Protest Salvation Army's Discrimination Against Gays With Queer Dollars.

When the Salvation Army announced that their Western division was going to grant domestic partner's benefits, we all thought that they had softened their much publicized stance against gays which was brought to the international spotlight when the media exposed a behind closed doors aggreement between the Salvation Army and the Bush Administration. Did they soften their stance? No. They rescinded their offer, and declared once again that same sex relationships would not receive benefits regardless of local and state law.

IN fact, they have suggested that cities that have non-discrimination laws will be excluded from receiving benefits from the Salvation Army. So typically "Christian" of them.

I was ranting and raving and threatening to mug the Santas and shove their little bells... and I asked if anyone had a suggestion about what we could DO about this. And Dano came up with a BRILLIANT IDEA which I want to turn into a national campaign ASAP.

YOU CAN ALL HELP.

Dano suggested we stuff the little red kettles with fake money - he suggested some things we could write on the money. Just fold it up so it looks like a real dollar bill, and you remain anonymous, the santa isn't confronted and embarrased over a policy that he has nothing to do with, and if enough people participate, the Salvation Army will have to rethink it's own policies. You can even continue to give REAL money along with the fake if you wish. It's a beautiful, simple and brilliant idea and Dano is a genius!

Following Dano's guidelines, Drew Greyfox came up with a prototype which was alterer to it's present appearance after charges of counterfeiting were brought by anti-gay organizations. REMEMBER - any one-sided fake dollar is NOT illegal. These can be downloaded, resized, and printed out. It can be customized if you want to play around with it in photoshop.
These images may take a minute to load. To save, copy, and print queer dollars, just right click and choose "save picture as". You can then attach it to e-mail a friend or print out as many as you need daily to donate to the Salvation Army.

Please feel free to alter or customize queer dollars any way you wish.

http://www.angelfire.com/rock/sluttyrockstar/queerdollars.html

I also found this and thought it was a good read.

http://www.cephasministry.com/church_and_state_salvation_army_tip_of_the_iceberg.html

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I'm sorry, but putting fake money in a charity donation box is too far for me. I'll protest, write letters, make phone calls, and send e-mails, but this is much too spiteful and mean-spirited to be a good idea.

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I am with Trekkie2. I would say just don't put anything in the kettle if you want to protest or write letters, e-mails as Trekkie2 suggested.

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"You can even continue to give REAL money along with the fake if you wish."

Trekkie, did you read the whole thing? Give them as much as you want, but also give them the note.

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EXACTLY

**** the salvation army and their institutionalized bigotry.

as I said, **** them and their bigotry, i don't care if all tehy know is a bitchy queen gave them a piece of crap, but it certainly won't be sarcastic.

"REMEMBER - any one-sided fake dollar is NOT illegal."

Not true! There are specific requirements, especially to size of the "artwork", and my further understanding is that it is intended to be used as art, and not passed the same as money.

Now why does anyone think this is a good idea again? Seems more like a third grade prank.

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It's called sending a message.

If you want to have your money go to a group that discriminates, go ahead.

I'd rather let them know directly.


I'm floored at how apathetic people are.



And Trekkie, you haven't answered my question...

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What type of ****ing protest is NOT GIVING if I wasn't going to give anyway?

"they announce that cities that have non-discrimination laws will be excluded from receiving benefits from them"

I'm sorry I must have missed the link where this was announced to the public??

Link to story please.

there, is a link, right? right??

I mean, otherwise people around here would look like a bunch of fu***ng liars, posting things that aren't true.

and that's not the case, right?

right???

I started a facebook group in order to spread the word to our non-broadwayworld friends.

Here is the link: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=37558326375&ref=mf

Make sure to invite your friends.


"There must be an action to get a reaction."

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