2 companies that the
LGBT community spend a lot of money at, Target and
Best Buy have both gave donations to Minnesota Forward, an anti-gay group supporting
Republican Tom Emmer.
Gay.com reports that Emmer opposes gay
marriage, supports
Arizona's
illegal immigration bill and advocates
chemical castration for
sex offenders. While you may not disagree with all of those positions, it is sad that both companies that the LGBT community supports through shopping would support a candidate that does not support our own community. That means our shopping dollars are supporting our enemies.
I think this is a little overboard. All companies give to candidates. Did Target make a mistake? Yes. Does this make Target less of an equal employer? No. DOes this mean Target won't contribute to future LGBT initiaties? I don't think so. So what exactly is this then? Could it be that target is trying to appeal to the base in which that community is built upon? Probalby. However, it does not make it correct but at the same time a boycott is going to solve nothing. All it will do it cause the anti-gay folks to shop more at Target causing a 0 net effect. If you want to make Target more aware of thier wrong doing, why not create an email campaign to flood their email system??? That will surly get noticed by the company. You could also get Ellen ,Oprah or other such celebrety to act on the issue by flooding their offices with email as well. In any respect, does 150K really mean anything to a candidate? Its a drop in the bucket. (Granted the wrong bucket, and a drop never the less).
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