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Target offers same-sex wedding registries; vows political neutrality
pioneer press ^ | 7-28-12 | tom webb

Posted on 07/28/2012 6:22:55 AM PDT by TurboZamboni

When gay couples are ready to get married, Target is happy to help them celebrate.

The Minneapolis-based discount chain is running an ad featuring two grooms as an invitation to other gay and lesbian couples to set up their wedding registries at Target.

"Be yourself, together," the text of the ad reads. "Build a Target Wedding Gift Registry as unique as the two of you."

Does this mean Target Corp. is ready to make a commitment, too? Is Minnesota's most prominent corporation taking a public stand supporting gay marriage -- and opposing the Minnesota marriage amendment, which is coming to a vote in November?

(Excerpt) Read more at twincities.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: gay; homosexualagenda; marriage; mn; retail; target
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To: TurboZamboni

Don’t buy any fudge there.


21 posted on 07/28/2012 7:51:05 AM PDT by Quickgun (Second Amendment. The only one you can put your hands on.)
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To: TurboZamboni

Shouldn’t their wedding guests be donating their “gifts” to the Obama campaign?


22 posted on 07/28/2012 8:02:22 AM PDT by ODC-GIRL (We live in interesting times)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

If they can make enough money off gays to stay in business , why should anyone complain?

If gay business is what they want that is what they should get. Straights can shop elsewhere.


23 posted on 07/28/2012 8:06:19 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: ClearCase_guy

The problem is, that 2% has the backing of a bunch of liberals and PC nitwits, that’s how it came to this point.


24 posted on 07/28/2012 8:22:53 AM PDT by scottjewell
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

I am a capitalist—I believe in the capitalist system and I give applause to any business that works to keep up their sales! I give Kudos to Target! i do not agree with Gay marriage—but I do agree with making money!


And we all know how profitable and popular social Marxism is! This is not a decision about profit. This is a limo-liberal CEO trying to impose his lack of values - his anti-moral ignorance - on consumers. These people are going the way of the limo-liberal media. Their globalist/elitist agenda is more imporatant than profit for their corporations. Their lack of character does not stop at sodomy. They are liars and shake down artists.


25 posted on 07/28/2012 8:36:20 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: TurboZamboni

Never did like Target so now it’s on my ever growing list of banned stores.


26 posted on 07/28/2012 8:37:56 AM PDT by bgill
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To: TurboZamboni

I guess they’re thinking this will bring about a significant increase in the sale of vaseline.


27 posted on 07/28/2012 8:41:59 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: TurboZamboni

Target’s run by a bunch of Minnesota liberals, mostly Feminazis. They used to be huge corporate supporters of Planned Deadbabyhood, but some pro-lifers bought enough stock to introduce a shareholder resolution challenging the practice, so the libs folded. Maybe that will have to happen again.


28 posted on 07/28/2012 8:55:15 AM PDT by Campion ("Social justice" begins in the womb)
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To: TurboZamboni
No one in my family shops at Target because of their anti-Christian stance. We stopped when they refused to help the needy by banning the Salvation Army from their storefronts during Christmas.
29 posted on 07/28/2012 9:25:32 AM PDT by Gabrial (The nightmare will continue as long as the nightmare is in the White House)
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To: Venturer
Straights can shop elsewhere.

"Elsewhere" these days is pretty much limited to Chick-fil-A.

30 posted on 07/28/2012 9:43:53 AM PDT by Drew68 (I WILL vote to defeat Barack Hussein Obama!)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

You cannot serve both God and mammon. Judas made money too.


31 posted on 07/28/2012 10:04:20 AM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy Saints surrounded.)
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To: CityCenter

“I think it’s amusing that “detestable” big businesses are turning liberal causes into marketing schemes. “

You have it backwards. As noted by others, this is bad marketing, they are now marketing for something that is doesnt exist in 43 states, they gain a tiny market maybe but put off many others ... but its effective in moving our culture, normalizing the previously unthinkable.

This is hijacking marketing for liberal causes.


32 posted on 07/28/2012 10:12:46 AM PDT by WOSG (REPEAL AND REPLACE OBAMA. He stole AmericaÂ’s promise!)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade
"I give Kudos to Target!"

Probably not the dumbest post of the day, but I'll bet you make the top 10. :)

33 posted on 07/28/2012 10:15:04 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: SaraJohnson

” we all know how profitable and popular social Marxism is! “

Indeed. Lenin’s remark holds.

Shopper: “I am looking for enough rope for the capitalists to hang themselves with?”
Clerk: “That’s in Aisle 11, right next to the Petards you can hoist yourself on.”


34 posted on 07/28/2012 10:21:38 AM PDT by WOSG (REPEAL AND REPLACE OBAMA. He stole AmericaÂ’s promise!)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

I submit that all the people that were incinerated in Sodom and Gommorah weren’t actual Sodomites. There were most likely a fair number of “Capitalists” who supported the practitioners for profit or out of convenience.


35 posted on 07/28/2012 11:06:55 AM PDT by Aleya2Fairlie
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To: TurboZamboni

What stores can we go to that will like CONSERVATIVES???


36 posted on 07/28/2012 12:26:46 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (Yes, Obama, I had help with my business. MY CUSTOMERS!!)
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To: ExCTCitizen

The Salvation Army.


37 posted on 07/28/2012 12:29:26 PM PDT by Heart of Georgia (Boston's mayor is anti-Christian and anti-free speech.)
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To: Drew68

Maybe it’s time they expand their clothing line:

http://shopchick-fil-a.com/default.aspx?act=catalog.aspx&Category=Clothing&SubCategory=Women&browse=&MenuGroup=Home


38 posted on 07/28/2012 12:36:52 PM PDT by Heart of Georgia (Boston's mayor is anti-Christian and anti-free speech.)
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To: TurboZamboni

“Target...vows political neutrality”

Were they stopping them from registering their pretend weddings there before this? NO! So the fact is that what Target is doing is anything but politically neutral.


39 posted on 07/28/2012 12:44:31 PM PDT by Heart of Georgia (Boston's mayor is anti-Christian and anti-free speech.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
People with MBAs sure are stupid.

Without doubt, they have definite weak points. As members of an elite, particularly MBA holders from the top-flight schools, they're prone to overestimate the influence of a small minority that's hyped all over the place. They themselves are a small, albeit exclusive, minority. Camille Paglia noted that male homosexuals are aristocratic at heart. What better group o' guys to tickle the vanity of a top-drawer MBA holder?

The guys seem to be forgetting an old truth: "If you want to live in Manhattan, you sell to the Bronx. If you want to live in the Bronx, you sell to Manhattan."

40 posted on 07/28/2012 1:26:16 PM PDT by danielmryan
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