Indiana attorney general criticizes Target for Pride merchandise

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13 thoughts on “Indiana attorney general criticizes Target for Pride merchandise

    1. Pride month ended June 30. The clowns can return to their libraries, churches, and elementary schools where they belong.

    1. No I think a common sense approach is best. We all decide where we want to spend our dollars and let the chips fall where they may!

  1. We’ve got big, important quality of life and pocketbook issues affecting all Hoosiers – black or white, male or female, gay or straight and this sad excuse for a public official is consumed with dividing, polarizing and driving us apart with sham issues like what Target is selling?!? Shame on you, Mr Rokita. You violate your oath to serve all Hoosiers fairly and impartially with shameless grandstanding nonsense like this!

  2. Rokita and other republicans seem to be more concerned about attacking LGBT communities; but meanwhile hide behind their “second amendment” stance paid for by the NRA lobby while Hoosiers die from Gun violence, and they continue to oppose some common sense gun law changes. Pro life? Not by their actions! Protecting all Hoosiers? Don’t think so! (BTW, I am a gun owner – but am appalled by the legislative agenda which the law enforcement agencies clearly opposed!)

    1. Yes, truly, it’s Todd Rokita that’s the criminal mastermind and not a company committed to placing shirts that say “Satan Respects My Pronouns” right at the entrance to every one of its thousands of stores. Those poor attacked LGBTers! They aren’t ever ever the aggressors themselves, are they? Always the victims, 300% of the time.

      It is indeed a sham issue, and Rokita is stepping out of line by what he’s doing. I will concede that. A crooked company like Target should have the right to sell what it wants to sell and face the consequences…and boy is it facing the consequences.

      But to deflect with gun violence (which is mostly “leftists killing other leftists”) and to pretend that the LGBT community isn’t doing everything it possibly can to make us return to the 1950s–when “pervert” and “homosexual” were basically synonymous–is just covering for the rot and degeneracy that have helped American cities make excuses of open street defecation. Keep frothing at a munchkin like Rokita–truly in control of the levers of power!

    2. Here’s an idea … don’t shop Target if you don’t like them. Encourage a boycott.

      Go into Target and buy lots of their stuff and go home and set it on fire if that floats your boat.

      That will actually drive the change you’re after, declining sales and a brand that’s mud.

  3. His letter is disappointing and disgusting.
    His time could be much better spent on Menard’s deceptive advertising of their “everything on sale 11% off” ads, when in fact nothing is 11% off, it’s a mail in rebate that’s not even cash, only store credit.

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