The Cinemark CEO gave approx $10K to support the passage of Prop8. Cinemark owns nearly all the theaters in Albuquerque. I don't care. Until the company recognizes what they have done and corrects it, I will not patronize their theaters. Here is the statement I sent them on their form for contact.


Based on the news that the CEO of Cinemark has donated approximately $10,000 to support the passage of the discriminatory Proposition 8 in California, I have come to the conclusion that my family and I will no longer attend Cinemark-owned theaters in my community, Albuquerque NM. In addition, I am calling for friends and family around the country to identify Cinemark-owned theaters in their area for boycott, if they are as outraged as I am by this attempt to enforce some Americans' personal religious convictions on all people of the State of California. I presume the ultimate goal of this bigotry is to prevent same sex couples in all states affording themselves of the right to marriage that has been found constitutional by the Supreme Court of the US, most notably in Loving v Virginia (1967) and Turner v Safley (1987). This action by your CEO is unacceptable to me and, as such, I will no longer support your company.