Longtime bell-ringer outside Nordstrom loses his perch as Salvation Army wrestles with image

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1. This is very unfortunate.

And we've had this discussion recently on DU. I provided my perspective (as an editor) from reading 12,000 letters from prisoners in America to me who often told how SA had provided housing assistance, health care referrals, food, clothing, job training, and other services to them and their families when they had nothing else. SA does not ask questions of anyone needing help regarding sexual orientation or any other matter.

If the organization was not previously overtly working to discourage any discrimination by its employees, it is now. We should encourage that transformation, because the need of needy people is sooooooooooo great.