Home Depot To AFA: Get Lost

[WillParkinson]

Home Depot To AFA: Get Lost

Daily Finance reports that Home Depot is continuing to ignore the demands of the American Family Association, who wants the DIY giant to pull out of all gay-friendly events.

Home Depot is holding its line on the issue: "Our response on this has been and continues to be that we respect the diversity of all people and maintain an inclusive culture," Home Depot spokesman Steve Holmes said in an email. "This is what Frank told the AFA publicly at our annual shareholders meeting earlier this year." Home Depot isn't the only high-profile company the AFA has targeted. It has also tangled with Walt Disney (DIS), Procter & Gamble (PG), and PepsiCo (PEP). The AFA, which brags on its website that it has been on "the frontlines of America's culture war" since 1977, insists that it has nothing against gays. All it wants is for corporate America to remain "neutral" in these same conflicts, according to Sharp. That includes both supporting gay causes and marketing to the LGBT community.

Home Depot has earned your business. Go buy a dishwasher.

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2011/10/home-depot-to-afa-get-lost.html

[Scuba]

1. Didn't they give a lot of $$$ to the Shrubster?

[idiotgardener]

Does that make up for this?

They "should be shot; should be thrown out of their #%&!@ jobs."* That's what former Home Depot CEO Bernie Marcus thinks about fellow CEOs who don't fight the Employee Free Choice Act.

Bernie Marcus has been at the front of CEOs' efforts against the Employee Free Choice Act for months, but this stunning quote shows the depths to which Marcus will sink to prevent workers from having a free choice to join unions.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/983/377/189/

[idiotgardener]

2. Does that make up for this?

They "should be shot; should be thrown out of their #%&!@ jobs."* That's what former Home Depot CEO Bernie Marcus thinks about fellow CEOs who don't fight the Employee Free Choice Act.

Bernie Marcus has been at the front of CEOs' efforts against the Employee Free Choice Act for months, but this stunning quote shows the depths to which Marcus will sink to prevent workers from having a free choice to join unions.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/983/377/189/

[Ikonoklast]

3. Good for Home Depot.

Seems that the AFA is losing more of these little battles as of late, fuck 'em.

[NorthCarolina]

4. In our line of work we spend a lot of time, and $$, in Home Depot. nt

[saras]

5. In practice, it's them or Lowe's. Which is better?

Yes, I know that other places entirely are better, if you can get what you need. Sometimes you can.

This is two pluses in my scorecard for Home Depot. One for doing it, another for the theater of going up against Disney and Pepsi.

The anti-union thing is a minus that was already in the scorecard, for them and Lowes and most of the minor competitors in my area. Only a couple of pluses in the whole building-trades section on that issue, actually.

[iris27]

8. What? Home Depot isn't "going up against Disney and Pepsi".

"Home Depot isn't the only high-profile company the AFA has targeted. It has also tangled with Walt Disney (DIS), Procter & Gamble (PG), and PepsiCo (PEP)."


The AFA is the one "going up against" Home Depot, Disney, and Pepsi - and all three have so far told the homophobic assholes to fuck off.

[Maven]

6. Staying silent is NOT staying neutral when a targeted minority is involved

Good for Home Depot and fuck the AFA.

[Initech]

7. Oh if only more people would tell the American Bigot Association to get lost.