Wow, I won't give to the Salvation Army this Christmas for the first time ever.

[eredien]

Salvation Army Services are available to all people regardless of their orientation. Unless you are a domestic partner of someone who works for them.

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[copperwolf.livejournal.com]

As the article says, they're an evangelical Christian organization. I would have been the more surprised if the Western Region or whatever had been permitted to go ahead with extending benefits to unmarried partners. And if they had, wouldn't you consider them to be compromising their beliefs/principles? (Setting aside the fact that you disagree with those beliefs/principles.)

[(Anonymous)]

I would consider them to be compromising their beliefs, yes--but it looks like that's what they did. It looks like they approved that change last month, and then went back on it this month when they got a lot of annoyed phone calls. I think they should have either never given them out in the first place, which would have been (IMO wrong, but) consistent with their beliefs, or should have kept giving them out and adopted a new set of policies.

[eredien]

Oops, that was me.

[kaypendragon.livejournal.com]

I dunno - it sounds like a disagreement between the national org and the regional chapters.

Look on the bright side and be proud that at least someone thought it was a good idea. Honestly, how many companies extend benefits to unmarried partners?

[rax.livejournal.com]

Mine! (Though Eredien's chosen to take the benefits from her company instead, since they're better.) And we sell software to oil companies and the government, so we're hardly a bunch of hippies. Less anecdotally, a pretty large number of Fortune 500 companies as well --- more than half, in 2006! The numbers have only gone up, I'm pretty sure.

It is a bright side that an organization with the anti-queer history of the Salvation Army has this kind of dissension in its ranks, but benefits for domestic partners isn't exactly revolutionary anymore.

[kaypendragon.livejournal.com]

Wow! That's news to me, but at least it's good news!