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Demand that Pepsi drop Bob Jones University athletics from their corporate sponsorship

Demand that Pepsi drop Bob Jones University athletics from their corporate sponsorship

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Started by Anonymous 13 years, 8 months ago

PepsiCo must drop the BJU Bruins as a corporate sponsor


Bob Jones University, the radical fundamentalist university in Greenville, South Carolina, began an intercollegiate sports team in 2012 known as the BJU Bruins. The BJU Bruins have several major corporate sponsors -- including PepsiCo. 


This petition demands that PepsiCo immediately drop the BJU Bruins as corporate sponsors on the grounds that Bob Jones University is antithetical to the culture of PepsiCo, that BJU is not where the company wants its sponsorship money to go, and that PepsiCo does not want the publicity of sponsoring BJU. 


 PepsiCo should drop BJU as a corporate sponsor for the following reasons: 

1) BJU's past racist policies 

2) BJU's degradation of women 

3) BJU's stance of blaming victims of abuse and rewarding their abusers 

4) BJU's history on LGBT rights 

5) BJU's views on other religious organizations -- especially Catholicism 

6) BJU's treatment of students and their disregard for civil rights

Updates

January 16, 2013

The volume of support has reached a level where we have shifted from gathering signatures to preparing formal outreach for the PepsiCo corporate communications office. I am currently finalizing a letter detailing the specific evidence of how this sponsorship conflicts with their stated corporate values.

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Sarah Spencer
13 years ago Featured

Ridiculous that pepsi would even associate with them given that history. time to grow up and put money somewhere actually decent.

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Jessica Garcia
13 years ago Featured

Done. tired of these companies funding bigotry while pretending to be inclusive in their commercials. hypocrites.

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Mark Jackson
13 years ago Featured

BJU is stuck in the dark ages. Pepsi should be ashamed of supporting this junk.