Gay Rights Group Rates Wal-Mart "Do Not Buy"

The Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay rights group, is giving Wal-Mart (WMT) a red "do not buy" rating in its new consumer guide, bestowing a lump of coal on the retail giant just in time for the holiday shopping season.

Citing Wal-Mart's refusal to offer domestic partner benefits to its gay and lesbian workers, the HRC said Tuesday that the USA's biggest private employer has "more work to do in furthering equality." It advised gays and their supporters to shop elsewhere.

Wal-Mart rated a red 40 on a scale of 100, down from a yellow 65 in 2006. It was among 54 companies that scored 45 or lower in HRC's 2008 Corporate Equality index, which assigns ratings to 519 large companies. Also in the red: Toys R Us, RadioShack (RSH) and AutoZone (AZO).

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Comments

[vivibear]

TOO bad. Many members on http://femmate.com are discussing this topic on the forum lately. Why you guys discriminate gay and lesbians so?

[raker]

Good idea not to shop at Walmart because they deny equal benefits to gay employees. That and the slave labor in China and slave labor in Walmart stores everywhere and anti-union activity and destruction of small retailers everywhere.

[TakLoufer]

I'm more bothered by the fact that Wal-mart sold lead-infused toys to kids than how they treat my fellow 'mos' partners. I don't support hetero partner benefits either. Dependent children or elderly parents, yes; vital adult able to work for a living: nope.

[imsosure]

News flash: for all those people who feel they need to micromanage me...You have been included in nearly everything there is to be included in except on how I will manage my personal life and what I choice to do with it. Go have some fun for a change.

[ohiomark]

If gay people don't want to shop at Wal-Mart, who cares. If they want to spend extra money to shop somewhere else, go ahead.

If it means one less person in line ahead of me, great!!

Boycotts don't work Libs, ask Jesse Jackson. Every boycott he tried has failed.

[average joe]

I love the touch of a women I shop at Wal Marts. Gays they hang them in Iran last week two little boys put it on mideast T V. But this bunch wants to boycott Wal Marts. You going to stand around and do nothing about your kind being hung. Oh I forgot end the war, impeach impeach. We want our rights you can't make babies what can you do? The only one to cross the picket line ELLEN. Its all about you,I think not your king walt was toss from the navy you don't go to war just cry.

[Felicty]

Gays automatically know better than to ever shop at Walmart.

It's a "taste" thing.

[rayanthony]

I was going to go to Meijer today, but I think Wal-Mart has earned my money.

Go Sam Go

[WigWamWag]

No matter. Perverts due to their tasteless activities and other vile deeds do not merit any respect or acceptance into normal society. They are pushing their luck with a perverted dysfunctional agenda.

The power of the dollar cuts both ways. Now I will feel less guilty about supporting Sam's and Walmart on a regular basis.

Other companies might also rise above Walmart in using only American made products and legal citizenry services that are also without supporting of social seconds and other unqualified rejects. Unfortunately many of those social rejects have ruined the Democratic party.

[realitytrumpsbull]

Why should equal rights equate to special
rights? This is stupid. If you don't like
Wal-Mart, buy your imported lead-based toys at Tar-jaayy instead...