Wal-Mart Drops Gay Sex How-To Manual for Teens after LifeSiteNews.com Expose

LifeSite ^ | Friday November 17, 2006 | By John-Henry Westen

[Irisshlass]

BENTONVILLE, AR, November 15, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A graphic sex-ed manual promoting lesbianism to teenage girls has been dropped by Wal-Mart only days after LifeSiteNews.com published a story exposing Wal-Mart's sale of the controversial book.

Produced by St. Stephens' Community House in Toronto, the book is titled "The Little Black Book for Girlz: A Book on Healthy Sexuality". Parents were outraged when they learned of the book which gives detailed instruction for teens to engage in lesbian sex acts.

read the rest of the story at:

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/nov/06111703.html

[gb63]

Work with me on this concept...
If Walmart wishes to attract more black people to its stores, does it have a right to place an ad in the local 'black' newspaper, showing pictures of happy black people using clothes from WalMart? How can you say No?
Now since 2% of the population is gay, can Walmart place an ad in a 'gay' site or place showing 'gay' people shopping at Walmart? How can you say No?
Does WalMart promote 'blackness'? Now, does Walmart promote 'gayness'? Inquiring minds want to know....

[taillightchaser]

Didn't the hildabeast used to be on the Walmart board?? If my memory is correct, then that would explain a lot.

[gidget7]

I have never had a problem with stuff walmart carries, and have always applauded their community action efforts! They do more for communities than the liberal agenda ever will! It was a shock to a lot of us when these events transpired, since we (those I know) were some of walmarts biggest promoters.

It saddened us that this agenda would be taken up by them, and we hope they change all the new policies.

[ElPatriota]

Another thing... SUPPORT our organizations who actually do the heavy lifting. $5, $10, $25... whatever you can afford, will be money WELL SPENT!

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[gb63]

They made the mistake of putting her on the board when she was just another run-of-the-mill lawyer married to an Arkansas politican...

[Sally'sConcerns]

It saddened us that this agenda would be taken up by them, and we hope they change all the new policies.

What agenda are you specifically referring to? If it's that 5% deal then that's not even WM's agenda. Do you know what an affiliate program is? I'll be happy to do my best to explain it to you if you don't cos a lot of people don't understand how that works.

Like you said, WM does so much for local communities that I just hate it when good people decide to boycott them (and end up spending alot more of their hard earned money) because there's a misunderstanding.

[gidget7]

Already do ;)

[ElPatriota]

Oooops.. I usually send my posts to "All" so no one is put on the spot :) - Great for you :)

[Irisshlass]

Can we please give a little credit to WalMart?
Don't hold your breath.


Yes I do give credit to Walmart. I wanted to send a note of thanks, but couldn't find their comment section at their site.

[gidget7]

"Work with me on this concept...
If Walmart wishes to attract more black people to its stores, does it have a right to place an ad in the local 'black' newspaper, showing pictures of happy black people using clothes from WalMart? How can you say No? "


Well that depends. Are these black people you speak of, or this black newspaper, promoting homosexual marriage or promoting books that contain the equivelent of porn and encourage kids to practice unsafe sexual lifestyles? Is that what they are promoting in other words? If so then No.

Race has nothing to do with it. Homosexuality is a free will life choice, and no sexually explicit material has ever been allowed at Walmart. This should be no different.

[Gabz]

have no problem with inclusiveness, but to perform their marketing and sales techniques as they always have, without making any special exception to any groups, IS inclusive and should offend no one.

And I don't see how WM has done anything offensive.

Life site does make people aware of all companies and their policies, yes.

If this is true, why was only WalMart includedin the press release and not other retailers of this book?

But nor should they enter the political sphere and promote agendas. By serving all people, they already serve all people.

WalMart belongs to 100's of Chambers of Commerce all over the country and make the same type agreements with those CofC's as any other member. WM did not promote their membership in the Gay and Lesbian Chamber, the Chamber issued the press release. Yet it was WalMart that keeps being called on about promoting the homoseexual agenda. I want to know how they have done any such thing?

