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JCP Jabs At Walmart & Target

Walmart and Target are facing petitions and consumer backlash over their decision to open tomorrow.

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Target: We’re Still Neutral On Marriage

Despite the invitation for gay people to use their gift registry, yesterday a Target spokesman declared that the company is “remaining neutral” on the pending anti-gay marriage bill in their home state of Minnesota. “Be yourself, together,” the text of the ad reads. “Build a Target Wedding Gift Registry as unique as the two of you.” Does this mean Target …

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Target Wedding Gift Registry

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Target Sells Out

Literally! (Tipped by JMG reader Rian)

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FRC Launches Campaign Against Target

The Family Research Council today launched a campaign against Target. Because donating money to a gay parenting group is going to rip babies out of the arms of righteous white Christian women. Or something. The Family Equality Council’s clear objective is to pass legislation on the local and national level that would effectively shut down Christian based adoption agencies. We …

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Target Blocks AFA’s Hate Mail

Last month we snickered when the One Million Moms bitched that JC Penney was blocking their emails. And now Target is doing the same. Snork! Via the Christian Post: When Target began selling the pro-gay shirts late May, the American Family Association sent out an alert to supporters, asking them to let Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel “know that a majority …

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AFA Plans Target Boycott

Right on cue, the American Family Association says it is asking its supporters to “shop elsewhere” until Target cancels its selling of gay Pride t-shirts. “We know for a fact that Target is a very gay-friendly company. You may remember a couple of years ago, when Target came under heat from homosexual activists for donating to a pro-family candidate for …

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AFA Rides The Target Waambulance

The American Family Association has issued a crybaby notice that Target is blocking their campaign of anti-gay emails over the Pride t-shirts I mentioned earlier today. Here’s the sample email that’s not going through: Dear Chairman Steinhafel: Thirty-one states have overwhelmingly voted for constitutional amendments to protect marriage as only between one-man, one-woman. And your company does business in all …

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Target Launches Pride T-Shirts

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports: Two years after a brouhaha erupted over its support of a group backing Tom Emmer, the Republican gubernatorial candidate who opposed gay marriage, Target Corp. has launched an online charitable partnership supporting gay pride. The Minneapolis-based discounter says the two aren’t related — it has partnered with the Washington, D.C.-based Family Equality Council, which supports lesbian, …

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Target Staffers – It Gets Better

Reaction to this should be interesting…

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Target: We’re Neutral On Marriage Ban

Target Corporation says they’ll be releasing no official statement on Minnesota’s coming ballot referendum to ban same-sex marriage. “Our position at this particular time is that we are going to be neutral on that particular issue, as we would be on other social issues that have polarizing points of view,” CEO Gregg Steinhafel said. “We’re a retail store, we welcome …

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Target Issues Gay-Positive Message

A little damage control from Target: “Whether we’re gay, straight, or identify any other way…we love whoever it is we love.”(Tipped by JMG reader Donald) RELATED: Target has lost its lawsuit against the gay group it was trying to stop from collecting marriage equality petitions outside its San Diego stores. Judge Barton said Target and its powerful law firm of …

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CALIFORNIA: Target Sues Gay Group

Saying that they are annoying the customers, Target has filed suit against an LGBT group that has been gathering marriage petitions outside its San Diego locations. Target says that the gay group’s activists regularly canvass outside eight San Diego stores and refuse to leave when asked. The retailer says it receives around a dozen complaints every day from shoppers angry …

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Target Responds To Dropped Gaga Deal

“We were very surprised and disappointed by the statements made by Lady Gaga’s organization related to her partnership with Target. Target remains committed to the LGBT community as demonstrated by our contributions to various LGBT organizations, our recently established Policy Committee to review our political giving and our respectful, inclusive workplace environment.” – Target spokesperson.

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Lady Gaga Ends Target Deal

Earlier this month it was reported that Lady Gaga had struck a special promotional deal with Target with the stipulation that the company “start affiliating themselves with LGBT charity groups.” Now it appears that deal has fallen through. Carmen Cacciatore, co-founder of Fly-Life marketing agency, announced this afternoon that the earlier reported deal between Target Corp. and Lady Gaga was …

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Lady Gaga: I Made Target Change Ways

“That discussion was one of the most intense conversations I’ve ever had in a business meeting. Part of my deal with Target is that they have to start affiliating themselves with LGBT charity groups and begin to reform and make amends for the mistakes they’ve made in the past … our relationship is hinged upon their reform in the company …

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Target Rewrites Donations Policy

After suffering through a long year of negative press and calls for boycotts over their sizable donation to an anti-gay group, Target has published new guidelines to corporate giving. The new policies appear to install tighter executive review of proposed donations. The Washington Blade’s Chris Johnson reports: Jessica Carlson, spokesperson for Target, said the change was enacted within the last …

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MINNESOTA: Tom Emmer Concedes Gov Race, Target’s Donation Goes Down Toilet

So much for the huge donation Target made to the campaign of anti-gay bigot Tom Emmer. Via Washington Post: Republican Tom Emmer has conceded the Minnesota governor’s race to former Sen. Mark Dayton (D), bringing a close to the last undecided governor’s race of 2010 and finalizing the playing field for the 2011 nationwide redistricting. “Minnesotans have made their choice, …

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MINNESOTA: Democrat Mark Dayton Leading Douchebag Tom Emmer

Democrat Mark Dayton’s lead over anti-gay douchebag Tom Emmer is widening. Let’s hope Target wasted all that money.

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MINNESOTA: Democrat Mark Dayton Leading Anti-Gay Tom Emmer

Anti-gay Minnesota GOP gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer, the man at the center of the Target controversy and boycott, is trailing Democrat Mark Dayton by five to ten points in most polls. The two are tied in a poll conducted by Minnesota Public Radio.

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