The Salvation Army: Sinking To A New Low

Although it is the middle of June, let's take a moment to discuss Christmas shall we? What kind of things do you think of when you think Christmas? Nativity scenes, Christmas Trees, lights, snow, holly, fun shaped cookies? What about red buckets and tingling bells? That's right.......... the Salvation Army.

If you are "in the know" about LGBT news then you're already aware of their less then stellar practice of not accepting the LGBT community, or helping them as they do the rest of the community at Christmas time. As if that wasn't bad enough, they have sunk to a new low.

A Salvation Army Media Relations Director, Major Andrew Craibe, went on record on a pubic radio show to say that the Salvation Army believes gay parents should be put to death! The Salvation Army believes they are upholding Christian beliefs by hating the LGBT community, and this new statement is referenced to Romans 1:18-32. This passage includes a admonition that homosexuals “deserved to die”. The Salvation Army training manual even has several chapters devoted to the "sin" of homosexuality.

Learning about this just makes me angry. They will willingly take money from the LGBT community, but believe people that are Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, Genderqueer, Asexual, Pansexual, or anything else shouldn't be helped and think LGBT parents should die. This is ludicrous!

The radio journalist, Serena Ryan, questioned Craibe about how Christian their death beliefs were, stating "But how is that Christian? Shouldn’t it be about love?". Craibe responded with "Well, the love that we would show is about that: consideration for all human beings to come to know salvation…[or die]".

Reading this makes me seriously question this man's sanity.

While this whole article might really make you upset and bring you down, it's important to remember this: the Salvation Army works because of donations and purchases from their theft stores. If we all work together to stop donations and stop shopping at their stores then the company doesn't win.

To read the article in full, please visit http://tgvnews.com/2013/06/salvation-army-says-gays-need-to-be-put-to-death/


I've started a petiton after reading this article. If you'd like to look at it and sign it please visit - https://www.change.org/petitions/the-salvation-army-stop-their-discrimination-against-the-lgbt-community