Wal-Mart: 'gay-friendly' & proud of it (Baptists are upset, cry me a river)

[The Straight Story]

Wal-Mart: 'gay-friendly' & proud of it

Oct 31, 2006
By Erin Roach
Baptist Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--On its official walmartstores.com website, Wal-Mart promotes its alliances with homosexual groups along with other minority groups on a webpage devoted to diversity.

Under the heading, “Relationships with Minority and Women Constituent Groups,” Wal-Mart says its diversity relations division “establishes and maintains productive, trust-based partnerships with women and minority stakeholder groups, community leaders and suppliers to continually improve Wal-Mart's reputation as a socially responsible enterprise.”

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Among a list of minority groups including African Americans, Asians, women and Hispanics is a subheading called “Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender.” The groups listed under that category are the Human Rights Campaign, National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, Out & Equal (Workplace Advocates) and The Point Foundation.

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As additional evidence of Wal-Mart’s support of the homosexual agenda, the American Family Association circulated an e-mail to its 3 million supporters Oct. 23 listing some books sold by Wal-Mart that promote “gay marriage.” Among the titles are “What God Has Joined Together: The Christian Case for Gay Marriage,” “Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America,” “Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry” and “Gay Marriage, Real Life: Ten Stories of Love and Family.”

http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=24287

Reading the whole article is rather scary. How is wal mart so popular when it seems everyone hates em for something?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

1. Excellent. Let them tear each other apart. -nt

[louis-t]

2. I don't care, I'm still not going to Wal-Mart.

My hatred for them goes back at least 10 years. There was a documentary, you know, back when we had a real media, about their "Made in America" campaign. Signs were on every clothing rack that said "Made in America".
Problem was, none of the clothing on the rack was made here. They sent a reporter to the garment factory in Malaysia or someplace with a hidden camera. He pretended to be a buyer. The workers were 9 and 10 year old kids and they were living in the factory. They worked 10 to 12 hours a day. Their room and board was deducted from their meager salaries. It was sickening. The plant manager told them he could have labels sewn on the garments to say they were made elsewhere. I think that was the first time I realized that I needed to become politically active.

[AnnInLa]

3. Remember when they banned the Jon Stewart book?

I don't trust Wal Mart.

[renate]

4. how'd I get into this parallel universe?

Where I come from, Wal-Mart mistreats employees and drives small businesses out of town and its name is a hissing and a byword.

Besides, the way I know that this parallel-universe Wal-Mart can't be real is that the following paragraph is too silly to be true:

AFA also reported that a quick search of Wal-Mart’s website turned up 1,148 gay items for sale, 468 lesbian items, 40 transgender items, 38 bisexual items and 26 “gay marriage” items. The pro-family organization did not elaborate on the nature of those items.

Now, in my universe also, the AFA is composed of wingnuts and reactionaries. But even they cannot be so silly as to come up with the idea of a "bisexual item."

[MazeRat7]

5. Walmart is done... short 'em if you can....

I can't think of better karma when making money.. eg the fall of a corporation that has been the ruin of small and locally owned business....

MZr7

[Pithlet]

6. Well, credit where it's due.

I'm not going to change my stance and start shopping there just yet, but it's good to see some glimmer of humanity, even if it's likely motivated at least in part by a desire to fatten the bottom line and improve their corporate image. I hope they stand up to American Family Association.