HRC to donate $150K to even out Target donation to MN Forward
Friday, September 10, 2010 at 11:00 am
The Human Rights Campaign pledged Friday to donate $150,000 to political causes in Minnesota to offset a donation by retail giant Target to MN Forward, a political group backing GOP gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer. HRC will be donating $100,000 to WIN Minnesota, $30,000 to candidates (including Emmer’s DFL opponent Mark Dayton) and $20,000 to OutFront Minnesota. The group also said it will be ramping up its political efforts in the state because Minnesota could be the next state to allow gay marriage.
Target took considerable heat from LGBT advocates for its donation to MN Forward and, by extension, Emmer, who activists say is anti-gay. HRC asked Target to also donate to pro-LGBT causes to balance the donation but Target refused.
HRC says that its new political donations in Minnesota are as much about Target as they are about winning gay marriage in the state.
“We’ve understood long before the Target situation that Minnesota was poised, as is New York, to be the next state to win marriage equality,” HRC president Joe Solmonese told the Associated Press.
11 Comments
Comment posted September 10, 2010 @ 11:36 am
Since the donation became news, I’ve begun shopping extensively at Target. Much of the awesome savings I’ve enjoyed I’m donating to Emmer’s and Bachmann’s campaigns. Everyone’s a winner.
Comment posted September 10, 2010 @ 11:45 am
It’ll be a very happy day for me when both Minnesota, my home state, and New York, where I am attending college as a student from Minnesota, both legalize same-gender marriage early next year! This couldn’t happen soon enough – and no, I won’t register with Target when that time comes for me.
Comment posted September 10, 2010 @ 12:44 pm
Wise man says you shouldn’t base your happiness on the acceptance of others, especially strangers. It isn’t healthy.
Comment posted September 10, 2010 @ 6:18 pm
Jimmy, it is not up to you or the others who I can marry. Nice try, but fail.
Comment posted September 10, 2010 @ 6:37 pm
By making marriage a government regulated entity, it is up to me, or rather up to the electorate. This will never change, IMO. Why not just throw rainbow sprinkles on each other and declare yourselves married? IMO that would be every bit as legitimate as any government declaration.
Comment posted September 10, 2010 @ 10:07 pm
“Why not just throw rainbow sprinkles on each other and declare yourselves married? IMO that would be every bit as legitimate as any government declaration.”
Truly an intellectual giant is among us.
Pingback posted September 11, 2010 @ 4:11 pm
[...] HRC will be donating $100,000 to WIN Minnesota, $30,000 to candidates (including Emmer’s DFL opponent Mark Dayton) and $20,000 to OutFront Minnesota. The group also said it will be ramping up its political efforts in the state because Minnesota could be the next state to allow gay marriage. [Minnesota Independent] [...]
Comment posted September 12, 2010 @ 2:14 pm
“Wise man says you shouldn’t base your happiness on the acceptance of others, especially strangers. It isn’t healthy.”
The wisdom of an antisocial personality.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/antisocial
Interestingly, the first use of the word “antisocial” followed only a few years after the ratification of the Bill of Rights.
“unalienable rights” such as marriage are not subject to the whims of the mob mentality.
It is good to see the protections of the Constitution prevailing over the inbred bigotry of certain segments of society.
Comment posted September 12, 2010 @ 8:22 pm
“The wisdom of an antisocial personality.”
You are obviously joking. It’s your ilk that are shoving your norm modifications down the throats of 95%+ of the population.
See http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/piss_and_moan
Comment posted September 13, 2010 @ 10:24 am
Doesn’t the very concept of a marriage license qualify as a government regulation on marriage that ties the hands of religion? Why aren’t you opposing marriage licenses, Jimmy?
Comment posted September 13, 2010 @ 12:02 pm
I am. I see no role for government in regulating personal relationships. Straight or otherwise.
RSS feed for comments on this post.
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.







