2006-12-07 03:28:54 · 8 answers · asked by Max 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
They do offer benefits to same-sex couples so by extension, they would still offer those benefits if the couples have been able to form a Legal Union.
That's all well and good for them, but in spite of their stance on that issue, I STILL boycott their stores because of the ethics problems they have(Sweatshop labor, gender inequality, placing stores where a community has overwhelmingly voted against allowing them to place a location).....
2006-12-07 03:35:48 · answer #1 · answered by IndyT- For Da Ben Dan 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They are wanting to but they got the Family affairs office on there back about it. There was some article about it at GAY. com This group even told it followers not even shop at Wal-Mart day after Thanksgiving during there biggest sale of the year.
2006-12-07 12:35:04 · answer #2 · answered by Johnny 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes they do.
They donated large amounts of money to several GLBT groups.
Wal-Mart donated $60,000 to Out & Equal, a nonprofit group that brings together gay-employee networks from companies across America, and this fall it sent about 40 Pride members to Out & Equal's annual convention.
Wal-Mart also joined the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, an organization of about 24,000 gay and lesbian-owned businesses, and several Wal-Mart execs bought tickets to the annual dinner of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay-advocacy group.
It turns out that much of this activity can be traced back to an unassuming middle manager who several years ago asked Wal-Mart to live up to the words in the cheer - "It's My Wal-Mart" - that its people shout out whenever groups of them get together.
Early in 2003, Ken Pearson, who works at Wal-Mart University, the company's training arm, came back from a corporate meeting where the theme was "It's My Wal-Mart" and speakers included the African-American poet Maya Angelou. "But I didn't really feel like it was my Wal-Mart, as a gay man," Pearson says.
Back then, the company did not have a written policy protecting gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) employees against discrimination. Nor did it provide health benefits to the same-sex partners of gays and lesbians.
So Pearson composed an e-mail to a Wal-Mart vice chairman, explaining that he is gay, asking if he was welcome at Wal-Mart and outlining his concerns.
"I sat there shaking," Pearson recalls. "Can I hit send? There's nothing to protect me from losing my job." Soon after dispatching the e-mail, Pearson was invited to meet with the executive, who told him that the letter had moved him and that things would change.
They did, and fast. In May 2003, Wal-Mart added protection for sexual orientation to its non-discrimination policy. As it happened, a shareholders meeting organized by the Pride Foundation, a Seattle-based nonprofit that supports gay causes, also had been asking the company to do so.
2006-12-07 12:14:53 · answer #3 · answered by ♂ Randy W. ♂ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THE ANSWER WILL SHOCK YOU.............
until last month walmart didn't support gay issues
last month they donated a large sum of money to support gay marrage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
they got what was out of there @@@. out
2006-12-07 11:41:28 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
walmart sucks I don't shop there anymore
2006-12-10 00:30:10 · answer #5 · answered by Willy J 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No but they do support world domantion
2006-12-07 11:48:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not really...and even if they did they are still the evil empire.
2006-12-07 11:35:20 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
WHAT? What does sexual orientation have to do with a STORE???
2006-12-07 11:38:24 · answer #8 · answered by teacherhelper 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