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As I've reported here for months, Walmart is engaged in a pitched battle with unions and city leaders in their attempt to bring an outlet to New York City. Today the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force came out against the retail giant.
“With the expansion of Wal-Mart stores comes the expansion of antiquated employment policies,” the Task Force said in a statement, “that provide little to no protections for, and at times even hostility toward, their LGBT employees.” The Task Force criticized Wal-Mart for denying employee benefits to same sex-partners and for failing to prohibit discrimination based on gender identify. By comparison, the group said two other chain stores with a strong presence in New York, Costco and Walgreens, did much better. “It may be a local debate for New York City, but Wal-Mart is a largest private employer in country,” said Rea Carey, the executive director of the Task Force. “To have Wal-Mart as a substantial employer there, and an employer that lacks these basic protections, then a lot of people who need work, who seek work, simply won’t feel comfortable.”Walmart contends that it does treat its gay staffers fairly and points to the existence of its long-running LGBT employees group.
Yesterday Porno Pete LaBarbera posted the above boycott letter sent to the management group of Chili's Restaurants because of a donation the company made to support the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force's annual Creating Change conference. LaBarbera is especially angry because his "undercover spies" reported that the conference featured (GASP!) unisex restrooms. Outrageous!
Lots of companies, of course, donate to the Task Force, but Porno Pete's boycott against Chili's is actually meant as a response to the "hateful anti-Christian" boycott of Chick-Fil-A. But let's use his link anyway and thank Chili's for supporting the civil equality of all Americans.
Thank Chili's for supporting equality.
SPLC-certified hate kingpin Porno Pete LaBarbera has decided to fire back at the "silly" boycott of Chick-Fil-A by launching his own boycott of Chili's. From the American Family Association's OneNewsNow site:
LaBarbera, founder of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, argues that Chick-fil-A is a fine Christian company and suggests that a boycott of the company is absurd. But he points out that another popular restaurant — Chili’s — supports the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, which he says promotes polyamory, the practice of having more than one open romantic relationship at a time. “[That group] holds an annual ‘Creating Change’ seminar with some of the most deviant workshops you’ve ever seen,” says LaBarbera. “They promote so-called ’sexual freedom,’ which basically wants to do away with all sex-oriented laws in the United States such as limiting adult industries near neighborhoods.” According to the family advocate, NGLTF is a left-wing organization — and Chili’s supports it. “And so we’re calling on people to stop going to Chili’s because it supports this radical, leftist, deviant agenda promoted by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force,” he remarks.Chick-Fil-A is actively working to deprive Americans of their civil rights. But since Chili's apparently made a donation to a civil rights group, it is they who must be boycotted. Got that? Yeah, this boycott will totally be as effective as the AFA's boycott of Ford and Disney. Heh.
RELATED: Porno Pete has been tweeting that he sent "undercover spies" to the NGLTF's annual Creating Change conference last week in Minneapolis. We presume his spies thoroughly enjoyed the Senator Larry Craig Memorial GOP Men's Room.
