RQC: Franklin On A Soggy Roll

I really have no desire to keep on bringing up Franklin Graham and his shenanigans, trust me, but the man just won't stop with the stupid. He's like a crazy uncle who's telling you there's a bugging device in the potato salad at the family Memorial Day picnic. You really do try to ignore him, but he makes it almost impossible to do it.

False:
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Truth, thanks to comments left on forums:

It actually IS the weather. Stores always stock items early. Like Xmas in September. Target stocked their summer clothes in March, and it wasn't until mid-May that warm weather hit most of the country.

Correlation is not causation. That's probably why Walmart (Christian founded and based), Sears, Costco, Kohl's, Macy's & Nordstrom ALL had their stock prices drop between 4/27 and 4/29 - the exact same time frame that anti-gay hate group AFA is citing to claim their boycott was a success against Target stores. Apparently so successful that it caused EVERY SINGLE other retailer to suffer a similar drop over the same period.

*In case you can't link, Franklin and other religious conservative groups called a boycott on Target department stores because of there stance on transgenders using bathrooms. Stock prices did fall, but Target corporate said it had nothing to due with the boycott and cited the reason above. These boycotts have actually helped companies. When a boycott was called on Starbucks for their support of gay marriage, stock prices rose 7.6%. When Albert Mohler called a boycott on Disney (all these companies I name here had a boycott in relation to the LGBTQ). the boycott was an utter failure with Robert Parham, founder and former executive director of Baptist Center for Ethics, admitting:

"Boycotts are a proven and noble approach to social change, but only when leaders are prudent about their strategy and committed to their cause. Boycotts rooted in moral self-righteousness and lacking moral endurance wash away like sandcastles on a beach.

As for ending the failed boycott (on Disney), the SBC has two paths. One way is to redefine the boycott. The SBC can claim success by saying it faithfully condemned sin, defended the American family and testified to God’s will. Emphasizing spiritual matters instead of economic ones, faithfulness instead of effectiveness, the boycott will be declared a victory.

Another way is silence. Unable to admit failure, Southern Baptist leaders will ignore their earlier pontifical threats and hope that rank-and-file church members forget their bombastic statements. Like the three monkeys, SBC leaders will speak no failure, see no failure and hear no failure. The boycott will quietly disappear from the SBC agenda.

The moral of the story may be that self-righteous chest-thumping brings no real social change."