Reasons not to donate to Salvation Army this holiday season:
- They don’t pay their female pastors. (Their wages get added to their husbands’ paychecks.)
- They turn away gay people from homeless services and other programs.
- They fire people for having mental illnesses.
This sounds sketchy as heck.
The first claim requires their female pastors to be married to another member of the Salvation Army to even be possible, much less true, and none of the claims are sourced.
I’ve done a quick Google search on all three claims and wasn’t able to find anything I’d consider definite proof of any of these claims. Individual instances of the SA fucking up, yeah, but nothing that makes it seem like any of these claims are actual policy for the organization as a whole, and even a few “oh shit oh shit we’re sorry that’s not how we do things” on their part.
Trans people have actually died because the Salvation Army refused to let them into their shelters.
Gay homeless people have been turned away from their shelters.
Their Australian branch also has a history of child abuse dating back to the 1950′s. Which is really ironic, considering they smear-campaigned a guy and accused him of being a child molester because he… ran a conference on sex-positivity and sex education, and also happened to be into BDSM.
For years they had “MARRIAGE IS FOR STRAIGHTS ONLY” horseshit on their official website, but that’s since been taken down. Whether it was an epiphany of conscience or PR, I can’t say. But they’re still getting caught funding anti-gay stuff all of the time. Sometimes legislation restricting gay rights, sometimes conversion therapy organizations.
And like most cults, if you marry outside of the Salvation Army, they kick you out.
Granted, the original post should have cited its’ sources. But it is no secret that these people are demonstrably monstrous. I don’t understand why Google failed to give you any of this information.
(via afk)
