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Recently the American Family Association claimed that its boycott against Home Depot was working.
AFA was boycotting the company because Home Depot has been very supportive of the lgbtq community, even publicly supporting pride events and providing booths for children during those events.
AFA spokesman, Randy Sharp says “We’re seeing some movement. It appears that the Home Depot is pulling back from their support of homosexual activism. Over the course of the last three years, we’ve seen a reduction in the number of gay pride events that they’re sponsoring and participating in. However, we want to be cautious.”
I smelled a rat and apparently so did site Back 2 Stonewall. A reader of that blog contacted Home Depot and received this reply:
We have never changed our commitment to diversity and inclusion of all people, and we have no intention of doing so. Nor have we changed our apron policy or the guidelines for our Foundation?s charitable giving.
Sincerely,
Samantha F. DeVaney
The Home Depot Corporate Office
2455 Paces Ferry Rd.
Atlanta, GA. 30339
1-800-553-3199
So the AFA lied. What else is new? Let this be a lesson for our community. When the news broke, many of us were raising hell and were ready to write ugly letters to Home Depot.
The claims about Home Depot came solely from AFA. And knowing the history of the AFA, I wouldn’t believe the organization if it told me that it was snowing during a blizzard.
When religious groups make claims, let’s verify them before we give them veracity. After all these groups make their money lying about our lives. Of course they are going to lie about other things. When you lie about one thing, lying about other things becomes easy.
Hat tip to Back2Stonewall
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Of course the AFA is telling untruths.
It is inherent in their Christian background.
Thanks Alvin!
If anyone from AFA said the sky was blue, I’d want to duck outside and check on it.
Another bunch of “you can tell that they are lying because their lips are moving” people. Didn’t they read the manual for the religion that they claim to belong to? Lying made the top 10 of “no-nos”.
Didn’t you get the memo, Mena? Because the religious reicht is *so* pious, *so* self-righteous, and their morality *so* far above everyone else’s that they believe they don’t have to follow all of those niggling little thing called “Commandments”, let alone all the rest of those things Jesus said to do.
You know… turn the other cheek, treat other people like you want to be treated in return, help the needy, the poor, the hungry, the homeless and the naked?
Well, I an glad as to how it ends—because in the states, Home Depot is ike, “The Lesbian’s Best Friend” …Suzanne Westenhoffer even did a comedy routine based on going to Home Depot–
Has anyone considered that the AFA is merely rumour mongering to get Lesbians to boycott HD?
and to Marlene===do you mean that they might have lied about that whole “rising from the dead on the third day” thing?