As always, for any slow people out there, we are not encouraging people not to help the needy. We are encouraging people to give their money to a more worthy organization than this group of prudish fundamentalists. You already knew that they are quite willing to screw the poor if it involves being nice to gay people in any way, shape or form. Now we find out that they throw brand new, donated toys in the trash when they conflict with their inane “beliefs”:
The Salvation Army says it refuses to distribute Harry Potter and Twilight toys collected for needy children because they’re incompatible with the charity’s Christian beliefs.
The policy has alarmed a Calgarian who volunteered to sift through a southeast warehouse full of unused, donated items and was alarmed when he was told by Salvation Army officials that the two kinds of toys are “disposed of” and not given to other charities.
“I asked if these toys went to another charitable organizations but was told no, that by passing these toys on to another agency for distribution would be supporting these toys,” said the man, who wouldn’t give his name due to his occupation.
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“I was told to withhold a six-inch Harry Potter figure, but when I picked up a plastic M-16, I was told, ‘That’s for the 10-year-olds,’” he said.
“I was shocked…war-themed toys and toys from TV shows and movies with far more violence than Harry Potter and these were considered appropriate toys?”
The Sally Ann refuses to distribute the Twilight and Harry Potter toys because of their wizardry, vampire and werewolf content, said Capt. Pam Goodyear.
Un-frickin-believable.
PZ Myers adds: “I feel so dumb for having ever given that organization anything. I should have been clued in by the frickin’ name that it was run by a gang of puffed-up sanctimonious looneys.”
It’s sort of like the word “family.” When an organization uses that word in their name, nine out of ten times it’s a hate group which works only for the health of a certain, narrowly-defined concept of “family,” while actively seeking to hurt other families.
Thank you for letting us know this. Because of their treatment of LGBT people, and because they proselytize before people can actually get some help, I already refuse to donate. This is disgusting, though. I suggest more direct means of giving food and toys to families who can use them, far less choosy and more helpful secular organizations such as Second Harvest and Toys for Tots. There are also many locally based organizations who would love to take a donated Twilight toy and give it to a young girl who would be delighted by it.
Saw in USA Today that their donations are down 20% this year. I’m glad.
I had my own personal experience with Salvation Army several years ago: Does anyone remember when one of their regional divisions announced that they would provide benefits to gay employees? So, for the first time ever, I sent a donation to them (sent, as in mail – I would never hand money to a guy with a pot) Shortly thereafter the national organization forced the rogue division to rescind the proposed policy change. So, I demanded my money back. The did return it.
We still give them household goods and clothing, but only because it is better than sending the stuff to a landfill.
i have for years refused to donate to any group like “Sally Ann”, as you called it, who in distribution of their services has a requirement that anyone receiving their help has to 1st participate or acknowledge their beliefs, especially christian organizations whose ‘god’ (JC) did not have any prerequisites for assisting the needy and poor – shame on them…
I’vw ever given to these hate mongers. I’m transwoman of 46 and would love to see some of their mental tramsmissions strip if they were to meet me. I give ALL of my clothing & household donations to Animal Ark thrift store in St Paul which supports a large no-kill animal shelter in the Minneapolis/St Paul, MN area. Give your $ to small local organizations that support GLBT causes at a local or near national level…such as NCTE, PFund, PFLAG, local GLBT choral groups, businesses etc….and sleep better for it.
I haven’t put a dime in SA kettles in a couple of years (not that I ever did put much in, not liking fundie charities) but this makes sure I will continue not giving.
This is just inane. Of course they would think anything magickal or even remotely non-Christian is evil. Yet I bet they still have GI Joes and other toys which foster violence. Why does this not surprise me.
What a bunch of tools.
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