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Wal-Mart deal with gays sparks evangelical ire

HAUS ARREST
Published Thursday, November 16, 2006

This holiday season, Wal-Mart faces a boycott. To most Yalies, this is hardly controversial: Our idealistic ivory-tower classmates are rarely enchanted with union-busting, health-care-withholding corporate mega-chains. But this latest criticism comes not from liberal activists, but from evangelical Christians. Their complaint? Wal-Mart is cooperating with homosexuals to further the “gay agenda.”

On Aug. 21, the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce announced that the world’s largest retailer had joined a long list of corporate partners, all pledging to include LGBT-owned...

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