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WilliamPitt

(58,179 posts)
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 02:54 PM Nov 2012

The Salvation Army, LGBT rights, and a little something you can do

Well, the time is upon us again...Christmas sales, Christmas lights, Christmas music, Christmas shopping, and hordes of Salvation Army Santas fanned out with their (ceaseless, insipid) bell-ringing and buckets for collecting donations.

I'm not going to argue that the Salvation Army does not do good works - they do - but those works come at a heavy anti-gay rights price that Americans, in the 21st fa-chrissakes century, should not have to pay any more.

A little background if you're not up on the Army's rotten history with LGBT Americans: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2011/12/01/9143097-gay-groups-boycott-salvation-army-red-kettle-drive?lite

Several years ago, some inspired activists came up with a clever way to bring the point home to the Army that their anti-American anti-rights activities belong to the past. Rather than simply boycot the Salvation Army's Christmas-time collection drive, they printed up scads of flyers crafted to look like dollar bills. They handed those bills out to people who object to the Army's anti-LGBT activities, and those people dropped the flyers into the collection buckets as they went about their business.

An example of one such:



It's not just a boycott. It's a boycott with a message that every Salvation Army donation center will have to sift through as they count their collected coin.

I'm going to print a bunch out and carry them with me. Might be you can do the same.

T'is the season, after all.

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The Salvation Army, LGBT rights, and a little something you can do (Original Post) WilliamPitt Nov 2012 OP
I do not give to the Salvation Army, because they are bigots. hrmjustin Nov 2012 #1
Give them one of those bills WilliamPitt Nov 2012 #2
Thats not the only reason I won't donate to them Drale Nov 2012 #3
Wonderful. donheld Nov 2012 #4
I am SO doing this! beac Nov 2012 #5
it's great fun. you can even give them 2 or 3 at a time and act like a smug "big spender" Mothdust Nov 2012 #6
I think I'll do one for the Boy Scouts. GoneOffShore Nov 2012 #7
Up WilliamPitt Nov 2012 #8

Drale

(7,932 posts)
3. Thats not the only reason I won't donate to them
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 03:24 PM
Nov 2012

My girlfriend and her Mom are struggling right now and they were looking for some help with rent for 1 month. The Salvation Army won't give them money but they will help them beg money from their friends and family by making them collection "donations". If they are not helping people with cash donation that they collect all the time what the fuck are they doing with that money?

beac

(9,992 posts)
5. I am SO doing this!
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 03:40 PM
Nov 2012

It takes all my resolve not to say somethig nasty to those bellringers. I know they are the lowest rung on the SA ladder, but it still...

So, in past years, I have had to walk away in impotent fury.

NOW I have something I can do about it.

Thank you for this!

Mothdust

(133 posts)
6. it's great fun. you can even give them 2 or 3 at a time and act like a smug "big spender"
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 03:41 PM
Nov 2012

Like Republicans who enjoy feeling superior to others while throwing crumbs to the needy for Jesus.

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