here's your periodic holiday reminder that FUCK THE SALVATION ARMY
they're a queer hate organization. don't fucking donate to them. only shoplift from their stores. tell their solicitors to eat rocks
@vantablack in European countries they play lip-service to the diversity laws (because charities can't get funding otherwise) which is also why they have toned down their overt anti-LGBT+ rhetoric, I still don't trust them one bit.
Also if Muslims or any other faith group had such an overt paramilitary look they would straight away get investigated by the authorities (FFS we have had actual war in this country between Christian denominations and it was **still** happening in my lifetime)
more Salvation Army horror stories
@vfrmedia @vantablack A story from the Netherlands, Dordrecht: there was a local Occupy camp here, and after a while we started wondering where some people were coming from. We supported them as much as we could, but they were clearly in need of serious help, and didn't seem to know anything about why we were there, what the whole activism thing was about.
Then we found out that the local Salvation Army maintains a banlist for their local homeless shelter, banning anyone who has 'caused too much disruption' (usually folks with severe drug problems) from their shelter. They were telling all of those people to go sleep in our camp instead. Without ever talking to us about it even once, without bothering to check whether we were prepared to handle this.
None of us were trained for this shit, and they were the local-government appointed organization that *should* have been dealing with this!
That's not even talking about the *many* stories going around about their sketchy business deals with private care organizations, which nobody seems to ever have properly investigated, unfortunately.
