So This Is How You Treat Your Guests, Target?

I cleaned out my purse and shredded my Redcard today.  My Beloved has called Target and expressed our concern and dismay over its restroom policy. "Thank you for your business," was all the voice on the other end could say. Target has officially stated that  

"Recent debate around proposed laws in several states has reignited a national conversation around inclusivity. So earlier this week, we reiterated with our team members where Target stands and how our beliefs are brought to life in how we serve our guests."

Inclusivity has been redefined. So has common sense and decency. I don't want my female loved ones and friends or myself exposed to a male stranger tending to his bathroom needs, and I don't want him watching them or me tend to ours through the cracks in the stall. Is this how you treat your guests, Target? I once was one. No longer. You've treated me very shamefully.

As Target's policy states, their leadership's beliefs are brought to life in how they serve their guests. And my beliefs are brought to life in where I shop.

Gender Matters, Target

Target, gender does matter. Your move to gender neutrality is not helpful.

It matters, first and foremost, because God created male and female. It's a beautiful distinction. It's a good plan. God's plans are always best when we embrace them and allow them to govern our lives.

It also matters because of the confusion, anxiety, substance abuse, depression and suicide attempts that go along with an absence of personal gender identity that's being cultivated in our culture. "Who am I? What am I?" I read an article today that advocates sexuality as a continuum from one gender to the other. Total, total confusion.

Helping people understand themselves does not lie in telling them that no one knows who or what they are, or that who or what they are today may not be who or what they are tomorrow, that they just have to figure out what feels good to them. No foundation. No building blocks. No sense of personal value being established. All of this only furthers the confusion. Advances the anxiety and stress. Deepens the depression. And devalues life itself.

But we don't have to allow the culture to push us or our children there. No matter what Target, or the media, or schools, or movies, or anyone else tries to program into our hearts and minds, we remind ourselves and teach our children that we are created in the image of God--male and female. Distinctive from one another. And God wants it that way. He said it's very good. Genders complement each other, reflecting characteristics of God. Gender neutrality does not. 

The basic issue is this: the marriage of man and woman reflects the relationship of Christ and His Bride, the Church. It's the picture of redeeming love. Without male or female, there is no man, there is no woman. Destroy that, and you destroy the image. This is Satan's unending, unrelenting, ages old attack. Recognize it for what it is. 

Remember, Target marketed "Holiday Trees" instead of "Christmas Trees" a few years back, and there was no "Merry Christmas" greetings allowed by their employees. This is a broader agenda for Target than gender neutrality. I tried to send a message to Target today on their website, but the 'submit' button had been deactivated. 

Are you really neutral, Target?