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Tell me that Target isn't Homophobic. I read their responses and it screams Homophobia.....
So much of their sponsorships of the Minneapolis Pride events.
PLEASE DON'T SHOP AT TARGET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Target Denied Preliminary Ban on Equality Group Collecting Signatures Outside Stores
posted by: Steve Williams

Embattled corporation Target, that also saw its partnership with music star and LGBT-rights advocate Lady Gaga dissolve this week, was dealt another blow Tuesday when a San Diego judge refused Target's attorneys a motion to prevent grassroots marriage equality campaigners from gathering petition signatures outside stores in California while Target's legal case against them is heard.

Target has faced heavy criticism from LGBT rights groups after it was revealed last year that the discount store giant had donated funds to MN Forward, a group that directly supported anti-gay candidate Tom Emmer in his failed 2010 run for governor of Minnesota.

In what is being billed as a David and Goliath legal case, Target is taking on Canvas for a Cause, a small grassroots effort dedicated to supporting marriage equality, because it says that petitioners are damaging business and violating the company's no-solicitation policy.

From San Diego Gay & Lesbian News:


Judge Jeffrey B. Barton declared that the right of free speech trumps over the business interests of Target, and refused the corporation's request to temporarily remove the activist group from outside Target stores in California pending trial.

The judge set a trial date for March 25.

Court documents filed by the Minnesota-based Target Corp. show that its agents are particularly unhappy that the San Diego-based Canvass For A Cause (CFAC) volunteers are seeking petition signatures in support of gay marriage.
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Even if you don't agree with a woman's right to choose, you have to be against doctors lying to them......

Indiana Plans To Lie To Women Seeking Abortions
posted by: Robin Marty

When it comes to abortion, legislators seem to believe it is the one medical procedure where their personal opinion matters more than the decisions that a woman and her doctor think is best for her situation.

Now, in Indiana, politicians believe they should get to legislate to have doctors lie to women, too.

Via Huffington Post:


[O]ne of the most controversial portions of the [Indian abortion] bill is the part that would require doctors to inform women about the risks of abortion, including "the possibility of increased risk of breast cancer following an induced abortion and the natural protective effect of a completed pregnancy in avoiding breast cancer."

Indiana wouldn't be the first state to promote this theory. According to the Guttmacher Institute, five states -- Alaska, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas and West Virginia -- currently include mentions of a link between abortion and breast cancer in written counseling materials.

In 1999, Nevada Republican Sharron Angle -- who was then in the state Assembly and recently lost the U.S. Senate race against Harry Reid -- proposed a similar measure requiring doctors to make the abortion-breast cancer link.

The American Cancer Society (ACS) and other major health organizations, however, have rejected this theory. In February 2003, the U.S. National Cancer Institute brought together "more than 100 of the world's leading experts who study pregnancy and breast cancer risk." They found that neither induced nor spontaneous abortions lead to an increase in breast cancer risk. In fact, the risk is actually increased for a short period after a woman carries a pregnancy to full term (i.e., gives birth to a child). According to ACS, these findings were considered "well established," which is the highest level for scientific evidence.
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