[Egon]

As someone who evidently lives in one of the blue states, let me say that it is obvious where your sympathies lie. Target chose the easy road, the one that the MSM would give them little or no heat about.

In my opinion, you are taking the easy road as well. It's easy to sit here and type, saying Good=good and Bad=bad, and Target=Bad. It takes a little more intellectual exercise to actually sit back and ponder the choices that Target was forced into, and decide what the alternatives would be.

I happen to respect Target. I'll admit that respect has grown since I met my wife (who was already working at Target) and was given insight into the charities that Target works with, as well as the other good that they do.

I've been contracting with them for the past couple of years as one of my primary contracts. Some of the rose-color has been stripped from my glasses as I've learned that they are a corporation like any other that I've worked with. They've got the same back-stabbers, the same beauracratic mentality that I've found anywhere else. They treat contractors less well than some places I've been at, but better than a few.

Target has good policies, and they have some stupid ones. My sympathies lie with the idea that this corporation, any corporation would be put into a position of being damned if they do, and damned if they don't. And, once damned, they're vilified by both sides.

Someone on the Minnesota thread, I can't remember the name offhand, made an excellent observation: Corporations should not be in the charity business. They shouldn't give, as a company, at all.

I tend to agree.

If it were my private company, I'd be inclined to fight the impending lawsuits. It's not my private company, though, and given the stockholders and employees that the company is beholden to, I think they made the best of three lousy choices.

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

Target, like most large corporations in America today is managed by baby boomer punks who have no moral center and will say and do anything to extend their own position. Now that Target has come out of the closet and publicly sided with the sodomites, the choice for all right thinking individuals should be clear. Do not shop at Target. End of story.

[squirt-gun]

Re # 142

Target has a perfect right to decide this issue as they have. Accordingly, People have a right to reflect on target's decision and then decide whether or not they want to shop there.Its really very simple.

I hope they loose a bundle on this. Alternately, I have no hard feelings for those people who do shop there.....Its America, Darling.

[St. Johann Tetzel]

I've been contracting with them for the past couple of years as one of my primary contracts.

And you wife works for them.

You should recuse yourself from these threads. You cannot possibly be objective regarding Target.