Wal-Mart opposes Arkansas 'conscience protection' measure critics cast as anti-LGBT

FOX ^ | 02/24/2015 | AP

[celmak]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Wal-Mart says it opposes a "conscience protection" bill in the retail giant's home state of Arkansas that critics say would sanction discrimination against gays and lesbians.

[celmak]

Very disappointing.

[C19fan]

Which Fortune 500 company is not on board with the LGBT agenda? Since Walmart is so huge in AR will that kill the bill?

[VanDeKoik]

I remember the days when FR was Wal-Mart’s biggest fan club.

Now you couldn’t pay us to shop there. Not that I ever did.

[MarkRegal05]

Sam has to be turning in his grave at what his company is endorsing. Shameful.

[ican'tbelieveit]

I still shop there for very basic items - can’t beat the price: dog food, laundry soap, milk, bread.

Refuse to buy meat or produce there.

But we don’t shop there like we used to. Now I can find more options, variety, price competition online.

[nathanbedford]

I do not support laws which compel association with other genders, sexual persuasions, races, religions, or political affiliations. Nor do I support laws which compel people to do business with other people nor do I support hate crime legislation.

I am fully aware that to state publicly that one opposes laws against segregation is to invite charges of racism so I do not take this position lightly. I simply believe that people have the right to be wrong, to be bigoted, and to be clannish. I take this position because I do not believe the right of association or the reciprocal right to be free of compulsory association turns on the nature of the discrimination. In other words I do not say that is okay to have laws against discriminations based on race but not okay to have laws against discriminations based on sexual predilections. I simply believe that individual liberty trumps society's interest in promoting brotherhood, diversity, or sodomy as virtuous as these pursuits might or might not be.

If this be benighted bigotry, make the most of it.

It is perhaps something other than bigotry to oppose a law prohibiting that which one himself might not do as a matter of choice.

[Steve_Seattle]

Wal-Mart opposes the bill because they don’t want any more bad press than they already get from the Left. They are unwilling to join the fight for small business owners with religious objections to gay marriage. It’s a self-serving, cowardly, and disappointing policy.

[MrB]

Remember the whole point of the LGBT agenda IS to violate the conscience rights of Christians, to force them to apostatize.

[Steve_Seattle]

Your statement is clear, and it is - in my view - the only attitude that can be maintained consistently, across the board. We all know how liberals carve out all sorts of exceptions to anti-discrimination laws so that they can continue to practice THEIR preferred forms of discrimination, or continue their preferred forms of race-based social engineering.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Remember the whole point of the LGBT agenda IS to violate the conscience rights of Christians, to force them to apostatize."

Someone said the other day that - for progressive non-gays - support of the LGBT agenda is more a question of hating Christians than loving gays. They really do want to PUNISH people for opposing the LGBT agenda.

[MrB]

To put it another way,
the reason that the left supports LGBT’s against Christians
is not for any love of LGBT folks.

They’re just a convenient weapon to criminalize Christianity.

[nascarnation]

Yes and consider the list of contributors to Podesta’s Center for American Progress.

They’re all trying to pay “protection” money to the left.

[celmak]

They should have just stayed out of it. My family won’t be shopping there anymore.

[tjd1454]

Remember the whole point of the LGBT agenda IS to violate the conscience rights of Christians, to force them to apostatize.

Exactly - The Gay Agenda is a frontal attack against Christianity that is succeeding beyond our wildest fears.

The Mark of the Beast.