Boycott the Salvation Army (Canada)

A queer Canadian perspective.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

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• Sally Anne
• Salvation Army

[Dizzydizzy17]

If you want to talk lifestyle, let's talk.

Let's talk about those who condone a lifestyle of the repression of women & actively turn a blind eye to their deaths.

Lets talk about those who claim homosexuality a mental illness & jail them.

Let's talk about slavery, child labour and the sex trade.

Let's talk about fair trade?

And yet when TSA has a position on the definition of marriage - that oposes your own, that is hurtful? Thanks again for taking the time with me today. Good night.

[NathanielChristopher]

@Dizzydizzy17 Discrimination is discrimination. There are varying degrees of it, from those who outwardly support the execution of gays (which is consistent with the Bible I might add), to those who, as you say, disagree with the constitutional definition of marriage in this country.

[NathanielChristopher]

@Dizzydizzy17 And the Salvation has, as I've explained to you, done more than just politely express their opinion against equal marriage. At nearly every turn they've used their resources to oppose expanding equality to LGBT Canadians. Up until 1986 homosexuality was a criminal offence in New Zealand. When a bill was proposed that would decriminalise consensual sex between men the SA active throughout the country gathering signatures for a petition to prevent the bill from passing.

[Dizzydizzy17]

TSA has never deem the lifestyle of a gay person is less than that of a straight person. All I read is a position they put forward regarding the classification of marriage - what offends you should offend those who are living in common law. But I don't hear that. I don't see any clamouring to Parliament Hill of common law couples screeming commonlawphobia against TSA.

[NathanielChristopher]

@Dizzydizzy17 Studies show, in Canada at least, that homophobic discrimination is one of the most prevalant forms of discrimination in this country. This is especially true in schools. A 2003 report, for instance, noted that homophobic harassment was identified as a major problem in every school district in this province. Further studies, reports, and news reports of youth suicides only confirm these grim statistics. The Salvation Army is part of what's wrong.

[Dizzydizzy17]

Zinna Jones - I viewed her videos today. Her rants are not truthful - cherry picking - half truths to forward her own political agenda.

Regarding TSA - public money was not used in their presentation at the parliamentary committee - internal funds from SA congregations funded their appearance before the parliamentary committee. I've been taught that you don't distort facts that you don't have the full story about.

[NathanielChristopher]

@Dizzydizzy17 Everything she has said on the Sally Anne's record with respect to LGBT issues is independently verifiable. Even if the Salvation Army does do wonderful work in other areas, that does not negate the fact that they are a socially conservative, religious organisation that has fought against LGBT equality over the years.

[starjimstar]

The tax exempt assessed value of churches in the GVRD totals $854,738,500 (as published in 1996.) The government should revoke tax exempt status from churches and use that money to fund secular support strategies with no strings attached.

[NathanielChristopher]

@ChristiansForUnity Using caps-lock for an entire sentence is wrong! I promise you that your God will strike you down and send you to an eternity in hell for that. My Bible group will not be praying for you.

[justanoldman1]

What all of you forget is that the salvation army is a religion and therefore they have to right not to agree with homosexuals getting married, it is in our laws. Frankly I don't care one way or the other but churches do have the right to express their opinions.

[NathanielChristopher]

@Dizzydizzy17 Well, as it happens marital status is an area of protection in the BC Human Rights Code. Perhaps I will look into this a bit more and make a video along those lines... I would be interested to know, for example, how many people in common law relationships have killed themselves in the last year due to societal discrimination against them.

[NathanielChristopher]

@NathanielChristopher Anyways, I'm done this for tonight. I need sleep. I'll leave you with this post from Zinnia:

zinniajones(dot)com/blog/2011/­12/common-objections-to-boycot­ting-the-salvation-army/