I like to drop a notecard in the donation bucket that says "I will gladly donate money when the Salvation Army stops discriminating against the LGBT community. Happy Holidays!".
My company is doing a donation drive for the SA. I sent out an email after they solicited donations that perhaps they should pick a charity next year that doesn't actively lobby and discriminate against the company's LGBT employees. The next day the office was plastered with SA posters.
Vomit. And Christians wonder why people hate them.
I need to start spreading that factoid to my family members. There's inevitably a SA Santa outside most of the larger stores back home where my mother lives, and while she is very kind and accepting, she is a bit clueless. Knowing that the dollars she stuffs into those red buckets go towards discriminating against several of her friends might be enough to get her to stop.
SA is primarily an evangelical organization. Every act is part of their effort to convert people.
Feeding people is great. Feeding people just so they'll listen to your bullshit is less great. It's fine if you're family, sleazy if you're a timeshare, and creepy if you're a church.
I'm proud to say that my company's matching charitable contributions program explicitly rejects making matching donations to the Salvation Army. My understanding is that it's more for proselytizing reasons than discriminatory reasons, but it still pleases me.
I know here in Toronto there's some diversity amongst the SA ministries in terms of how they treat GLBT people. While some are awful, there's another that's one of the safest places for homeless trans men to sleep. So, I won't ever put money into the buckets, but I donate directly to that one shelter.
Vomit. And Christians wonder why people hate them.
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Feeding people is great. Feeding people just so they'll listen to your bullshit is less great. It's fine if you're family, sleazy if you're a timeshare, and creepy if you're a church.