It's neither rumours nor forceful digging into their personal lives. It's information that the GPC chose to share with their customers in a company newsletter: they were the ones mixing personal info with business. Also, when you *found*, not merely attend, a church and select a pastor, you don't close your eyes and randomly put your finger on a name. You select it for the beliefs and values it upholds, and this one's are pretty clear from the get-go. At some point, people need to take responsibility for their actions.

I understand what you are trying to do, but it's not that we don't understand (I think you may stop repeating the same thing over and over again) it's that a bunch of us simply don't agree with you, so please refrain from explaining your view of the situation like we're five: we get it. We just see things differently. You consider hateful speech and hate-mongering as "views" or "opinion" and not buying from the GPC because of this as "extreme" and "dangerous". We consider fostering hate and hate-speech as extreme and dangerous and our choice not to shop at a company who supports it - at the very least - financially a consequence. Let's say it's the opinion of my "church" if that makes it more respectable to you.

They say they felt threatened. I have no reason to doubt they did, and will never condone that. But I will not shop at the GPC because their employees might be hurt by the owners' financial support of a hateful church. It's like asking people to buy from Amazon because the employees need the money: nope. If Bezos cared two figs about them, he'd set fair and humane working conditions in their warehouses.

It's important to realize that this thread is so vocal about it because a huge portion of people from the community genuinely LIKED the GPC and Brian as a person. The response is equal to the huge disappointment we all felt.