{"id":1447,"date":"2005-01-28T13:50:51","date_gmt":"2005-01-28T18:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/01\/walmart_hearts_gays\/"},"modified":"2005-01-28T13:50:51","modified_gmt":"2005-01-28T18:50:51","slug":"walmart_hearts_gays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/01\/walmart_hearts_gays\/","title":{"rendered":"Wal-Mart Hearts Gays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Change in one policy at nation's largest employer expands to include workers' same-sex partners\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/news\/archive\/2005\/01\/28\/financial0800EST0036.DTL\">Oh my<\/a>!  What will they say in Red State America?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The nation&#8217;s largest employer is expanding the definition of &#8220;immediate family&#8221; in its ethics policy to include an employee&#8217;s same-sex partner.<br \/>\nThe Wal-Mart Stores Inc. policy change &#8212; disclosed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday &#8212; accounts for the laws in some states that recognize domestic partnerships and civil unions, officials said.<br \/>\nCompany spokesman Gus Whitcomb on Thursday declined to say if the change would affect employee benefits, or whether it meant Wal-Mart was taking a position on the issue of same-sex marriage or civil unions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In practice I&#8217;m not sure how much difference this will make&#8211;how many Wal-Mart employees get benefits anyway?  But I&#8217;m sure this will be good for some noisy protests and boycotts.  Sad thing is that many would-be boycotters will have to drive a <i>long<\/i> way to shop somewhere else since all the other stores were driven out of business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/01\/walmart_hearts_gays\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Wal-Mart Hearts Gays\"><p>Oh my! What will they say in Red State America? The nation&#8217;s largest employer is expanding the definition of &#8220;immediate family&#8221; in its ethics policy to include an employee&#8217;s same-sex partner. The Wal-Mart Stores Inc. policy change &#8212; disclosed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday &#8212; accounts for the laws [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}