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ToonArmyIsComing
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| Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 2:32 pm Post subject: Wal-Mart and the social conservatives go head to head!!! |
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It's comforting to see there is some change in the business world with regards to LGBT people. It also seems social conservatives won't stop at anything to marginalize people!
Quote: Conservatives Mobilize Against Wal-Mart
By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Senior Editor
November 09, 2006
(CNSNews.com) - Wal-Mart, long pummeled by the political left, is taking additional flak from the right.
A conservative activist group is trying to recruit one million families who will refuse to shop at Wal-Mart or Sam's Club on the Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving, traditionally two of the busiest shopping days of the year.
The American Family Association is furious with Wal-Mart for reaching out to homosexual advocacy groups that support same-sex marriage.
The criticism began when Wal-Mart announced it would join the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. And now Wal-Mart has made a deal with the Washington DC Center for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender People, agreeing to donate 5 percent of the sales made through the group's website to the Center.
"Every purchase made online for books, music, videos, clothing and accessories, children's clothing and toys, and electronics at the site will automatically send 5% of the sales to the CCBLBT People," the AFA said in a message to its supporters.
"The agreement is an indication that Wal-Mart is totally committed to supporting the homosexual movement," the AFA said.
The conservative advocacy group complains that Wal-Mart also gave a "generous cash donation" to the Northwest Arkansas Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Community Center, helping to provide a place where homosexuals can come together to "socialize."
The AFA says Wal-Mart should have remained neutral in the cultural battle over homosexual marriage.
It says Wal-Mart made an "ideological" decision, not a business decision.
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/viewstory.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200611/CUL20061109a.html |
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John Galt
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| Most large corporations have benefits for "domestic partners". Straight people like it too, since people living in sin outnumber married couples these days and they still want/need benefits. |
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Babylon_Horuv
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| conservatives taking on wal-mart is funny. I hope they keep going after wal-mart and leave the poor abortion doctors alone. |
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toddytodd
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| Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 9:46 am Post subject: Re: Wal-Mart and the social conservatives go head to head!!! |
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ToonArmyIsComing wrote: It's comforting to see there is some change in the business world with regards to LGBT people. It also seems social conservatives won't stop at anything to marginalize people!
Quote: Conservatives Mobilize Against Wal-Mart
By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Senior Editor
November 09, 2006
(CNSNews.com) - Wal-Mart, long pummeled by the political left, is taking additional flak from the right.
A conservative activist group is trying to recruit one million families who will refuse to shop at Wal-Mart or Sam's Club on the Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving, traditionally two of the busiest shopping days of the year.
The American Family Association is furious with Wal-Mart for reaching out to homosexual advocacy groups that support same-sex marriage.
The criticism began when Wal-Mart announced it would join the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. And now Wal-Mart has made a deal with the Washington DC Center for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender People, agreeing to donate 5 percent of the sales made through the group's website to the Center.
"Every purchase made online for books, music, videos, clothing and accessories, children's clothing and toys, and electronics at the site will automatically send 5% of the sales to the CCBLBT People," the AFA said in a message to its supporters.
"The agreement is an indication that Wal-Mart is totally committed to supporting the homosexual movement," the AFA said.
The conservative advocacy group complains that Wal-Mart also gave a "generous cash donation" to the Northwest Arkansas Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Community Center, helping to provide a place where homosexuals can come together to "socialize."
The AFA says Wal-Mart should have remained neutral in the cultural battle over homosexual marriage.
It says Wal-Mart made an "ideological" decision, not a business decision.
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/viewstory.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200611/CUL20061109a.html
Now I am torn. I hate Walmart for various reasons, now I see this...
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