Politics: Target messes up(by doing what’s right for business?)
Gay Inc. got all heated up over Target Corp.’s support of Republican Tom Emmer, a fiscal and social conservative whose not gay-friendly, for the governor spot in Minnesota. Jonathan Rauch writes at Independent Gay Forum:
“It’s probably good to send a message that businesses that donate to candidates opposing legal equality for gay people are going to be held to account. Whether the protests should continue after the donors subsequently apologize, in an effort to get them to cough up more funds for LGBT groups and their favored causes and/or to keep activists in the news and gin up their fundraising operations, is debatable.”
HRC is (with mixed success) dragging Target’s reputation through the mud as an attempt to drum up dollars for this latest election cycle, but this seems to ignore the larger issue: that Gay Inc. is not doing enough to foster support among the fraction of Republicans that can do good things for LGBT civil rights. Until they do, and gay rights remain a strictly one party issue, corporations like Target will have to deal with a frustrating dichotomy: gay friendly or growth friendly?
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Honestly meant with no snark but what is it that the GOP can do for us? To the best of my knowledge the GOP is generally anti-gay. This is not to say that individual Republicans cannot be gay friendly but they would be breaking party lines.
In this case the Target boycotts and protests were not spurred by a candidate that was even remotely gay friendly, so how do they harm our relationship with pro-gay Republicans?
Again, this is not a criticism of the article, just a couple genuine questions.
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