Message To Fundies Decrying The Supreme Court Decision As An Infringement On Their Religious Freedom

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51. I saw a documentary on John Lennon a couple of years ago

He talked about liberals using the system -- capitalism -- to "sell" their ideas to the people the way business sells products to those same people. I did a search and found more on that subject:

John and Yoko’s first bed-in for peace: Amsterdam

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... the reporters found Lennon and Ono sitting in their bed, talking about peace and surrounded by signs stating 'Hair Peace' and 'Bed Peace'.

The couple's interviews were reported in newspapers, radio, television, and newsreels worldwide. They received frequent hostility, bemusement and mirth from the rest of the world, but their peace message was nonetheless widely distributed.

We talked to the press. We met people from the Communist countries, people from the West - every country in the world. We gave the press eight hours of every day, every waking hour, to ask every question they wanted to about our position. People said, 'Well, what does this do for peace?' We thought, The other side has war on every day, not only on the news but on the old John Wayne movies and every damn movie you see: war, war, war, war, kill, kill, kill, kill.' We said, 'Let's get some peace, peace, peace, peace on the headlines, just for a change!' So we thought it highly amusing that a lot of the world's headlines on March 25th 1969 were 'honeymoon couple in bed'. Whoopee! Isn't that great news?'

We thought instead of just being 'John and Yoko Get Married', like 'Richard and Liz Get Married', (it should be) 'John and Yoko get married and have a bed-in for peace'. So we would sell our product, which we call 'peace'. And to sell a product you need a gimmick, and the gimmick we thought was 'bed'. And we thought 'bed' because bed was the easiest way of doing it, because we're lazy. It took us a long train of thought of how to get the maximum publicity for what we sincerely believed in, which was peace - and we were part of the peace movement.

http://www.beatlesbible.com/1969/03/25/john-and-yokos-first-bed-in-for-peace/

(As I said in another reply, the far right has become adept over the years at disseminating lies with catchy slogans. We need to get into the "business" of spreading truths with catchy slogans of our own.)