Comments on: Pinky goes to Hillsong http://stilgherrian.com/religion/pinky_goes_to_hillsong/ All publication is a political act. All communication is propaganda. All art is pornography. All business is personal. All hail Eris. Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:07:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Quatrefoil http://stilgherrian.com/religion/pinky_goes_to_hillsong/#comment-8670 Quatrefoil Mon, 08 Oct 2007 00:01:22 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/religion/pinky_goes_to_hillsong/#comment-8670 I'd add fundamentalist atheists to my list of problems, but as for milk in first - there is a reason, but only if you're drinking from fine bone china. If you put the hot tea in first you're likely to crackle the glaze. I have the cup to prove it. On the subject of your clients, I think you have to take responsibility for your own decisions and allow your clients to take responsibility for theirs. OTOH, you're also free to use your work as a protest. But you don't in fact know that he/she uses the profits to support Hillsong - perhaps you could ask? Perhaps it's a rumour, or perhaps they are not a good supporter of their church? But I think that individuals have the right to make a profit from their businesses and to spend that money as they see fit even if it's not your choice. Perhaps the way to deal with it is to donate an amount of money equivalent to the amount you estimate would be 10% of the proportion of the profits you're responsible for to an organisation with opposing views, and let your client know that you're doing that. I’d add fundamentalist atheists to my list of problems, but as for milk in first - there is a reason, but only if you’re drinking from fine bone china. If you put the hot tea in first you’re likely to crackle the glaze. I have the cup to prove it.

On the subject of your clients, I think you have to take responsibility for your own decisions and allow your clients to take responsibility for theirs. OTOH, you’re also free to use your work as a protest. But you don’t in fact know that he/she uses the profits to support Hillsong - perhaps you could ask? Perhaps it’s a rumour, or perhaps they are not a good supporter of their church? But I think that individuals have the right to make a profit from their businesses and to spend that money as they see fit even if it’s not your choice. Perhaps the way to deal with it is to donate an amount of money equivalent to the amount you estimate would be 10% of the proportion of the profits you’re responsible for to an organisation with opposing views, and let your client know that you’re doing that.

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