s/o Boy Scouts- Anti-Gay Companies

[wildorchid363]

It makes me sad when companies whose products I love are on lists that make me all ragey inside

voices.yahoo.com/companies-anti-gay-policies-10988406.html?cat=3

Celestial Seasonings and Urban Outfitters are the two I really struggle with

[motzie]

Urban?!? Damn.

[wildorchid363]

Jul 18, 2012 17:06:30 GMT -5 motzie said:

Urban?!? Damn.

I know :-(

Part of me died when I saw that

[pedanticwench]

How is it possible that Urban Oufitters is on this list? HOW?

[Jermys]

Their CEO is an asshole.

[eb777888]

I don't get how anyone is anti-gay anymore. Don't.Get.It.

[scotty]

I'd like to see how they're anti-gay. Like what they do.

[wildorchid363]

Jul 18, 2012 17:12:10 GMT -5 scotty said:

I'd like to see how they're anti-gay. Like what they do.

This is the best article I could find about this ( I searched because I was really curious too)

www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/arts-post/post/urban-outfitters-all-its-recent-controversies-explained/2012/03/29/gIQAP2lDjS_blog.html

ETA- guess they are assholes to lots of people

[hubes]

I agree with scotty. I'm really upset that some of those companies are on the list (John Deere?) but how do they get that designation? Yahoo's shoddy reporting?

[gretchenindisguise]

Can someone tell me about Celestial Seasonings? This makes me very sad indeed.

I tried google but didn't come up with anything fruitful.

[motzie]

Ugh, and therefore, Anthro. Sigh.

[scotty]

Urban Outfitters employs and clothes a good amount of gay folks, from what I've observed. That is surprising.

[Jermys]

Jul 18, 2012 17:12:10 GMT -5 scotty said:

I'd like to see how they're anti-gay. Like what they do.

They donate money to organizations or candidates that lobby or votr for anti-gay legislation (like Prop 8).

[pantsparty]

I'm sad about Celestial Seasonings if that's true! I love Tension Tamer tea.

I read an article today about Chick-fil-A and it made me sad because their food is good. But I can't eat there.

[Jermys]

And by they, I mean their CEO/son of their founder. The CEO of Anthro was an openly gay man who is in a 30 year relationship. When it came out that the CEO/son of the founder was donating to anti-gay causes, he resigned in disgust.

[Jalapeñomel]

For me, I boycott Chik-fil-A because of their support of Focus on the Family, and now there is even more reason to boycott them. I'm sad to see these others on the list, because I just cannot get behind companies who are bigoted.

[underwaterrhymes]

I'm most bothered by Salvation Army. It's sad that an organization that does so much good for one group of people has so much hatred for another.

[dragonfly08]

Jul 18, 2012 17:18:03 GMT -5 pantsparty said:

I read an article today about Chick-fil-A and it made me sad because their food is good. But I can't eat there.

My kids are going to be *very* ticked off, but I just read this article and don't think I'll be taking them back there. They love it, and it's the only "fast food" they get, so our lunch options just got pretty limited. Guess I'll be packing a lot more often, now!

[Jermys]

Jul 18, 2012 17:34:57 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

I'm most bothered by Salvation Army. It's sad that an organization that does so much good for one group of people has so much hatred for another.

It really pisses me off that they try to deny it and then one of their senior officers says that gays should be killed.

[karmasabiotch]

I'm going to run out of places to shop and products I can buy between testing on animals and the exclusion of oppressed populations.

Very few places seem to be left.

[scotty]

Jul 18, 2012 19:23:58 GMT -5 karmasabiotch said:

I'm going to run out of places to shop and products I can buy between testing on animals and the exclusion of oppressed populations.

Very few places seem to be left.

There's a good amount left, just not the mainstream stuff.

[karmasabiotch]

I'm willing to do the research to support those businesses.

[BlackCanary]

Jul 18, 2012 17:07:41 GMT -5 pedanticwench said:

How is it possible that Urban Oufitters is on this list? HOW?

That surprises me as well. I was surprised with Domino's, Keebler and Kellogg.

Some really didn't. John Deere, Sam's Club and Walmart.

Though with Walmart, it just gives me another reason for not shopping there.

[hubes]

Okay. The "I'm not surprised John Deere hates gays" is annoying. They are a huge innovative company. Most of the people who work there have always lived in big cities, its not like its run by a bunch of hay seeds. Also, I think that it is really crappy that its Okay to stereotype farmers or "country folk" or whatever. It's not Okay to stereotype anyone.

[hannamaren]

I tried to find what ToysRUs did and all I could find was Million Moms were boycotting because TRU was selling a comic with 2 guys getting married.
Same with Kelloggs. I found an article that Kelloggs told a Catholic League to "snap, crackle, pop off" on behalf of John Stewart but the whole article was blocked.boo

[BlackCanary]

Jul 18, 2012 20:35:47 GMT -5 hannamaren said:

I tried to find what ToysRUs did and all I could find was Million Moms were boycotting because TRU was selling a comic with 2 guys getting married.

The comic was Astonishing X-Men #50 from Marvel. And then MM were getting people to also boycott DC for revealing that the first Green Lantern is gay.

They wanted people to send letters to both DC and Marvel to get them to not print or sell the comic. Yeah...because that's going to work... I picked up the X-Men comic. ;D

[candyapple]

Yay, safe except for ToysRUs and Radio Shack. Easily corrected.