So what's so bad about The Salvation Army anyway?

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68. The entire premise of your argument is based on a logical fallacy.

For what you are doing to make sense (and we're talking about financial support of a discriminatory institution because that institution also aids the poor), the SA would have to be the only game in town in terms of helping the poor. But they clearly and obviously are not. Hence the logical fallacy (false dichotomy in this case). This isn't a choice between not helping the poor or helping the poor but also discrimination. It's a choice between helping discriminatory and non-discriminatory organizations that both help the poor.

If you honestly cared about the discriminatory nature of the SA, yet wanted to find a means of helping the poor, it would not take much effort to do so. You want to help the poor, and that is a respectable goal, but you can do so without simultaneously and knowingly aiding the efforts of a discriminatory organization.

What you do with your own money is your right, but don't be stunned when some who care about the issue of discrimination and are working to combat it call you out for the choices you decide to make and then vocalize.