Posted on 06/20/2011 6:49:39 AM PDT by Gopher Broke
Home Depot petitions delivered - see their response June 6, 2011
On Thursday, June 3, American Family Association delivered 474,161 petition signatures to Home Depot chairman Frank Blake. AFA also addressed the board of directors and shareholders during their annual meeting.
AFA Vice-president Buddy Smith appealed to Chairman Blake to review Home Depot's extensive support for homosexual activism and direct the company toward neutrality in the culture war.
Chairman Blake quickly discounted the petitions by reaffirming Home Depot's commitment to dedicating corporate resources to groups who advocate gay marriage and the advancement of homosexuality and transgenderism.
(Excerpt) Read more at afa.net ...
You are correct about K-Mart. We stopped shopping here in response to the boycott. I think they took a real beating in some parts of the country.
As far as “big box” home improvement stores go, I only have a Home Depot nearby, there’s no Lowe’s.
Having said that, I still do have a few smaller chains/franchises, such as True Value and Ace nearby, and there are even a few family-owned stores around. I shop at the family-owned stores first, then will go to True Value or Ace if necessary.
I absolutely refuse to do business with Home Depot. I disliked HD before they decided to throw in with the perverts, and only shopped there out of desperation, but there’s no way I’ll shop there now.
In 2004, during Florida’s ‘hurricane clean-up’ I bought a chain saw at Home Depot. It was defective, and would only run for a few minutes.
They insisted on repairing it. When I went to pick it up, they said “That will be $64.”
We argued, then I took a photo of their “MONEY BACK GUARANTEED WITHIN 90 DAYS” sign. They went crazy over me doing that, but stopped short of my “Molon Labe” invitation RE: my camera.
After the Florida State Attorney General took them to the woodshed, Home Depot called and said “There’s been a misunderstanding...”
I choose my retail stores on really dumb things, like how far away it is, service, price, and if they have what I want.
What did you win, a victory over your wife?
I love my Ace hardware, especially the plumbing guy.
I go in and say “this is what I need” or “this is what I’m doing”, and he sets me up with all the stuff I need (even telling me to go a different route than planned sometimes).
Time to buy stock in Lowes.
Next year, we are building an addition onto our house. Guess where we will shop?
I just tried to send a message to the HD CEO regarding my opinion on their position promoting perversion, and their website does not have a submit button. Interesting.
They're more effective than if people just say nothing. The AFA has definitely been effective in getting some corporations, notably McDonalds, to stop pandering so much to the homosexual activists. Ford was also moved to change policies.
In corporations, even miniscule increments in profitability matter. So $1,500 going to a competitor in one year, multiplied by 100's of customers, is noted.
I did more than sign the petition to Home Depot. I made copies of all of my Lowe's receipts and will attach them to my personal letter to my local Home Depot store manager to show exactly how much they're losing.
“Homo” Depot should change their logo colors from orange to rainbow.
In the meantime, Lowe’s, Menard’s (regionally), and major hardware chains such as Ace have begun to eat Homo Depot’s lunch.
I’m an 84 Lumberjack and I’m OK....
I have a small True Value that is 10 miles closer than either HD or Lowe’s. It is very well stocked, locally owned and PRICE competitive on most items. I stop there first when on a shopping mission.
The weird irony is that the construction business is full of butch homosexuals. They are less visible because they often do not associate with “pink” or effeminate homosexuals, nor do they dress or behave in an outlandish way.
It gets strange, because if you go into a heterosexual working men’s bar, the men will be a mix of male types, but a butch homosexual construction bar tends to look, as one person described it, like walking into a cave full of cro-magnons wearing work clothes. Well mannered, but big, muscular, and tough. Often very conservative, politically, as another irony, except about homosexual issues.
But Home Depot management probably figures it will get more business from these individuals than it will lose otherwise.
...’butch homosexual construction bar’...??? How did you ever even find one of those?
“I did more than sign the petition to Home Depot. I made copies of all of my Lowe’s receipts and will attach them to my personal letter to my local Home Depot store manager to show exactly how much they’re losing.”
I have a Lowe’s, Menards and Ace close-by. Good-bye, Home Depot.
“Get more than a screw at Home Depot”
I didn’t. But I had professional dealings with a gay, cro-magnon type who was a superior sword maker, one of the best in the western US, before he quit due to lung problems. He may have looked like a troglodyte, but he was a library of metallurgy, and produced “name” blades for experts, at seven kinds of prices.
The description of blue collar gay bars is his. I believe him.
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