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06-24-2007, 12:56 PM
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Wal-Mart rescinds support of LGBT organizations
From The Advocate News:
Wal-Mart rescinds support of LGBT organizations Heeding the threat of a boycott by Christian groups and the disapproval of many employees, mega-retailer Wal-Mart has opted to stop supporting LGBT organizations, Fortune magazine's online site reported Friday. "We are not currently planning corporate-level contributions to GLBT groups," Mona Williams, Wal-Mart's senior vice president of corporate communications, told the magazine. She also cited a Wal-Mart policy penned last year that prohibits "support[ing] or oppos[ing] highly controversial issues." The decision comes only a year after Wal-Mart joined the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, an organization of 24,000 gay- and lesbian-owned businesses, and cosponsored the Out & Equal workplace rights group. "I thought the company was moving in the right direction," one Wal-Mart employee wrote in an e-mail to Fortune. "But last week changed everything. Pulling funding from GLBT organizations is a slap in the face to gay employees, and it sends a very clear message. Diversity within Wal-Mart is only partially inclusive." Williams said that Wal-Mart will be no less supportive of its LGBT personnel. In fact, many sources indicated to Fortune that Wal-Mart is working harder to educate employees about LGBT-related issues. "We certainly don't feel [the decision] is a retrenchment," Williams also said. Selisse Berry, director of Out & Equal, concurred. "Wal-Mart continues to engage on the issue of worker equality, and we will support them in that....This is a marathon, not a sprint, and so long as Wal-Mart keeps its doors open, we hope to give them encouragement," she said in the article. (The Advocate) http://www.advocate.com
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06-24-2007, 02:09 PM
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Congratulations, I'm going to starve to death.
Thanks a lot Rick. Now where am I supposed to do my grocery shopping at three o'clock in the morning?
 And that picture was taken yesterday!
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06-27-2007, 01:11 PM
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Funny Title
 Congratulations, I'm going to starve to death.LOL!!! Do I hear sarcasm. Unfortunate now that is another thing to add to my list to why I should not shop at wal-mart, but because of current finances I have to go. Then when the money is better it si off to Cosco; they donate to the Democratic party or what we have here in Texas is HEB Plus.
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10-10-2007, 06:57 PM
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Why is it that when the fundies say "jump" people ask "how high?" You'd think they were running the country or something.
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10-11-2007, 03:17 AM
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One step up and two steps back.
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10-11-2007, 02:02 PM
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one more reason to not shop at evil wal mart. wal mart has already kowtowed to the religious right by not having ru486 in the pharmacies. PLus, you ever go to the book section? It's all friggin "christian fiction" like left behind. And bibles. They did have harry potter this year but i was surprised.
i hae wal mart and only go there for stuff i can't get anywhere else.
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10-11-2007, 03:35 PM
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Forgive me for straying off topic, but those Left Behind books look really stupid. I've never bothered to read one, cause for one, I don't buy the whole rapture thing.
I suppose next thing you know Pat Robertson will threaten to boycott McDonald's if they don't include a religious pamphlet in each happy meal. Where will I eat then???? 
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10-11-2007, 03:42 PM
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Key part of how I lost 65 pounds in 9 months ... boycotting McDonalds.AND.... DON'T READ THE LEFT BEHIND NOVELS. They make you fat too! (not really) and they are REALLY POORLY WRITTEN! AND they are theological, biblical BS !! just my humble opinion. 
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10-11-2007, 03:50 PM
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Quote:
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10-11-2007, 03:58 PM
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OH, Come ON! I need someone to suffer down here on earth so I can really enjoy being in the PreQuel to Heaven 7 years before the commonfolk! 
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Tolerate one another, just as I have tolerated you.- Jesus Christ?
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10-11-2007, 04:07 PM
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I know, I know.  What I failed to mention in that thread is that I have a food addiction. Now I've outed myself, and on Coming Out Day! I'd discuss it, but that's a whole new thread... I'm way off topic now, so sorry. 
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10-11-2007, 09:16 PM
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Not to mention too that the guitars at Wal*Mart are crap they don't even have great sound,because i'm saving up money for a Fender Strat and couldn't care less if someone takes my First Act.
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