The American Family Association (AFA) and Concerned
Women for America (CWA) have allied in its national boycott of Target stores.
CWA announced its participation in North
Carolina, on the steps of the state capitol in Raleigh – the state that made
headlines for a law requiring men and women to use the restroom according to
the gender on their birth certificate. The
conservative organization chose North Carolina because this law overturned an
ordinance in Charlotte allowing transgender people to use the bathroom of their
choice.
North Carolina has since become a villain to
homosexual activists and Target announced April 19 that it was restating its
gender-neutral bathroom policy after the bathroom law made headlines.
CWA President Penny Nance says Target’s
policy is “irresponsible and perhaps dangerous for women and children.” That concern mirrors the concerns of AFA,
which announced the boycott on April 21.
“Target’s policy is exactly how sexual predators get access to their
victims,” said AFA President Tim Wildmon in a commentary announcing the boycott
and petition drive.
Citing figures from the Department of
Justice, Nance says that 33% of reported rapes take place in public places,
including public restrooms. Nance shares
that she is the victim of an attempted rape and that is a reason she’s pushing
for “common sense” protections for women and children. “We have great concerns that sexual predators
will use these policies to their advantage to harm innocent women and children,”
she warns.
After announcing the AFA boycott, more than
1-million have signed the on-line petition.
The AFA ‘Action Alert’ also included two stories of men who have been
arrested at Target stores. One man was
allegedly filming women with his camera phone in the dressing rooms at a
Brentwood, Missouri store; the second man allegedly exposed himself to a
9-year-old boy in Cedar Park, Texas.
Nance adds that CWA is not joining the
boycott out of “fear” of transgendered people.
“We, in fact, have great compassion for them,” she tells OneNewsNow. Wildmon has also stated that AFA’s concern is
not over transgendered people, but for men who could use the liberal restroom
policy to harm women or children.
If you care about the safety of women and
children, then sign the petition and cease to shop at Target until they come to
their senses and reverse this policy … or go to the expense of establishing ‘unisex’
bathrooms apart from the male and female facilities. The point of this policy ought to be the
corporation’s expense, not the customer!
Rev. Dr.
Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor,
Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
It's been reported that Target stock has plummeted 2.5 BILLION since their announcement. We have not been Target customers since their decision to ban the Salvation Army at Christmas.
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