Georgia churches call for Home Depot boycott over voting rights stance

[hookaleft]

Georgia religious leaders on Tuesday called for a boycott of Home Depot over the company’s refusal to speak out against a new law restricting voting access in the state.

The move from officials, representing more than 1,000 churches in Georgia, underscores how activists continue to target companies in Georgia to use their considerable political influence to protect the right to vote. Georgia-based Coca-Cola, another boycott target, as well as Delta Air Lines came out forcefully against the restrictions, though only after they were signed into law.

The faith leaders said in a statement they were targeting Home Depot after representatives from the company declined to attend a summit of corporate and church officials recently. Home Depot has declined to specifically oppose the Georgia law and even went out of its way, when the law was pending in the legislature, to tell the Washington Post it did not oppose the measure.

“We don’t think we ought to let their indifference stand,” Bishop Reginald Jackson, presiding prelate of the sixth district of the AME church, which includes more than 500 Black churches in Georgia, said at a press conference outside a Home Depot in Decatur on Tuesday.


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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/21/georgia-churches-home-depot-boycott-voting-rights

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. The CEO of Home Depot is a HUGE Republican donor.

I do not shop there.

[kysrsoze]

5. The founder, Langone, left the company almost two decades ago.

[PortTack]

6. All the same Home Depot was missing from the NYT list of corps that oppose voter suppression laws

[CatWoman]

11. neither do I

once I found out what a huge boot licker the CEO is

[Under The Radar]

3. Is choosing not to protest deserving of a boycott?!

I think that we have to respect the right not to protest as much as we do the right to do so. A company would certainly be worthy of a boycott for supporting the racist bill, but Home Depot hasn’t. The founding father of the company is a strong Trump supporter and we can probably guess his personal position on the issue, but the company has chosen no position at all. We should respect that.

[PortTack]

7. See post #6 silence is more than not choosing sides

[Under The Radar]

9. Is it? How is remaining neutral worse than choosing sides?

I am not endorsing Home Depot, I don’t care for their CEO and because they have ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) which controls conservative state legislatures. But a silent position is a neutral position, isnt it?
However, I do not like tattoos, I discouraged my children from getting them, but I don’t disassociate myself with those who like them or have them. ( unless they are showing an offensive image ) I do not think less of them and I respect their opinion as much as I hope that they respect mine.

[PortTack]

12. Yes their silence is a clear statement...more loudly and clearly than shooting from the roof top

[Mary in S. Carolina]

4. I boycotted them

years ago when I found out they were huge MAGAts. As a side bar, Lowes has much better customer service and better prices.

[SheltieLover]

8. Same here

Sadly, at times I have no choice, but I always try Lowes first!

[gratuitous]

10. Uh oh, churches getting into politics

That really upsets some people.