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Charity bullied by Gays

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A campaign spearheaded by LGBT rights and women’s rights groups Change.org and AllOut.org, encouraging companies to drop their ties to the  Charity Give Back Group  (formerly the Christian Values Network), unsurprisingly has the Religious Right up in arms. The CGBG “operates a sort of online mall, donating a portion of each purchase to religious nonprofits,” Michelle Goldberg   explains . “Among them are conservative organizations like Focus on the Family , The Family Research Council , Promise Keepers , and a number of anti-ab Image via Wikipedia ortion crisis pregnancy centers .” The  campaign  to get businesses to opt out of CGBG’s program has been very successful, with over 200 companies such as Delta, Apple and Macy’s dropping out of the program so far. Focus on the Family is now  encouraging its members  to write to the companies that have ended their ties with CGBG. And today, the Family Research Council launched the “ Resist Discrimination ” campaign, demanding compani e