since he believes this is a choice not a biological predilection, he sees gay activists as activists pushing a willfully perverse "lifestyle." He runs several websites and newsletters. I mention all of this as unsourced background material. I'm hoping the article will be taken on by both supporters and detractors in the hope of getting a better rounded picture of the man. He is important, and (even though I dislike his agenda very much) "deserves" a fuller entry in Wikipedia. StrangeAttractor (talk) 03:18, 5 June 2008 (UTC)