Posted on 12/01/2005 5:12:30 AM PST by kindred
Friday, December 17, 2004
HOLIDAY BLUES Homosexuals behind Target action? Stores banned Salvation Army bell ringers from property
Posted: December 17, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern
Citing a history of homosexual attacks on the Salvation Army, pro-family activists are convinced alternative-lifestyle advocates are behind Target's decision to ban the organization's traditional red-kettle bell ringers from outside its stores.
The Rev. Rob Schenck, president of the National Clergy Council, points to a story in the homosexual publication Washington Blade published last year describing a three-year boycott of the Salvation Army's Christmas fund-raising outside retail stores.
"Gay rights groups continue to target the Salvation Army's red kettles, hoping to persuade the Christian charity organization to end its anti-gay policies," reads the Blade article.
"There is a growing body of evidence that homosexual activist groups may have placed pressure on Target to evict the Salvation Army," said Schenck in a statement. "Whether somebody in the Target chain of command sympathizes with them or not isn't known. Perhaps the company isn't even aware that this is an organized effort."
Target's decision to oust the bell ringers was made in January, just weeks after the homosexual activists' campaign was made public.
The National Clergy Council announced last Friday that it was urging its member clergy and their congregations to boycott Target stores in favor of competitors like Wal-Mart that still welcome the Salvation Army.
The Culture and Family Institute notes the homosexual drive against the red kettles was alive and well as many as three years ago. A report the organization did in 2001 cites a Midwest plan to drop phony bills containing a protest message into the Army's kettles, in lieu of cash.
Robert Knight is director of the Culture and Family Institute.
"We happen to know," Knight told AgapePress, "that the Target Corporation has been under enormous pressure from homosexual activists to dump The Salvation Army because [it] won't give domestic-partner benefits [to its employees]."
According to the AgapePress report, Rick Garcia, director of the homosexual lobby group Equality Illinois, recently admitted that activists have pressured Target to stop supporting The Salvation Army.
Related story:
Church leaders threatens Target boycott
"points to a story in the homosexual publication Washington Blade."
I thought that article was published in "Inches" magazine?
Target is the old Dayton-Hudson Co. from Minneapolis, it trades on the NYSE.
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Points to a story in the homosexual publication Washington Gay Blade.
And isn't Sen. Mark Dayton D-MN, part of that company.
Is not this the store chain owned, in large part, by one of the democrat senators who wave the white flag and support the terrorist? I think so. That is why I will not shop there.
Don't cloud the issue with facts.
I'm not setting foot in Target this year anyway. I'll shop at the sound of the bells.
Mark Dayton D-MN
I only donate to the Salvation Army kettles where the bell ringers are present and ringing.
>>hoping to persuade the Christian charity organization to end its anti-gay policies<<
May as well go pound sand, it'd be more effective.
What they're ultimately asking is for the SA (and other Christian organizations) to sell out it's Christian ideals and join the world in the un-Godly quest for "tolerance".
Which is kind of funny, considering the sodomites aren't bing "tolerant" to the SA's Christian ideals.
The family name is indeed one and the same. Except the family realizes what a moron Mark Dayton is and that they need to keep him far, far away from the business - so they bought him a Senate seat instead. :-)
I have already given twice to the SA at Wal-Mart...I haven't shopped at Target since before last Christmas!!
New Title: "Homosexual Action Targets Behind"
Haven't been listening to Bortz have you. He took this year old story apart, piece by piece, on yesterday's show.
Not to be a nitpicker, but didn't they already do that when they hired homosexual employees who are living with "domestic partners"? Or, for that matter, heterosexual employees who are living with "domestic partners."
I'm puzzled that employee benefits seems to be the "last straw" for religious/charity groups. Why didn't they take a stand regarding hiring employees who demonstrably don't share the organization's values?
Some people will believe anything.
The salvation army did that?
In the first place, Target is not French-owned. In the second place, the story you posted is from 2004, so it is not current, nor is it news.
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