deathquaker ([info]deathquaker) wrote,
@ 2008-10-31 08:06:00
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CCF Rejects Dirty Gamer Money
Apparently, in honor of Gary Gygax, Gen Con raised $17,000 to donate to his favorite charity, the Christian Children's Fund. They rejected the donation because of course gamers are Satanists. Was it sent accidentally to the Crazy (Jack T.) Chick Fund instead?

To paraphrase Sir Walter Scott, "You show me a gamer who is not a Christian, then I will show you a Christian who is not a Christian."*

Rich "The Giant" Burlew has the story here: http://www.giantitp.com/index.html#MZvsP18xmNXpVDwvCRQ

For those of you not clicking on the link, GenCon decided to send the funds to Fisher House, which supports military families. Burlew suggests any other gamers wishing to honor Gary with a donation, or just support a good cause, donate to PlanUSA, who also assists the poor and offers child sponsorship, much like CCF, but without the prejudice and corruption.

My church used to sponsor a child through CCF. I will certainly make sure my extended religious community makes sure to avoid supporting this organization in the future.

Wamba in Ivanhoe: "Show me a Jew who is not a Christian, and I will show you a Christian who is not a Christian."


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[info]deathquaker
2008-11-04 03:23 pm UTC (link)
Let me know what you receive.

To you and others:

The responses others have received from CCF vary, but the general story seems to be that GenCon asked CCF to be its official charity (which meant CCF's name would be published on the program somewhere), CCF found out the monies raised would in part come from sales of D&D products, and they declined becoming the official charity because of wanting to be cautious about which organizations/lifestyles they wanted to "endorse." They claim it violated their endorsement policy, but I haven't seen a description of that policy.

It's important to note the clarification that CCF didn't actually refuse donations, they just didn't want to be listed publically as the organization GenCon was sponsoring for their charity fundraising. So it's important to note that someone didn't show up with $17,000 and they turned them away.

On the other hand, WHY they refused still seems to boil down to not wanting to be publicly associated with gamers.

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