Best Buy is also on the ‘targeted list’ for boycott. There is one thing that has been overlooked in this thread.

The Gay community ‘supports’ companies and organizations who are known for providing fair and equitable workplaces for the LGBT. There are awards given to these organization, and those awards are published nationally, at the expense of the organizations who support LGBT issues for equality, organizations like HRC. Many local pride organizations bolster patronage to the businesses who maintain the criteria of equality as well.

A huge portion of the LGBT and its supporters, such as PFlag, have local directories and there are national directories through which millions of people determine where they will spend their money.

Best Buy and Target have a history of their support through their employment records and to the local communiteis for theie level of equal treatment of all.

Essentially, their actions, as fair and equal employers, have led to a FREE multi-million dollar Ad Campaign and solicitaion.

It was a slap in the face when funds were donated to support election campaigns of people who are known for their prejudice and their discriminatory stand against the LGBT.

What the LGBT (and their supporters) are asking of Target and Best Buy, is that they continue to follow a long record of non-bias and fair and equal treatment by donating a similar amount to a known LGBT supporter, or at least someone who has a record of standing up for equality for all

And the reward for Target and Best Buy, would be to maintain their place in the Ad Campaign that solicits, and recommends, patronage to the LGBT, their supporters and supporters of all equality.

Of course they don’t have respond at all – but they loose the free advertising AND the patronage of millions.

Wall-Mart has been boycotted for their employment practices, their pay scale and so on - and tht had nothing to do with LGBT - that was a national campaign illicited by the straight community.

What is the difference?

By the way - have not been WalMart for many years - I still boycott them, not becasue of their treatment of Gays but because of unethical employment practices of all.

Edit - no one has ever specified choice of donations for either Target or Best Buy - it IS THEIR CHOICE and as I said, they can choose not to act at all.

what equality? gays are demanding that target donate money to the political party of their choosing, not who target wants. so whats next? telling people who to vote for?...kinda seems that's what they are saying by this. why don't the pink panthers donate their own money? because they doing just like the churches, trying to control people.

No sir, they are not making any such request.

However, I can certainly understand the value a biased person finds in confirming their bias through misinformation.

A while back I was with a bunch of friends of mine at Disneyland. We had just gotten back into the park after a visit in the parking lot to enjoy some party favors in the privacy of the van we came in (tasty 4:20 and some brews we had brought with us! Molsen Goldens! ).

Now there was a couple making out hard and heavy on a bench near the 10,000 Leagues Under The Sea sub ride. Something looked very wrong about it. Now bear in mind two of the eight people that went with us that night were a BF and GF who went with us and they were kissing in the park and had security give them crap about it. Yet 8:something PM and there was this couple making out real Mac Daddy style in the park and Security didn't say squat to them. Then we seen why. It was two guys in a FAMILY park full of kids. It was a real stomach turning moment and I thought what I had been doing was screwing with my vision. When we realized what was going on we complained to security who told us they couldn't and wouldn't do anything about it. We were pissed. They threatened to throw two of us out for kissing in line for one of the rides, as a policy would throw us out of the park if they caught us enjoying 4:20, and were prohibitionist about a hoard of other things but they would not do anything about to gays making out in front of everyone.

It was a long time since I set foot in Disneyland after that. It was wrong!

Some Homosexuals want everything and then some with no regard for anyone else! Civil Unions wasn't enough for them and to be allowed to act lewd and lasciviously in public let alone a Family Oriented Theme Park?

Nope, some of these gay boys are going too far!

real stomach turning moment

did anyone click the link i posted on there? did you not read it?
or are you saying its a lie?

it seems they have something else to get their panties in a wad now...
target donated 150,000 dollars to a republican candidate.... i guess guess gays are anti-republican now too.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- Protesters have been rallying outside Target Corp. or its stores almost daily since the retailer angered gay rights supporters and progressives by giving money to help a conservative Republican gubernatorial candidate in Minnesota. Liberal groups are pushing to make an example of the company, hoping its woes will deter other businesses from putting their corporate funds into elections.

