Wal-Mart makes it official: giving less $$ to homosexuals
Ed Thomas
OneNewsNow.com
June 25, 2007

Wal-Mart has made it clear that the retail operation is actively pulling back its corporate support -- in financial terms, at least, if not ideological -- of homosexual and transgender organizations, citing a corporate policy adopted last fall and placed on its website.

Reactions have been varied from conservative and homosexual rights groups after Wal-Mart spokeswoman Mona Williams, senior vice president of corporate communications, told FORTUNE Magazine, "We are not currently planning corporate-level contributions to GLBT [gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender] groups."

According to the magazine, individual stores can still donate to homosexual groups.Williams said that mirrors a policy posted on its website last fall, which stated Wal-Mart would not make corporate contributions "to support or oppose highly controversial issues unless they are directly related to the company's ability to serve its customers." the rest