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We've been through this before. The AFA are being a bunch of idiots because this is just an affiliate plan. The only way you contribute to the gays is by going through their website first.
On the other hand, Wal-mark employees are now suppose to say "Merry Christmas" this year and Best Buys are doing the "Happy Holidays."
This was posted the other day.
Why bother contacting the boneheads just call it
"Gaymart" sodimizing a neighborhood near you.
Do you know how many sales WalMart made through this group's website prior to the AFA having a hissy? ONE SALE. One sale for $41.48.
I'm sure that the web site appreciates the free advertising the AFA has given them. Idiots.
What does it mean by "ALL online purchases made at Wal-Mart through the homosexual group's Web site"? How can you buy at Walmart through another website?
Can someone PLEASE invent an affliction for normal, straight, fair-skinned males so that I can get protected status, too?
This is an exact replay of some Amazon.com complaint from a few years ago... Wal-mart has an "affiliates" program that pays a referral commission to the referring web site. FR could probably set up a similar deal, and get 5% of sales referred via FR.
The AFA are twisting the facts
This is a referral incentive with the group which I'm sure walmart has with other groups and organizations as well.
It's simply a case of, 'You send business my way and I'll throw you a bone'.
Wal-Mart has agreed to automatically donate 5% of online sales directly to the Washington DC Community Center for Gay, Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender People. The cash donation will come from ALL online purchases made at Wal-Mart through the homosexual group's Web site.
What a horribly misleading title. Did these morons JUST discover what an on-line affiliate program is?
I'm a Libertarian, and I think it's great that gay people are joining up with Wal Mart to participate in capitalism!
Article title is a flat out lie. I hate the homosexual agenda, but this doesn't help anybody. They only get 5% of the sales directed from their site. And it is a commission. It is sorta how the internet works. I will not use that particular site.
I don't think this article is factual. %5 of Wall Mart is comparable to many nations GDP. This is Bull$hit.
Paying "protection" to the anti-capitalist socialists again??
I'm positive it's not 5% of all online sales. Do you know how much money 5% of all of walmart's online sales probably is? The management of the company would be fired instantly if they were going to donate 5% of their sales of anything to anyone.
The problem isn't that they opposed WalMart on this issue. The problem is that they were so desperate for the issue to gain traction that they stoooped to lying. Yes, that's right, I'm calling them on it. It's a lie. Not just a "distortion" or even a "misrepresentation." It's an outright lie. What Wal-Mart actually did, may or may not be worthy of a boycott. (Frankly my wife would find it hard to stretch our budget enough to feed our large family without Wal-Mart's grocery prices, but we are willing to make sacrifices when the cause clearly justifies it.) But the problem is that Mr. Wildmon wouldn't tell us what Wal-Mart actually did. Instead he made up something they didn't do and told us that because he thought it would sound more exciting.
Judge for yourself. AFA says:
Wal-Mart has agreed to automatically donate 5% of online sales directly to the Washington DC Community Center for Gay, Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender People.
Is that true? not at all. It is just 5% out of a tiny fraction of Walmart's online sales. Viz., 5% of all referred sales that come from the GLBTP (or whatever) website. Wildmon's charge quoted above is false.
The cash donation will come from ALL online purchases made at Wal-Mart through the homosexual group's Web site.
In the next sentence (quoted above) Wildmon covers his tracks by spelling out the true situation, but muddies the truth deliberately so that what stays in most readers' minds is the original lie. He even allcaps "ALL online purchases" to distract from the fact that it's just the referral business that's at issue, not Walmart's own direct online sales at all.
I do not deny that there is a genuine moral conundrum presented in the question of whether or not to even accept, much less solicit, referral business from flagrant moral degenerates with their own demonic political agenda. I am sure Freepers would line up on both sides of that question. I'm not taking sides on it at the moment, and I'm not sure which side I'd come down on. But I know for sure I am not going to endorse, support, encourage, or promote this AFA lie because it undermines the very cause AFA is trying to stand for. We must not only stand for what is right and against what is wrong, we must always do so by doing what is right and not doing what is wrong. The end never justifies the means. If it does, then the moral relativists are right after all, and we might as well quit caring about anything.
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Leaving aside the prickly issue of such an alliance, this is a fairly typical arrangement for referred purchases