Let Target's death be a particularly unpleasant and humiliating one
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.
Those who do not learn from history...
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Didn't you people learn ANYTHING from the smoke of SODOM?
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In a forum, esp. the religion one here, one is often pinged to a reply because they were also involved in the exchange with the poster being replied to. It does not infer that all those who are included are on one side or the other, but may be interested and respond further.
I do not: The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. (Psalms 9:17)
But meanwhile even if there is little pronounced effect of the boycott you certainly cannot (not that you necessarily are) criticize those who choose to boycott Target. History certainly would be critical of those who refused to boycott Nazi Germany based on the rationale that it would have little to no impact. Meanwhile the Left certainly believes in the efficacy of boycotts.
[[However the Bible does say clearly that men should not dress as Women and vice versa. They don’t mention Target stores as that is ridiculous. The Bible does not mention Ted Bundy but it does say that you should not murder.]]
(Deuteronomy 22:5) The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
[[I hope someone gets it before me to save me the trouble as my Strongs Concordance is under several things including a telephone]]
E-sword is a free bible program you can download and install in your computer .
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Which you cannot prove, and evangelicals at least have traditionally been the most opposed of homosexual marriage (only 3% of American evangelical pastors somewhat agree that there is nothing wrong with homosexual marriage, and 87% opposed it, as did 99% of Protestant pastors who hold to very conservative theology, and 76-79% of evangelical overall. Sources.)
Regardless, simply because they are inconsistent does not mean they should be criticized for this boycott action. A person who typically fails to oppose iniquity is not to be criticized when they actually do so. What are you doing to make known your opposition to Target accommodating the sad disordered perverse sensibilities of a minority while discomforting and possibly endangering women with God-ordained sensibilities?
Let's make them really squeal, with something that is more real and observable than just names on an internet site.
Let Target's death be a particularly unpleasant and humiliating one
...the issue is accommodating (and subsidizing) a depraved desire at the expense of the discomfort and possible danger of those with normal and Biblical sensibilities...
That is exactly the issue. No more. No less.
Can we look at this situation under a magnifying glass?
The bible pounding group wants to just keep itself at a degree of “unpollution” that it considers appropriate.
But have they ever thought of letting themselves be “polluted” by a degree of God’s love that permits them to enter compromising situations from the viewpoint of the world?
This is starting to look like the way Jesus caught grief for meeting up with tax collectors and sinners and gluttons and drunkards.
You may reply that He urged all to repent and that would be quite true.
But you never get that to happen by showing nothing BUT wrath. That teaches the lesson that the essence of life itself is about wrath, rather than something that is beyond the wrath.
Will Target turn into a mecca for the sexually sinful? That might be turned by God into a good thing. This is where they can be preached to about a better way, but a mixed message that says “damn you as long as we get our own” is unconvincing. The evangelists of old visited the bowery and the skid row far more often than they visited the tony places in town.
And which is not opposed to showing grace to such, nor is opposition hypocritical, as (hopefully) boycott advocates are not claiming they not all sinners, but (hopefully) are not impenitently defending such and demanding accommodation for practicing it to the discomfort and possible danger of others who do not agree with it.
This is cheap and easy talk. One touchstone is, what is our sacrifice? It is very little, Target being a mediocre retailer.
At any rate I am not one of the million-plus, nor will I be, even though my visits have been rare. I am not going to cement myself into a rigid attitude just because a “Christian” mob is headed that way.
I’d want at least the courtesy that God showed to Sodom, visiting to see “Is this debauchery true?” Not even the permissiveness that the debauchery took advantage of, but the debauchery itself.
Who has prayed for Target? It sounds like very few.
Thanks.
And shock, horror, I might even visit a room marked for my gender (Men).
For you are persuaded... of what?
You want to wait for the first ten year old children to be raped? Are you nuts?
I want parents to teach their children what they always should have taught them about caution in public.
Expecting any place, even Walmart, to be your babysitter is just plain nuts.
For decades there has been a custom where a parent, even of the opposite sex, will accompany their very young child into a rest room — partly to prevent confusion, partly because there always are those wrong people.
You want to start to be able to go in unprotected to the market place? Are YOU nuts?
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
No, teach the children caution as they always should have been, and let the grownups do the complaining about anything untoward. The whole idea of a family restroom should be a big hint. Let Dad go in there with Susie, Mom go in there with Johnny.
I think we’ve been spoiled, we’ve expected society to be an oasis. Without thinking of the underpinnings of any lasting respite, which is not fig leaves. Just watch “liberals” make mincemeat of the situation. This has been, what, a week? You can bet lefty planners are not stunned, but have been ready for this with countermoves.
I can sympathize with the sentiment, however at some point we cannot cover every wall with foam padding. We have to be careful not to charge into it with uncovered heads.
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