This is a really deep disappointment. Gone the way of the Boy Scouts of America. Just sad.
I try to be pragmatic about a lot of these things, but over a lifetime, I have upheld a number of boycotts of entities I once liked or patronized, but who let me down, grossed me out, or insulted common decency:
Elizabeth Taylor
Woody Allen
Barbra Streisand
Any Democrat running for office at any level, since about 1999
Target stores, since 20+ years ago when they OUSTED the Salvation Army over LGBT policy
Oprah Winfrey
Bruce Springsteen
Dave Letterman
Ben & Jerry's
Bill Cosby
Coca-Cola
Prince Harry
For years, I favored SA over GoodWill because GW was paying its CEO megabucks.
Now this. So sad.
My Brother-in-Law as a young batchelor came home some fifty years ago to his apartment late on Christmas Eve to find the building surrounded by firefighters and his apartment, with all of his prized jazz vinyl collection destroyed, not to mention every single thing he owned. He was completely destitute on Christmas Eve, with only the clothes on his back. And it was the Salvation Army that gave him shelter, food, money, and clothes.
Then, around 30 years ago, I was working with a very elderly patient who had been in the Army in WWI and was wounded in action in France. He told me had spent nearly a year in the hospital near the front before he was well enough to travel, the Red Cross was there, but they made the wounded soldiers pay for everything...especially cigarettes. At the mention of the Red Cross, he had that expression of someone so angry that they looked as if they were going to spit on the ground. After all those years, he still held a grudge against the Red Cross because they made him pay for his cigarettes. Then, he spoke in glowing tones about The Salvation Army. They had not made them pay, they gave them the cigarettes for free.
Because of both of those stories told to me by people directly helped by the Salvation Army, my wife and I gave to them every year during the Christmas Season, and we both gave money to the Kettles.
That is why I feel sadness, and grief. I hate feeling this way towards them. But I am not going to be a party to giving money to an organization that fosters racially based practices that are at the heart of Critical Race Theory which they inflict on employees.