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.
Looks like they will be going the way jc pennys, white front, Woolworths, Montgomery Wards, etc...
More Christians hating Barack just because of his few hundred visits to Man Country...
you would have thought they would have learned from JC Penny.
STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID.
WE really don’t want faggot perverts in our daughter’s and wive’s toilet area. In Fact, we will not tolerate it. Target will capitulate or their entire board will be replaced in 30 days. But I will never go back. - EVER!! The damage is done.
I hope Target goes bankrupt. I know I’m done with them. I’ll never go in one of their stores again, especially to use the toilet. The morons should have stayed out of this.
“WE really don’t want faggot perverts in our daughter’s and wive’s toilet area.”
Truth be told it’s not the women wanna bes that are the problem it’s the men pretending to be women wanna bes that are. Either way both still have a penis and both still should not be in there.
And how would you like God to treat you that way?
Nice strawman argument. Target has been pro-homosexual “rights” for years.
I don’t pretend to be all knowing about God’s will.
We can get a hint by what he did to Sodom and Gomorrah.
“It’s something we celebrate”
PARTY is OVER ! !
Also , I want to say this to the stockholders of Target. I have a high level of knowledge on this. If there is one rape inside a Target toilet area— JUST ONE!! ( and I expect dozens) Not only will Target be sued for BILLIONS but every officer and board member will stand before a jury.— Any doubters out there?
And why is this worse than gay marriage. Explain please. It should have been an anticlimax.
Who says it is worse than gay marriage? Certainly not me.
Well I guess when a peak of selfishness conjoined with self righteousness is reached, that could happen.
And so Target will get scapegoated for being soft on pre-crime, and still everybody and his uncle and aunt will be saying yes Master to the Fedzilla and giving benefits to Gay Marriage!
The reaction to it does.
“And why is this worse than gay marriage.”
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Because young girls are vulnerable.
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Because it might actually affect YOU.
Not because you ever cared about what GOD wanted.
Let me tell you about God — The God that exists . I want you to go read Leviticus 20:13. Read it slowly and over and over and then come back and tell us what God wants?
And that says exactly what about Target’s bathrooms?
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