Queerty exposes Arkansas resident and Wal-Mart CEO, Mike Duke, as somone who is against gay adoption! Gasp!
Now they feel the need to ask gay men to refrain from buying Wrangler jeans or those fancy Puritan dress shirts.
Ugh:
Their prices may be low, but Wal-Mart's support of discrimination appears to be through the roof. Thanks to the site KnowThyNeighbor.org, the signers of an Arkansas petition to limit adoption only to married couples (effectively denying adoption to gays, who cannot legally marry) are now available for all to see. Well, they always were: This data is public information, and publishing it is perfectly legal (although the scourge of anti-gay advocates). But browsing Know They Neighbor, one name in particular sticks out: Mike Duke of 16 Pinnacle Drive, Rogers, Arkansas. Yep, that's the guy who Wal-Mart just named CEO on February 1.
...Now what? Well, you can throw this evidence into yet another hat as reasons to boycott Wal-Mart, right next to "poor employee health care," "unfair labor practices," and "destroying local businesses." If Wal-Mart's chief executive supports such discrimination, buying lawn chairs, toilet paper, and clothes for your kids effectively puts dollars in Duke's pocket.
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