Posted on 07/29/2009 11:05:10 AM PDT by jimluke01
Home Depot is helping to introduce children to the homosexual lifestyle.
The Nashville Gay Pride website notes that Home Depot contributed more than $5,000 to help finance the 2009 festival. The retailer also participated by conducting children's craft workshops at a special booth set up for them. The company has sponsored similar children's venues at pro-homosexual events in Atlanta, Kansas City, Durham, Portland, and San Diego.
Matt Barber of Liberty Counsel tells OneNewsNow the home improvement store is facilitating the exposure of children to sinful behavior.
"Out of some kind of notion of political correctness and being tolerant, Home Depot is contributing to all of this," he notes. "They're contributing to the corruption of children, and they need to answer for that."
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There are moral and immoral ways to seek business profits. Homo Depot has, if the reports above are anywhere close to accurate, been dabbling in the immoral side.
What happened to the old fashioned idea of advertising a decent product at a fair price and let it sell itself without dipping into the issue politics du jour?
Now let’s not get naughty
Local chain home improvement stores are worth looking at. In my neck of the woods it’s Menards. Elsewhere there are places like 84 Lumber. Visit the yellow pages (physical or online) and look for home improvement stores. The selection is often considerable when hometown establishments are included.
Well who else will buy the pink spray paint?
I think I will just cut up my card and send it back, and tell them why.
> There are moral and immoral ways to seek business profits. Homo Depot has, if the reports above are anywhere close to accurate, been dabbling in the immoral side.
I think we run into real rocks and shoals when we try to define “morality” in money terms, or “money” in morality terms. Definitely there is a line that must never be crossed: when people do cross that line, then it is almost certain that a law has been broken.
A business spending $5,000-ish to sponsor a homosexual prance-fest isn’t breaking any laws. It can be argued that they are showing poor judgment, and that they risk alienating some of their clientele who disapprove of homosexual prance-fests. But surely that is a choice that they get to make in a free society?
And if Home Depot cater to children during the prance-fest, it’s probably better than having the children running around unsupervised, targets for any child molesterer that happens to be at the festivities.
I don’t approve of their prance-fest, and I definitely would not bring my kids to Home Depot on the day of their festivities. That would be about as far as I’d feel comfortable in showing my disapproval. What message are we trying to send to Home Depot? That homosexualists shouldn’t be allowed to by four-by-two’s? I can’t see any other practical messages being sent by “making Home Depot pay”.
> What happened to the old fashioned idea of advertising a decent product at a fair price and let it sell itself without dipping into the issue politics du jour?
Commerce and politics have long enjoyed(?) an inter-twined relationship, to the point where they are probably inseparable. I don’t see that as a particularly bad thing.
> But not for the same purpose, eh?
I shudder to think what purpose they might put their purchases to!
I agree. I will continue to shop where I get the best price and is closer to home. In this case, it’s Home Depot.
No rocks and shoals for those with a Pilot.
I don’t even have their card any more. I closed my accounts after a bunch of hokey stuff happened.
Nah. I think it is mostly queens with little interest in tools of the building kind, but just like to hang out in such a “butch” atmosphere. More than likely, they meet other queens with a similar fetish rather than actual roofers, builders, etc.
> No rocks and shoals for those with a Pilot.
Amen, particularly if we are also equipped with a finely-tuned Moral Compass.
Did you read the part where they are actively contributing thousands of dollars to "gay pride" events?
That's not just having open doors to gay people to buy their products, but openly promoting the lifestyle.
You know that this was written Charlie Butts, right?
“You know that this was written Charlie Butts, right?”
Doesn’t he have a brother named Seymour?
No ifs ands or buts as you would add.
Just because virtue isn’t blared in the headlines of every world newspaper, doesn’t mean it counts for nothing that, say, Lowes and Menards are not funding these gay things. There’s no fine moral calculus involved in withholding one’s hand from evil.
Lowes has been a major sponsor of HGTV for many years. HGTV programming regularly features many, many in-your-face gay designers and contractors.
We stopped shopping at Lowes years ago, and now we’ll avoid the depot as well. Ace and Truevalue from here on out...
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