Posted on 11/18/2005 5:11:43 AM PST by FerdieMurphy
Retail giant punished for banning Salvation Army, 'Merry Christmas'
A traditional-values organization is urging consumers to stay away from Target stores on Thanksgiving weekend, a heavy shopping period, as it continues to lead a boycott of the retailer.
The American Family Association is asking supporters not to shop at Target due to its continuing ban on Salvation Army bell ringers outside its stores and its shunning of the phrase "Merry Christmas" in-store promotions and advertising.
The most recent boycott of Target began Oct. 7, and AFA says it's beginning to affect the retailer's bottom line.
"According to USA Today, Target told investors that projected sales at stores open a year in November would miss the estimated 4 percent to 6 percent growth," said Donald E. Wildmon, AFA chairman. "On Tuesday, Target's shares dropped $4.13 to $54.30, a 7 percent decrease."
As WorldNetDaily reported, a boycott of Target was organized last year in response to its banning of the Salvation Army's traditional red-kettle solicitors. Christian activists believe Target made the move to appease the homosexual community. The retailer is a contributor to homosexual causes, and the Salvation Army has traditionally opposed the "gay" agenda.
WND broke the story last week that the Catholic League launched a boycott of Target competitor Wal-Mart for, in effect, "banning" Christmas, while promoting other seasonal holidays such as Hanukkah and Kwanzaa.
Within a day, Wal-Mart changed its website to put Christmas on an equal footing with other holidays when using the search engine and fired a staff member who sent an e-mail to a customer saying the origins of Christmas are pagan.
Wal-Mart, too, has dumped the "Merry Christmas" greeting in favor of "Happy Holidays."
Target will lose family sales, but at least they can hang on the pervert dollars.
I no longer shop at Target and haven't since they refused to allow the Salvation Army outside their stores. And which charity was one of the first in New Orleans? Salvation Army.
Well, since I don't shop at Target, I guess I won't be hurting their bottom line.
you can contact their 'investor relations' if you like ,at this address below and tell them you will be boycotting them this Christmas (not holiday season)
investorrelations@target.com
They won't see any of my money this year. It's very convenient for me to shop their, but I'll go out of my way to shop elsewhere.
To Target.....Bring back the word "Christmas" in your advertising, and I'll come back.
I restrict my Target boycott to the time when the bellringers are out at other stores, but I did sign the petition.
Christian activists see homosexuals everywhere.
The reason Target does not allow solicitors of any kind outside its stores is so that it can also forbid union organizers from handing out literature outside its stores.
If one wants to donate to the Salvation Army, there's a place on the target.com website to do so.
But just wait for the big 'After Christmas' sale ads!
If all of you stay away, it will make my shopping much, much easier.
So come on! Stand up for what you believe in! Stay away!
Target! Here I come!
Of course it is. But it seems "Christian activists" are joining gays, blacks, anti-war goofballs, and other assorted fringers at finding offense around every corner.
Huh - I wasn't aware of that.
I went to target.com and saw a Red Cross and a St. Jude Children's Research Hospital donation link, but no Salvation Army. Maybe they rotate?
The first credit card I ever had was for a national Department store. I was late with one payment and they called me at work and were very persistant and rude. Next paycheck I paid them off and stopped shopping there for about 15 years. On occasion I would mail receipts from shopping trips showing them my money they didn't get. Wasn't THAT much money, but I enjoyed pointed out the money they weren't getting from me because of their rudeness.
The retailer had a no-solicitation policy at its stores but previously had made an exception for the Salvation Army. That exception has now gone by the wayside. In a September 2004 statement, Target spokesperson Carolyn Brookter said the chain "determined that if we continue to allow the Salvation Army to solicit, then it opens the door to other groups that wish to solicit our guests."
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/charity/sallyann.asp
So, in other words, they made an exception for SA, and now they've closed it. I don't particularly like it, but I understand the fairness of the decision. And it doesn't seem to be in support of some homosexual agenda, as other posters have alluded to.
I just mail my checks into the Salvation Army, now. They get more from me that way, instead of just getting what I have in my wallet.
It's unfortunate that a perfectly decent retailer is being targeted for a boycott on the basis of an urban legend. The idea they contribute to homosexual causes and won't allow the Salvation Army out front because they oppose gay causes is a complete myth. Target chooses not to allow anyone to solicit in front of their store for a variety of reasons. They don't pick and choose who can and can't, they simply bar everyone. This is certainly a poor reason to boycott them. In fact, I think I will make a point of patronizing Target this Christmas.
I don't shop at Target because it stuffs money into the pocket of that Leftist Democrat traitor, Sen. Mark Dayton (D-MN). His family still owns a controlling interest in Target as part of the Dayton department store chain. He doesn't need my money.
But Christmas IS a pagan holiday, actually many pagan holidays, usurped by early Christians in order to provide inclusion among the many societies it was spreading the Word to. One only need to look to Paul speaking out of both sides of his mouth regarding such matters as dietary laws or circumcision.
The Magi weren't bearing gifts for the son of El-Shaddai, they were bearing gifts for the son of Ahura-Mazda, father of Mithra. Mithra was very popular among the Romans, even though He was first revealed to the Persians.
I went to your store yesterday to buy a Christmas tree, but all I saw was a banner advertising "Holiday trees." I don't know what "Holiday trees" are, so I guess I'll have to look elsewhere.I've had it up to here with this crap.
Jesus was a pagan?
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