Wal-Mart CEO Signs Petition Banning Gay Adoption

[Liberal_in_LA]

Source: Queers united

Mike Duke the CEO of Wal-Mart, the world's largest grocery retailer is in some hot water for his personal political actions in the state of Arkansas.

Over the weekend, the website knowthyneighbor.org revealed that Mike Duke signed a petition to put an anti-gay adoption ban on the ballot in Arkansas.

Read more: http://queersunited.blogspot.com/2009/05/wal-mart-ceo-signs-petition-banning-gay.html

[JI7]

1. but i bet he is ok with little kids working in sweatshops

[Skittles]

8. of course

and if he could make money of gay adoptions, he'd be all for them

[liberal N proud]

13. That is the Wal-Mart way

[SmileyRose]

2. I disagree - adoption should always be a happy affair.

[No Elephants]

12. Ah, SmileyRose. I posted before reading your post. We seem to think alike on this.

[DUlover2909]

3. Walmart management is nothing but a concentration of jerkwads.

I stopped shopping there a long time ago. Target and Khol's offer higher quality products for almost the same price. F-Mao-Mart.

[Jack Rabbit]

4. But I don't need another reason to boycott WalMart.

I've got plenty as it is.

[stewartcolbert08]

5. Wow

A rich conservative opposing gay adoption! What about this is suppposed to be shocking? :shrug:

[ColbertWatcher]

6. I love you internets, you never let anyone hide their hatred! n/t

[ima_sinnic]

7. they're losing the marriage issue, so now they're turning to adoption

I hate Wal-Mart and haven't shopped there for years. The stuff they sell is tacky, sleazy, cheap junk.

[Skittles]

9. ugly, dirty stores

[ima_sinnic]

14. the ugliness in the souls of the owners

it's not only the cheap junk, but their cheap exploitation of young, vulnerable workers, their uglification of suburban areas, their soulless, bloodsucking demands of suppliers and manufacturers, and their treatment of employees like disposable commodities not worth treating with respect and care.

When I was a kid, "Sears and Roebuck" was the biggest name in town. We ordered most of our school clothes from the S&R catalog, and some major appliances. Like all behemoths, Sears eventually fell, maybe not all the way, but to a lower position, and Wal-Mart eventually will too. I just hope I live to see that day.

[Skittles]

16. hey, I remember my mum ordering our clothes from S&R catalog

I guess that would have been the Sixties :D

[Art_from_Ark]

20. I remember the S&R Christmas Wishbook

I always skipped the clothing section and went right to the hobby section. I always wanted their super deluxe coin collecting kit, but never got it. But I did get Winnie-the-Pooh and Peanuts comic books, a rock tumbler kit and an acrylic paperweight-making kit from the Wishbook.

Fond memories from the Sixties...

[northernlights]

10. why doesn't Mike Duke want children to have homes?

Why does he want children to grow up without parents to love and care for them?

[jsamuel]

17. Technically, it didn't outlaw gay adoption. It outlawed adoption to "unmarried" people who are

cohabitating.

But since gay people can't get married...

[No Elephants]

11. "Gay adoption?" Aren't most adoptions joyful? (Sorry, but terms like

"gay marriage" and "gay adoption" are to me like nails on a blackboard.)

[Betty]

15. I wish I could boycott them even more

than I do...which is to say I never set foot in one.

[OhioChick]

18. Just another reason to boycott Walmart. n/t

[sarcasmo]

19. Wow, can Mike Duke get any more Idiotic?

[Veruca Salt]

21. I hate walmart. n/t