Church Hosts Fur Coat Giveaway…
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- Posted on: Mon, January 07, 2008
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A warm spell “is the biggest enemy for the fur business,” said Bill Doulas, general manager of Andriana Furs, which donated 150 coats worth an estimated $300,000. All the coats had been returned or traded in, rendering them unsalable in the store. The donation to eligible seniors through the church was a first for the Chicago-based furrier, Doulas said.
Nearly 110 tickets were distributed for the coat giveaway, leaving more than enough to go around. Chicago-area residents who could prove they were at least 60 qualified for the drawing designed to mark the close of the Christmas season, said U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.), who pastors the Englewood church.
Rush called the donated coats a well-deserved gift for seniors, dismissing the concerns of many animal-rights advocates.
“It could have been 90 degrees, and I’d still have been here,” said Sylvia Alston, 63, of Chicago.
On one of the warmest January days in decades, Vera Rogers headed to church Sunday in search of religion, solace and, well, mink. The foster mother from Chicago's South Side joined more than nine dozen people vying for one of the free fur coats, made of everything from beaver to sable, that were given away to seniors at the Beloved Community Christian Church in Englewood. At 64, Rogers qualified. Sitting in the Gothic-style church for the first time, Rogers rushed forward when her ticket, No. 127, was pulled from the pile of yellow stubs, giving her an early pick of the winter fashions. She first tried on a full-length fox coat priced at $2,390. Too tight, she said. The sleeves of a sheared beaver coat with a green hue were a tad too short. A Finnish raccoon coat valued at $2,400 suited her perfectly, she said as she posed before a mirror rolled into the church hall...
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Daniel D. Farmer on Mon, January 07, 2008
So then the question Christians must ask themselves is: does this faithfully embody the divine care for animals human beings are called to manifest as representatives of God in nature? Is wearing fur intrinsically evil? In a strong moral sense, probably not—especially if you don’t have any cotton. But when our clothing needs are overabundantly supllied for through nonviolent means, what are we to make of wearing dead animals as ‘fashion’?
It’s sick, really (and I mean that in the sense of ‘diseased’—a diseased way of relating to the animal kingdom, which we are called to rule over with love).
My two cents.
-Daniel (your friendly neighborhood vegetarian)-
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