The American Family Association (AFA) has written a letter to the president of the New York State Teachers' Retirement System (NYSTRS) asking the group to dump its more than one million shares of Movie Gallery stock.
According to an Agape Press report, AFA Special Projects Director Randy Sharp insists that owning the video entertainment company's stock puts the teachers' retirement system in the hardcore porn business as Movie Gallery is the nation's largest retailer of adult videos.
The NYSTRS owns "billions of dollars worth of stock," Sharp claims, "and certainly supporting pornography is not one of the avenues that this organization should go down. There are a lot of great teachers in New York. I'm sure that they would be shocked to know that their retirement is being funded by material that damages families."
The American Family Association, a pro-family organization, launched a boycott of Movie Gallery in 2000.
