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Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison co-led a group of 15 AGs in penning an open letter to retailer Target “urging the company to be “mindful of its obligations” to the LGBTQIA+ community. The letter also urged Target “to double down on inclusivity, reject hate in all its forms, and stand firm in the face of intimidation and discrimination.”
Other Attorney General signatories on the letter included Rob Bonta from California, Aaron Ford of Nevada, Kristen Mayes of Arizona, and Brian Schwalb of the District of Columbia, among others. The letter stated that Target could use various state laws in “efforts to protect its staff and customers in the face of hate-based intimidation, harassment, threats, or attacks.”
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The letter said:
Indeed, all our states have laws protecting against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in places of public accommodation like Target stores. While these laws certainly do not create a legal obligation for retailers to offer any particular merchandise or create any particular displays, they do demand that customers be treated equally.
We’ve tacitly approved of the Federal government’s shockingly Orwellian infringements on the Constitutional Rights of Americans.
You are spot on in your assessment. I’ve watched this happen for years. Both the Right and the Left’s answer is to go thru the courts, when the proper response would be for business owners to tell the government to shove it.
Target has an obligation to its shareholders. That is all.
Gay attorney generals?
Daisy Chain.
Retailers main obligation is to their shareholders/owners. They have no definable duty to pander to any particular demographic.