As to the Affiliate program, WalMart wasn't promoting it, AFA went out of it's way to find a connection with the gay group and WalMart. 1,000s of websites use that affiliate program, it's a marketing tool and the guidelines for membership are primarily set by the clearinghouse network that operates it, not the individual stores that offer the rebates to websites linking to them. If AFA had a truly altruistic motive in bringing these affiliate programs to the forefront, they would have not had a totally false headline on their press release, nor would they have gone after WM, they would have gone after the network that runs the affiliate program. Instead, they falsely attacked WalMart.

After these and a few other instances, I find anything coming from Lifesite and AFA to be as suspect as anything that comes from any anti-smoker organization.

[Irisshlass]

Okay, let's take a quick survey. Has anyone actually picked this book up and looked through it ?

I haven't personally picked up the book and looked at it...but you can view some of it at these links.


http://www.canadianvalues.ca/little_black_book_pages/example_1.jpg

http://www.canadianvalues.ca/little_black_book_pages/example_2.jpg

http://www.canadianvalues.ca/little_black_book_pages/example_3.jpg

http://www.canadianvalues.ca/little_black_book_pages/example_4.jpg

http://www.canadianvalues.ca/little_black_book_pages/example_5.jpg

http://www.canadianvalues.ca/little_black_book_pages/example_6.jpg

http://www.canadianvalues.ca/little_black_book_pages/example_8.jpg

http://www.canadianvalues.ca/little_black_book_pages/example_9.jpg

http://www.canadianvalues.ca/little_black_book_pages/example_10a.jpg

[Right Wing Assault]

St. Stephen's Community House is an independent organization..not Catholic.

I left my sarcasm tag off. I didn't say it was Catholic. It is named after a saint. If I were that saint, I wouldn't be happy that such a place was named after me no matter who runs it.

I don't think St. Stephen would be proud of your comment.

Why not? Just sticking up for him and his name.

[Irisshlass]

I agree..I misunderstood, sorry.

[Gabz]

Both Amazon and WM used the exact same wording to describe the book so I'm pretty sure that was the publisher's description. Kind of sneaky but then I'm also relatively certain the publisher knew how people would respond if an accurate representation of the book was made available.

I'm in complete and total agreement with you.

Which is EXACTLY why I find this attack on WalMart by Life Site to be suspect. Why not attack the publisher, or at least Amazon along with WalMart?

That is my sole objection to this entire situation.....it is singling out one, and giving others a pass. I don't deal with Amazon, but I would take the exact same position if they had gone after Amazon and gave the publisher or WalMart a pass. Heck, I would have the same position if it were Target or Barnes and Noble, and have nothing good to say about either of those stores.

[gidget7]

"What agenda are you specifically referring to? If it's that 5% deal then that's not even WM's agenda. Do you know what an affiliate program is? I'll be happy to do my best to explain it to you if you don't cos a lot of people don't understand how that works. "


Not just the 4%, that wouldn't have bothered me so much. It was the donations like the one in the previous post, that are disturbing. And the carrying of products that are in direct conflict with the general populations wishes and beliefs. Children should NEVER be exposed to this sort of thing, or any sexually explicit material, but especially by a company that serves the general public and in a great part, families.

Yes I do know how business works, as my family has been in business all my life.
I also know what it is like to have these agenda driven activists attempt to force their agenda on a business. They come in and tell you that having a zero tolerance on discrimination and bullying etc, for any reason, is not enough, you must single out and specify their special interest group. Sorry but for any reason covers it. And so should it be in not marketing sexually explicit material.

[Gabz]

The more people like you shove the agenda of AFA in the face of people like me, the more people like me suspect AFA of having an ulterior motive against WalMart and NOT against the homosexual agenda.

[Sender]

It is a commission of 5% of any sale generated by clicking through a link to Wal-Mart from the gay site. According to Neal Boortz, they have had just one such sale in years, earning a total profit for the gay site of 4 dollars. I guess they shop somewhere else!

[MamaB]

Never heard about it until someone posted it on this site.

[Gabz]

Yes I do give credit to Walmart.

Granted, you do, but other just keep spewing out the lies and attacks at WalMart.

I'm still waiting for someone to answer my question as to why Life Site singled out WalMart and did not go after the publisher or Amazon. The fact the headline and press release was about WalMart leads me to believe they have more against WM than this book.

Yes my position is cynical and ticks off a lot of people, but in the course of my years in politics, activism, and grassroots activities I have found out that more times than not the alleged "good guys" are actually worse than the "bad guys" they attack.