The web company that hosted the site for a campaign to boycott Target has shut that site down, saying its content is “hateful and discriminatory.”
The campaign was started to encourage a boycott until the retail company changed its policy that allows customers to choose the bathroom that correlates with the gender they feel they identify with.
“Our #AnywhereButTARGET campaign has been so effective that at 9 a.m. Thanksgiving morning our Minneapolis-based web host (Leadpages) unfortunately shut us down for being ‘hateful and discriminatory’ to try to stop this movement!” wrote Lance Wray in a press release. Wray is executive director of 2nd Vote, the organization behind the website.
Conservatives have been asking Target to change its controversial bathroom and fitting room policies and say the boycott has contributed, at least somewhat, to Target’s loss in revenue — 1.4 million people committed to participate in the boycott.
Buddy Smith, senior vice president of American Family Association (AFA), wrote in a recent article, “Target is hoping that you won’t care that they allow men into women’s bathrooms and changing rooms.”
Leadpages said it removed the campaign’s site because it wants to promote “inclusiveness,” according to The Christian Post.
Leadpages’ director of operations Doug Storbeck wrote to Wray, “At Leadpages we strive to create an inclusive workplace that upholds the dignity of all people. We value, respect and celebrate everyone’s individualities and honor their unique strengths from all different walks of life.” (TAB)
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