[krisakira]

I've been researching a lot about the Salvation Army, and this article really explains the problems it has with the LGBT community and discrimination. If you support the LGBT community, you should not be giving any money to Salvation Army because some of it goes toward anti-gay acts.

Here's the article.

On its webpage, the group claims that "the services of The Salvation Army are available to all who qualify, without regard to sexual orientation." While the words are nice, their actions speak volumes. They blatantly ignore the position statement and deny LGBT people services unless they renounce their sexuality, end same-sex relationships, or, in some cases, attend services "open to all who confess Christ as Savior and who accept and abide by The Salvation Army's doctrine and discipline." In other words, if you're gay or lesbian, you don't qualify.

The article also lists several things the Salvation Army has done in the past against the LGBT community.

In 2004, the Salvation Army threatened to close all their soup kitchens in New York City to protest the city's decision to require all vendors and charities doing business with the city to adhere to all civil rights laws. The organization balked at having to treat gay employees equal to straight employees.

The web pages about homosexuality are no longer on the Salvation Army's webpage, and have been replaced by Anti-Pornography information. But their beliefs remain the same.

[Yoda]

Do they ask?

They gave me money for my electric bill and no questions asked about my faith or sexual preference.

[krisakira]

Here you go...

“The Salvation Army refused to help us,” Mr. Browning recalls, “unless we broke up and then left the ‘sinful homosexual lifestyle’ behind. We slept on the street, and they didn’t help when we declined to break up at their insistence.”

In June of 2012, in a radio interview in Australia, a Salvation a Major in the Salvation Army said that sexually active gay people should be executed. See: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/06/23...-put-to-death/

The Salvation Army has since apologized this statement. http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/06/24...d-be-executed/

I wonder if the Salvation Army's official doctrine, "Salvation Story: Salvationist Handbook of Doctrine" has been amended so that it reflects the statement in the above apology.

[carrie_ann]

i worked with the sally ann (salvation army) yrs ago and found if ur face does not fit, you r not welcome, kris is right ... ((((hugs))) kris

[Maven]

I haven't donated to the Salvation Army ever, I don't think. Part of that was my OCD, but also my issues with religious groups. I only recently learned of their anti-gay position, but it doesn't surprise me.