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<P><STRONG>Press Release</STRONG><BR><STRONG>Americans for
Truth</STRONG></P>
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<P>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 24, 2006</P>
<P>CONTACT: <STRONG>Matt Barber</STRONG> at 847-867-7554 / <A
title=mailto:tiaorg@comcast.net
href="mailto:tiaorg@comcast.net">tiaorg@comcast.net</A> or <STRONG>Peter
LaBarbera</STRONG> at 630-546-4439 / <A
title=mailto:americansfortruth@comcast.net
href="mailto:americansfortruth@comcast.net">americansfortruth@comcast.net</A>
to arrange an interview. </P>
<P><STRONG>AFT: ARE WAL-MART VALUES FAMILY VALUES?</STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG>Naperville, Illinois— </STRONG>Is Wal-Mart passing the wrong
kind of ‘values’ on to its customers? It’s no secret that Walmart
Stores, Inc. has been under vicious attack in recent months by leftists
and union activists due to its unwavering support of right-to-work
policies, and its refusal to allow unions to organize in its stores. But
now it seems Wal-Mart is additionally hell-bent on alienating its
heretofore greatest and most vocal supporters: Conservatives,
Christians, and Traditionalists. </P>
<P><STRONG>Matt Barber</STRONG>, Corporate Outreach Director for
Americans for Truth, expressed his disappointment with Wal-Mart today
for further capitulating to the powerful homosexual lobby by recently
partnering with the “National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce;” an
extremely influential homosexual organization steadfastly devoted to
furthering the ‘gay’ agenda within corporate America. </P>
<P>“It’s a real shame, and I think people who value traditional marriage
and the Biblical model of human sexuality should sit up and take notice
of Wal-Mart’s recent support of radical pro-homosexual/anti-Christian
groups and policies that seek to destroy the time-honored institutions
of marriage and family, and further aim to silence proponents of
traditional family values,” said Barber. </P>
<P>While understandably flying under the radar, Wal-Mart’s British
subsidiary recently introduced a “gay wedding” line of products, and
Wal-Mart corporate has inexplicably re-defined “family” in its corporate
policies to include sexual partners of the same gender. It has also
added employees who choose to engage in dangerous homosexual behaviors
to its anti-discrimination policies. “Of course nobody advocates
harassment of anyone in the workplace for anything,” said Barber; “but
my concern is that Wal-Mart’s recent company policy officially endorsing
and promoting the homosexual lifestyle, now discriminates against
employees who happen to believe, as Judeo/Christian tradition holds,
that marriage is between one man and one woman, and that homosexual
behavior is both immoral and unhealthy. What if Wal-Mart decided to hold
a “gay-day” like other companies have done? Would pro-family employees
then be fired f! or ‘discrimination’ if they refused to participate
because it violated their sincerely held religious beliefs?” </P>
<P><STRONG>Peter LaBarbera</STRONG>, Founder and President of Americans
for Truth added: “Wal-Mart has always been a favorite of God fearing
Middle American customers who hold traditional family values. I’m very
surprised that Wal-Mart would now bite the hand that feeds it and thumb
its nose at those very customers. It seems to me that Wal-Mart should
reconsider its unsavory alliance with these extremist homosexual
activists in today’s heated and polarizing culture war. It risks
entirely alienating the vast majority of its customer base. Perhaps this
great corporation with such an impressive history should play
Switzerland in the culture war, return to a position of neutrality, and
get back to doing what it has always done best – selling high quality
products at the lowest prices available.”</P>
<P>Americans for Truth indicated its intent to further investigate and
report on Wal-Mart’s recent endorsement of the homosexual lifestyle, and
to request a meeting with Wal-Mart officials to ensure that its
family-values employees will not be discriminated against in light of
Wal-Mart’s growing support of the anti-family, anti-Christian homosexual
lobby. “We’ll talk with Wal-Mart,” said Barber; “and then determine
whether it’s necessary for us to further educate Wal-Mart customers –
and employees – on a wide spread basis about the new and
not-so-impressive left-wing values now offered to Wal-Mart
shoppers.”</P>
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<P><EM>Americans for Truth (<A
href="http://www.americansfortruth.com/">www.americansfortruth.com</A>)
is the only National pro-family organization solely dedicated to
exposing and opposing the anti-Christian homosexual, bisexual and
transgendered agenda. For more information, e-mail <A
href="mailto:americansfortruth@comcast.net">americansfortruth@comcast.net</A>.<BR>AFT,
P.O. Box 5522, Naperville, IL 60567-5522. Phone: 630-546-4439.
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