Target grapples with bomb threats in its Utah stores amid the LGBTQ Pride Month collection backash. Target Utah stores have been the target of bomb threats amid the giant retailer's LGBTQ Pride Month collection, which faced backlash from conservatives or right-wingers.
The CEO of Target Brian Cornell was asked about the backlash to woke capitalism last week, and his answer does not reflect the moves Target has made this week. He called woke campaigns “good business decisions,” that they’re “the right thing to do for society” and mentioned that it was helping drive.
Iowa Senate Republicans re-introduced a Religious Freedom Restoration bill that s been shelved in several previous legislative sessions. What it does is it says that government must be held to the highest standards before it can infringe on a person s free exercise of religion, said the bill s sponsor, Sen. Dennis Guth. Critics say the bill is yet another piece of legislation this year that targets the LGBTQ community. We ve seen 15 anti-LGBTQ bills introduced this year, and this was just the latest, and we re leaving the entire nation for the number of anti-LGBTQ bills, said Damian Thompson with Iowa Safe Schools, a nonprofit that represents 10,000 LGBTQ youth statewide. It s very distressing for many of our students. I ve seen firsthand mental health problems, risk of suicide, self-harm, etc, really accelerating this legislative session, because we re seeing problematic pieces of legislation like these ran all the time, said Thompson. It allows for discrimination against an