ReaganBook Founder Calls For Boycott Of Target Over Gay Marriage

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM

ByAHA GARCIA Published AUGUST 11, 2014, 2:11 PM EDT

Janet Porter, of ReaganBook fame, announced on Monday that she will be boycotting Target because the retail store has taken "aim at natural marriage."

Porter made her announcement in response to Target's support of marriage equality during her daily radio commentary, which runs on her "Faith2Action" website.

Porter said Target was "using your hard-earned shopping dollars to stand for counterfeit marriage."

"Target added their name to a legal defense brief to redefine marriage and undermine the voters in Wisconsin and Indiana who protected marriage between one man and one woman," she said.

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Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/janet-porter-target-boycott-marriage-equality

[merrily]

1. IMO, it's critical that stores taking a stand that we like hear from us.

Unlike some other corporations, Target's website does not contain contact info for general comments on corporate policy, but you might be able to use this phone number:

1 800 591-3869

Target's contact web page:

http://www.target.com/HelpContent?help=/sites/html/TargetOnline/help/contact_us/contact_us.html


The LGBT story as Target links it on its own website:

https://corporate.target.com/discover/article/Target-diversity-business-council-leader-talks-mar

[uppityperson]

2. wtf is wrong with people? I did not procreate with my husband, guess we are unnatural also.

blah blah blah you bigotted woman.

[LynneSin]

3. And how many dozens of customers will be lost over this one?

I suspect the books published from ReaganBooks probably do not end up being sold at Target anyways.

[DonViejo]

4. This reminds me of when the Southern Baptist Convention...

announced their boycott of Disney over that corporations recognition of Domestic Partner benefits, and Ellen, which was launched in 1997

The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) and the American Family Association voted to boycott Disney over opposition to the Disney offering domestic partnership benefits to gay employees and over opposition to the ABC show Ellen, in which the host, Ellen DeGeneres, came out as a lesbian; Both boycotts were withdrawn in 2005.[5][6

]

[Jack Rabbit]

5. Natural marriage?

I would think that's what's usually derided by people like Ms. Porter as "living in sin."

Organized religion, i.e., the church, the priesthood and doctrine prescribing to civilized human beings what to believe and how to behave, is what is not natural. Natural religion is an individual human being communing with the universe in his own way. Natural marriage is a committed relationship in which the children of the next generation is procreated and raised to survive in the environment in which they shall live.

[love_katz]

16. Excellent post.

I love your posts! Always a treat to read.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^This, plus a gazillion (what Jack Rabbit said).

[SoapBox]

6. I've got a Target about 2 minutes away...

Time to go shopping!

p.s...another Hater that tells the world that they are truly, an idiot.

[christx30]

7. Target stands to lost over

$50 due to this boycott.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. Do they know their beloved Walmart covers benefits for same-sex couples?

[DonViejo]

9. Probably not but, WalMart sells Duck Dynasty crap, so it gets forgiven. eom

[24601]

11. Oh, that changes everything. Let everyone know that Wal-Mart is now on the official DU preferred

store register.

It sure is hard to be a one-issue voter/activist.

[Hosnon]

10. The most frustrating thing about these boycotts is how Republicans either

support the tactic or don't depending on the issue.

If they don't support a particular boycott, it's a "free speech issue" (despite the government never being involved) and "people shouldn't be punished for their views". If they support one, it's a free market issue.

[tanyev]

12. That will only improve the shopping experience at Target.

[Skittles]

13. fuck off, Janet

[love_katz]

17. Agreed...

and seconded.

[PatrynXX]

14. thats alright. been mostly boycotting them because they are

a Republican anti workers rights company

[Iron Man]

15. Sounds like my next Target visit will be pleasurable.

[mnhtnbb]

18. I will very happily go with my (gay) son to shop at Target on Thursday

for stuff to take with him when he moves to New Haven for grad school at Yale.

[47of74]

19. Fuck them.

[Bartlet]

20. Who really gives a crap

what the useless hole Porter does or thinks? Target will do just fine without her patronage.