By Tim Redmond
The Chron’s Bronstein has a long post today on why he’s going to keep giving money to the Salvation Army, the conservative Christian organization that thinks homosexuality is a sin and fights to keep having to provide benefits for domestic partners.
I get that they do (some) good work. So does the Catholic Church. There are all sorts of right-wing characters who give to charity, serve soup to the poor — and try to make goddamn sure that the world never changes in such a way that the need for charity will decline.
The Army’s supporters say 89 percent of the money goes directly to service. So 11 cents out of every dollar you drop in the red can goes to support an agenda dedicated to bigotry and intolerance that doesn’t belong anywhere in society any more. That’s too much for me.