Posted on 04/29/2016 6:30:34 PM PDT by Morgana
TUPELO, Miss. (ChurchMilitant.com) - A petition calling for a nationwide boycott of Target has broken 1 million signatures.
Organized by pro-family non-profit the American Family Association (AFA), the petition comes in response to an announcement last week from the retail giant in which the company stated it would allow "transgender team members and guests to use the restroom or fitting room facility that corresponds with their gender identity."
"Inclusivity is a core belief at Target," the post reads. "It's something we celebrate. We stand for equality and equity, and strive to make our guests and team members feel accepted, respected and welcomed in our stores and workplaces every day."
The short announcement concludes by asserting "[e]veryone deserves to feel like they belong."
The statement has been met with much backlash from various organizations, including the AFA, which maintains that policies like the one implemented by Target are "exactly how sexual predators get access to their victims."
"Clearly, Target's dangerous new policy poses a danger to wives and daughters," the AFA notes. "We think many customers will agree. And we think the average Target customer is willing to pledge to boycott Target stores until it makes protecting women and children a priority."
The petition was launched shortly after news had broken of Target's announcement and has since garnered a little over 1 million signatories who pledge to "shop elsewhere" until "Target makes the safety of women and children a priority."
The organization cites examples from across the country of what they claim Target's policy can lead to, including multiple cross-dressing men arrested in various states for filming inside of women's restrooms and locker rooms.
Despite the recent surge in pro-transgender initiatives sweeping the country's schools and stores, several studies indicate the percentage of Americans who identify as transgender to be well below 1 percent, with a 2011 paper by the Williams Institute estimating the number at around 700,000 adult Americans — or 0.3 percent — of the population. According to the 2010 census, around 22,000 had legally changed their sex, and only a little over 135,000 have legally changed their name to one of the opposite gender since the formation of the Social Security Administration in 1936.
The Census Bureau does not currently track gender identity and, despite pushes for the collection of data on transgender individuals to improve statistics, the agency asserts it has no plans to include such information in the 2020 census.
No, the real God will bring YOUR attitude back on YOU.
1. Go to target.
2. Fill up basket with expensive perishables.
3. Walk out leaving note in basket that you went looking for a private restroom.
4. Rinse.
5. Repeat.
What ever you think it says. Up to you.
Yup, do wrong to counter wrong... extremely holy move.
..And how would you like God to treat you that way?...
I understand your feeling about tolerance and understanding, but at the same time what about the rights of privacy a d decency of natural men and women?
IIRC, God has an awful judgment on homosexual and other deviant behavior at Sodom and Gomorrah. When the angels visited Lot’s home and the Crowd said, “Bring them out so we can know them,” they weren’t talking about a simple greeting for them, were they? There was no tolerance for deviant behavior.
It says nothing about Target’s bathrooms, that’s for blessed sure! But your treatment of it says volumes about your self righteousness!
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“Not because you ever cared about what GOD wanted.”
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How on earth would you know what I “ever cared about”?
Yikes !
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The point about punishing a possibly sinful situation (again, in Target’s case it is pre-crime, not even crime) is different from the point about never ever forgiving it.
God will extend such treatment back to all who dish it out.
Because of how you act.
Thank you . I thought I was standing in this fire alone. Praise God .
You mean praise the devil. For being your pretend God unto self righteousness.
Thank you . I thought I was standing in this lion’s den alone. Praise God . I do that a lot but it is nice to have others.
No you were right the first time, you were standing in the fire.
I am not talking about what I say— I am talking about what GOD SAYS!! What do you say about what God says?
I left off putting fragile/squash able items on the bottom. Crushed chips and squashed bread soaked with raw chicken juices will get their attention fast.
Any predatory male can dress up like a woman to gain entry to the women’s washrooms and attack whatever female, young or old, that is in there. They don’t have to be truly transgender, just pretend to be one in order to attack women of all ages in the women’s rooms. I would never want to use a bathroom in a Target store again, just on principle, which means I will not go in a Target store again. What fools they are.
“Any predatory male can dress up like a woman——”
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Exactly.
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Safety is one of our core values. Sorry Target. You chose danger.
In the olden days if something like that happened, a group of men would take the offender out behind the building and out would come a straight razor or castration knife.
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