[1311] in peace2
Salvation Army Boycott (PFLAG)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aimee L Smith)
Wed Dec 12 23:11:39 2001
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Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 23:11:32 -0500
From: Aimee L Smith <alsmith@MIT.EDU>
Jesus loves the straight male children...
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>PFLAG has launched a campaign to boycott the Salvation Army by
>dropping little notes in their buckets letting them know that
>they would have gotten 5 bucks, instead of a nasty note, if they
>weren't such morons. Please visit the PFLAG Web site, where
>you can download the notes, and get more information on this
>campaign.
>Scott Parisi
>People2People Group
>617-425-2631
>
>
>http://www.pflag.org/advocacy/action.html
>
>PFLAG LAUNCHES BOYCOTT OF SALVATION ARMY
>You gotta hand it to PFLAG - when they're right, they're
>right. The organization everyone loves to love has just
>launched a boycott of the virulently anti-gay Salvation
>Army. As many of you know, the Salvation Army is actually an
>evangelical Christian organization and really really really
>doesn't like gay people. They even explicitly refuse to
>hire gay people, and a few months ago worked out a behind-
>the-scenes deal with the Bush Administration to codify that
>anti-gay hiring ban in the proposed faith-based-initiative.
>(For more info on that, read my story written at the time:
>http://uspolitics.about.com/library/weekly/aa071001a.htm )
>
>Well, the latest bigoted shoe to drop from the Salvation Army
>happened a few weeks ago. You see, a number of western state
>Salvation Armies decided that they in fact like gay people,
>and wanted to give their gay staff domestic partner benefits
>(though not clear what gay staff they have, since the
>national office bans gay hires). Well, America's Taliban got
>its turban in a tizzy and launched a barrage of protests
>calls, emails and letters to the Salvation Army headquarters.
>And what do you think the hq did? They caved, and over-ruled
>the local Salvation Armies. So now, the Salvation Army
>nationwide will have domestic partner benefits, but it will
>exclude gay and lesbian employees from those benefits. And
>these people think we're going to give them money?
>
>Well, that's where PFLAG-the-avenger comes in. PFLAG has
>launched a campaign to boycott the Salvation Army by dropping
>little notes in their buckets letting them know that they
>would have gotten 5 bucks, instead of a nasty note, if they
>weren't such morons. Please visit the PFLAG Web site, where
>you can download the notes, and get more information on this
>campaign. And please tell your friends about this site
>(links provided below), and about the Salvation Army's
>bigoted position on gays and lesbians. Most people aren't
>familiar with how "radical right" and intolerant an
>organization the Salvation Army really is. Which is really
>too bad. I always grew up thinking they were the good
>guys...
>
>Finally, don't forget - while you shouldn't give a DIME to
>the Salvation Army, make sure you do give to another
>organization. No reason the poor should suffer simply
>because the Salvation Army wanted to take a slap at
>minorities at Christmas-time.
>
>This is the link to the Salvation Army boycott page:
>http://www.pflag.org/advocacy/action.html
>
>This is the link to the notes you can download to drop in the
>Salvation Army buckets:
>http://www.pflag.org/advocacy/salvationarmy.PDF
>
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