Comments on: Corporate Political Donations, LGBT Friendliness, and Our Consumer Choices

By: LesbianDad

LesbianDad — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:55:45 +0000

Thank you, Dana, for the thought and research you put into this! As ever, top notch work of great benefit to so many.

By: Liza

Liza — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:48:17 +0000

This is why I’ve never been able to be a “single issue” voter or other decision maker.

There just aren’t a lot of “perfect” or “obvious” right answers or ways to do things in the world. At the same time, there often are “worse” choices and I, like many of us, prefer to spend my money in places that I think are socially responsible. So we have to craft functional compromises that make sense for our lives at the time.

Thanks for the collection of links to make finding “better answers” easier.

By: Dana

Dana — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:03:54 +0000

I don’t think that’s counterproductive at all. Part of what I was trying to say was that there are multiple factors that go into our buying decisions, and no simple answers. If you decide that the best thing is to raise your family, with a little help from Wal*Mart and eBay, that’s your right as a parent. Likewise, if you chose to shun them and spend your free time writing letters to their major shareholders, that’s your choice, too. What I object to are the folks who say there’s a one-size-fits-all answer. Our families are more varied than that.

By: DivaJean

DivaJean — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:35:29 +0000

This may sound somewhat counterproductive to the cause, but my family has always felt the most subversive thing we can do as a lesbian household is to successfully raise our kids. The next generation will not stand for its parents to be treated as second class- and we will eventually win out over time.

If, in the meantime, I have to occasionally use the evil Wal*Mart for sales- or eBay to make some money for my family- so be it.