A national gay rights group is negotiating with Target officials, demanding that the firm balance the scale by making comparable donations to benefit candidates it favors. Meanwhile, the controversy is threatening to complicate Target's business plans in other urban markets. Several city officials in San Francisco, one of the cities where Target hopes to expand, have begun criticizing the company.

so it seems gays can tell companies who to donate money to now too...


http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Liberal-groups-push-to-apf-2321043209.html?x=0

Specifically who is Target being asked to support - by name please.

By the way I did read the article - it's now your turn to respond to my question with information from the article. Specific name please.

Thank-you

If gays ever boycott video games for not having enough "Gay" heros in them, then hell has frozen over.

here.. it doesn't say who they want to give the money to, as a matter of fact, they are saying something different than what yahoo says yahoo says that target and best buy agreed to "pay the money",
while the website for HRC says they don't know what target and best buy are doing. it kind of looks like they(hrc) are lying to yall.
http://www.hrc.org/14677.htm

what equality? gays are demanding that target donate money to the political party of their choosing, not who target wants.

Specifically who is Target being asked to support - by name please.

By the way I did read the article - it's now your turn to respond to my question with information from the article. Specific name please.

here.. it doesn't say who they want to give the money to, as a matter of fact, they are saying something different than what yahoo says yahoo says that target and best buy agreed to "pay the money",
while the website for HRC says they don't know what target and best buy are doing. it kind of looks like they(hrc) are lying to yall.
http://www.hrc.org/14677.htm

did anyone click the link i posted on there? did you not read it?
or are you saying its a lie?
gays are demanding that target donate money to the political party of their choosing"

Specifically who is Target being asked to support - by name please.

me too...but it seems gays don't like republicans.

Poster ONE said:



Poster TWO said:



To which Poster ONE responded:




Obviously one of us is not comprehending 'something'. Two URLs

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Liberal-groups-push-to-apf-2321043209.html?x=0

AND

http://www.hrc.org/14677.htm

One accusation



One Responce



The reply to which does not address the question rather, it suggests that HRC is lying and Yahoo is not. However, how the poster came this decision remains a mystery, becasue neither the the two URLs in question seem to have any context to the posters newest accuation that HRC is lying while Yahoo is not.

Would POSTER ONE, care to further explain his position - to resolve the miscomprehension?

Who's to say Target donated to this candidate because he is "anti gay"

Maybe they donated to him because of other reasons.

Barack Obama and Gay Marriage/ Civil Unions:
Although Barack Obama has said that he supports civil unions, he is against gay marriage. In an interview with the Chicago Daily Tribune, Obama said, "I'm a Christian. And so, although I try not to have my religious beliefs dominate or determine my political views on this issue, I do believe that tradition, and my religious beliefs say that marriage is something sanctified between a man and a woman."
Barack Obama did vote against a Federal Marriage Amendment and opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996.

He said he would support civil unions between gay and lesbian couples, as well as letting individual states determine if marriage between gay and lesbian couples should be legalized.

http://lesbianlife.about.com/od/lesbianactivism/p/BarackObama.htm
Why haven't I heard gay's boycotting the president?

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the reason i said that hrc is lying is that yahoo posts that both companies already agreed that they would pay. but hrc says that they have no idea the the companies are going to do. if target and best did not say they would pay, then it seems that the companies would would be twiting or something that yahoo has made a false claim.
it stand to reason that hrc would not post this information because the are trying to get more support for their cause. i have seen religious organizations do this all the time, lying, misinformation, not telling the whole story just to get their nazi message out. Now we have the hrc nazis telling people who to donate their money to. these nazis only hurt the gay movement, not help it.

Thank-you for the clarification. So far in every article I have read, if there is a comment about this at all, says that Target apologized, and they would be more careful to review such situations NEXT TIME.

To most people that is not a proper responce. Target has the opportunity to PROVE their remorse by making a gesture of equal donation to a candidate whose views are more in line with fairness and equality. That's the reason the boycott continues. Any company official can make an apology but, to the people, the proof is in the pudding.

Who's to say Target donated to this candidate because he is "anti gay"

Maybe they donated to him because of other reasons.

Barack Obama and Gay Marriage/ Civil Unions:

He said he would support civil unions between gay and lesbian couples, as well as letting individual states determine if marriage between gay and lesbian couples should be legalized.

http://lesbianlife.about.com/od/lesbianactivism/p/BarackObama.htm
Why haven't I heard gay's boycotting the president?