ALBUQUERQUE, NM Joy Junction joins Target boycott

Christian-news-in-maine.com ^ | 11 Dec. 2004 | Jeremy Reynalds, Executive Director of Joy Junction

[newsgatherer]

Last week a Salvation Army officer was playing his trombone at Walmarts
A start, a start. It takes a mighty small seed to make a mighty big tree and a mighty small snow ball to make a mighty big avalanche.

Could you freepmail me more details and maybe a picture, I would love to run it as a follow up story on Christain-news-in-maine.com.

Jake

[CindyDawg]

I'll see what I can do:')

[LauraleeBraswell]

Excuse me, but I am not critical of your personal beliefs, please be more considerate of mine.
I don't appreciate being referred to as
"A deist like you"
it's really negative

By the way, I celebrate Christmas with my family, and unless you're a Jehovah's Witness, most people don't observe Christmas for solely Christ's birth. If we did, there would just be nativity sets.

Christmas today is more of a celebration of togetherness, and giving.

So yes, I do buy Christmas presents and if I it felt justified I would boycott Target.


Please don't dictate to me which holidays I should or should not be celebrating. Oh! And the Christmas tree tradition is pagan, and Jesus was born in the Spring.

[Raycpa]

And the Christmas tree tradition is pagan, and Jesus was born in the Spring.

No one really knows when he was born. Christmas is a pagan season which the Christians co-opted.

[Mister Baredog]

and Walmart got an F on the sweatshops report card

One person's sweat shop is another person's job. I'm sure some leftie union financed report card is all you need eh?

Since the Salvation Army had been there for many years doesn't it bother you even a little bit that they were UNinvited. BTW Mervyn's(same owners) has reversed this policy, good for them.

[LauraleeBraswell]

One person's sweat shop is another person's job. I'm sure some leftie union financed report card is all you need eh?

I get the gist of what your saying.

Everyone serves, you serve, I serve. When you go to a restaurant, someone waits on you. And the next day when your doing your job, your essentially waiting on someone else.
And the left does twist this whole system around, makes it seem that factory work is just so depressing, etc. But everyone has to work.
Sweatshops however, are awful. And when we buy things from China's sweatshops we're paying for China's Nukes, Communist system, and overall oppression.
Someone did make an excellent point before, that at least working in a sweatshop is better than starving on the street,

[loboinok]

Target made a wise, customer-friendly business decision and I, for one, am thrilled!


If you are self-employed,you may want to look into new employment and if you are thinking about starting a business,you might want to put that on hold until you can figure out why ignoring 85% of your Christian consumer base in favor of the 2% homosexual agenda is not a "wise,customer-friendly business decision".

[PAR35]

I don't appreciate being referred to as
"A deist like you"
it's really negative

Deist is a label you placed on yourself. "Church- I am a Deist..."
http://www.freerepublic.com/~lauraleebraswell/

Christmas today is more of a celebration of togetherness, and giving.

The communists in the old Soviet Union used New Year's Day for that. Why pick Christmas. New Years or Martin Luther King Day would work as well, and you could save money by always shopping the after-Christmas sales.

As far as Target goes, they have made a business decision, and they should enjoy the benefit, or suffer the consequences of that decision.

[D Edmund Joaquin]

I see your red kettle and I raise you a bell clanging (and a cartridge in a bear tree)

[Reynolds]

They're not ignoring 85% of their base in favor of 2% with a homosexual agenda, for heaven's sake, and there's no need for hysterics. It doesn't always have to be about religion or the anti Christ, and I certainly don't want to live in a country where someone else's Christian doctrine is enforced on me. Target has made an excellent business decision. I've avoided stores in favor of others just to skip the bell in the past, and am delighted I may now shop Target without that hassle.

If the SA wants additional support from me they need to tweek their message for the 21st century and ask for help in a significantly less obnoxious way. They just might find people give a little more with a checkbook than what spare pennies they have in their pocket.

[brushcop]

The good work of the Salvation Army comes before any d****d political party. When I was in law enforcement, I worked closely with the SA in finding a place for some homeless person passing through on occasion and this in a very small town. Those folks are something else.

BTW, the only requirement was for the transient to help clean up the place in the morning and do what was needed, otherwise, no questions asked. They reach out to those that the rest of us ignore or avoid.

RB

[loboinok]

I certainly don't want to live in a country where someone else's Christian doctrine is enforced on me.

That is the beauty of our Constitution.You don't have to.You are entitled to your opinion,as am I.Come Feburary,we will see who Target thinks was on target.As for hysterics,TRUST ME,there was none in my last post.
Top of the day to you!

[investigateworld]

retired dick dittos, Salvation Army never refused to help anyone. God bless them.
(BTW I caught a thread* over at DU land, they hate SA and of course love Target)



*Now why does my computer have a rash?

[netmilsmom]

>>I've avoided stores in favor of others just to skip the bell in the past<<

Wow!
You must really hate giving away your spare change. Can't stand the guilt of not giving or what? Smile sweetly at the bell ringer and say Merry Christmas when you have no money. They are good people who don't care whether you give this time or not.
I love the bell ringers and will make sure I clean the change out of the ashtray of the car when I am going to go by one.

My nephew rang for a year, he loved it! My girls love to put money in too. In fact, at this time of year, each will get coins out of their money cans just in case.

I pray that you will never need the services of SA.

[LauraleeBraswell]

" A Christian like you wouldn't understand." I am well aware of the description in my profile.

Please don't dictate to me, which holidays I may or may not celebrate.

[PAR35]

A Christian like you wouldn't understand.

I consider that a compliment.

Please don't dictate to me, which holidays I may or may not celebrate.

Celebrate or don't celebrate Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Ramadan or Winter Solstice. I don't care.

[Robert Drobot]

Are you employed directly or indirectly by Target?

[Redbob]

"Can anyone explain to me the logic in Boycotting Target and not boycotting wal-mart at the same time?"

I'll try:
for me, it has to do with the Salvation Army kettle out front of our local Wal-Mart this weekend - to which we happily donated.

[185JHP]

I've been cutting my shopping with them for years, b/c of their contributions to baby-killers. Then I bought the book "Masonic and Occult Symbols Illustrated" by Dr. Cathy Burns. The logo Target uses looks more like a symbol used by occultists than a target you'd shoot your .45 at. The symbol has to do with the male organ and the female organ.