Protesters bombard Make-a-Wish Foundation with e-mails
A Make-A-Wish Foundation chapter has become the target of a nationwide e-mail protest organized by a family values organization that claims the comic book convention where the chapter holds an annual fund-raiser is a “celebration of pornography, witchcraft, demonology and the occult.”
Make-A-Wish has received more than 16,800 e-mails in just over a week from people opposed to the fund-raiser at Comicon, a Pittsburgh-area comic book convention, said Judith Stone, president and chief executive director of Make-A-Wish Foundation of Western Pennsylvania & Southern West Virginia.
“We know that Comicon features pornographic magazines and that they bring in people who sell their body to profit themselves and that Make-A-Wish, this chapter, doesn’t have a problem with that,” said Randy Sharp, a spokesman for the American Family Association, based in Tupelo, Miss., which organized the protest.
The Make-A-Wish Foundation does a thorough review of all fund-raiser locations and has found nothing offensive at the festival, Stone said.
The foundation holds an all-ages casino night and an auction in a hotel adjacent to the convention to raise money for children with terminal or life-threatening conditions… The foundation raised $27,000 during the event last year, using the money to grant the wishes of 38 children, including a trip to Disney World, new bedroom furniture and repairs to a pool that had fallen into disrepair.
There are some days when I just hate people. You’re protesting a CHARITY AUCTION FOR TERMINALLY ILL CHILDREN.
