Target Selling T-Shirts To Benefit Minnesota Marriage Equality

I'm still boycotting Target. I don't forgive easily.

Besides, I'd rather support J. C. Penney, whose advertisements run in Dallas-Fort Worth market, and are therefore making a difference in my own community.

We just shopped at Penney's today. I thought about getting some of those t's. It's terrific that they're forwarding 100% of sales to FEC. But I decided I'd be better off sending the money directly to FEC instead of cluttering my closet with more tees.

JMichael in Fort Worth wrote:

I'm still boycotting Target. I don't forgive easily.
Besides, I'd rather support J. C. Penney, whose advertisements run in Dallas-Fort Worth market, and are therefore making a difference in my own community.

You need to purchase a shirt from Target immediately
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If you don't; *Horror of all Horrors*; the evangelicals will think you're one of *them* because *they're* the ones boycotting Target these days

Lezgetreal needs to invest in an editor

Honest AbeL wrote:

Lezgetreal needs to invest in an editor

If you're fair and balanced; that would be a good job for you

Honest AbeL wrote:

Lezgetreal needs to invest in an editor

You're lying filth.

Rainbow Kid wrote:

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You need to purchase a shirt from Target immediately
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If you don't; *Horror of all Horrors*; the evangelicals will think you're one of *them* because *they're* the ones boycotting Target these days

Actually, I'm still boycotting all Dayton-Hudson stores (Target's parent company). And I'm totally fine with Target getting boycotted by both sides of this issue.

When the headlines first broke, TWO YEARS AGO, Target Corp. had plenty of time and opportunity to address my/our concerns and make a public amends by donating an equal amount ($150,000) to a GLBTQ candidate or organization. But they didn't. Selling a T-shirt and then donating the profits at this late date simply doesn't cut it with me.

If you'll remember, Best Buy was in the headlines at about the same time for making a $100,000 donation to the same organization that Target did, MN Forward. I haven't spent a penny there, either, and I hope that in my own small way, I have contributed to their current financial crisis, which is leading them to shut down stores and retool their entire operation in a desperate gamble to stay afloat.

I don't kid myself: in the last two years, I would have spent only about $5,000 at Target, and perhaps $10,000 at Best Buy. Those numbers aren't really meaningful, and when you calculate the actual loss in net profits to those companies, the figure is miniscule. But I feel better knowing that the dollars I would have spent there went instead to companies like Home Depot, Amazon, and other LGBTQ supportive companies.

Tomorrow Exxon-Mobile will meet in Dallas to discuss restoring the same sex partner benefits that took away when the companies merged over a decade ago. I haven't bought a nickel's worth of gas from them in all these years, and tomorrow's vote won't affect me one way or the other. I'll remain loyal to the companies who have done the right thing by me/us all the way along.