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Out of the Circle. (Making a Difference).(Brief Article)
Phillips Petroleum is the parent company of the Circle K chain of convenience stores. For more than a decade, Phillips officials have come under fire from pro-family activists for allowing the Circle K outlets to carry sleazy magazines of the Playboy and Penthouse genre.
More than a decade ago, for instance, the Tampa-based Florida Family Association (FFA), led by executive director David Caton, began urging Circle K to stop selling the pornographic publications. The FFA describes its mission as educating "Consumers and Corporate America regarding the harmful effects of pornographic media" and the "steps they can take to improve the moral environment."
A few months ago, Caton informed Phillips that the FFA was planning to escalate efforts to educate consumers about the company's role in peddling obscene material. "We basically told Phillips Petroleum that we were going to ...
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