Christian conservative Linda Harvey has
criticized Target over its support of marriage equality.
Earlier this month, the Minnesota-based
retailer joined in filing an amicus brief asking a federal
appeals court to strike down restrictive marriage bans in Wisconsin
and Indiana.
The move prompted the National
Organization for Marriage (NOM) to call for a boycott of Target.
(Related: NOM
launches Target boycott over gay marriage endorsement.)
Harvey, the founder of the Columbus,
Ohio-based Mission America and a frequent contributor to the
conservative website WND.com, joined NOM in taking issue with the
company's use of “bans” and “discrimination” to describe the
laws.
“They talk about laws on natural
marriage as being ‘bans’ on same-sex so-called marriage,” she
told her radio listeners. “And that's incorrect because people
who are male can still marry people who are female. The only
obstacle for a few people is the presence of unnatural desires.
Those desires can change with a different mind and heart.”
Later, she shared a letter she received
from Target in which the company expressed support for the LGBT
community.
“So where's the inclusivity for
traditional values families? Target also thinks there's an LGBT
community, but what about a Christian morals community? Do they get
the fact that most people have had it up to here with pushing
deviance and perversion into everyone's lives in America? That most
Americans don't accept the idea of two men or two women being married
when they are obviously not?”