As if Wal-Mart didn't have enough troubles

From WorldNetDaily...

Wal-Mart has confirmed to WorldNetDaily that it has joined a "gay" chamber of commerce, but describes it as just another routine business outreach and says other major corporations are doing the same types of things. 

However, conservatives and Christians see it differently, and Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C., already has launched a citizens protest of the move....

A report on an advertising industry site, AdAge, said that Wal-Mart had not only joined the NGLCC but also has hired a "gay-marketing" shop and started discussions about extending domestic-partner benefits to employees.

Perkins told supporters that the "heat" from the "radical left" apparently is influencing the company's corporate decisions, and he wants constituents to let Wal-Mart know of their displeasure. 

"While the NGLCC professes to promote the 'interests of the LGBT business community,' this is not all they have done," Perkins said. "Recently, they described efforts to defend traditional marriage as an attempt to 'write discrimination into the Constitution …' The NGLCC also advocated attaching a pro-homosexual 'hate crimes' amendment to legislation intended to protect children from violent sex offenders." 

"It is unfortunate," Perkins said, "that Wal-Mart has joined forces with an organization whose mission opposes many of the values shared by rural and small-town America. It is precisely the interests of average Americans that Wal-Mart has prided itself in promoting....

As part of Wal-Mart's participation in the chamber, the report said, Dee Breazeale, vice president of divisional merchandising for Sam's Club Jewelry, is joining the group's Corporate Advisory Council and Wal-Mart will sponsor two of the group's annual conferences. 

Why is it that companies that are already on the left's "hit list" keep trying to find ways to suck up to them? Wal-Mart's biggest defenders are the very people who will be the most offended at this sick publicity ploy. What in the world are they thinking?!?

Posted by Danny Carlton at September 1, 2006 2:22 PM