Capitol Hill lawmakers react to the controversy over Target's Pride collection and decision to move some LGBT apparel following consumer outrage.
in South Carolina, Arkansas and Georgia were among the locations to move Pride sections in the wake of consumer backlash to try and avoid a"Bud Light situation," a Target insider told Fox News Digital last week. LGBT groups such as the National Black Justice Coalition blasted Target for relocating the merchandise in response to what the company claimed were"threats" as"deeply disappointing.
TARGET MAY HAVE ‘LOST CONTROL OF THE NARRATIVE’ AS FINANCIAL LOSSES, LGBT ANGER MOUNTS: CONSUMER RESEARCHERS"I think to some extent companies have the freedom to say whatever they want," Rubio told Fox News Digital.But obviously consumers are going to react.
"I don't understand this obsession with focusing on children, marketing products to children, entertainment to children, messaging to children. Using schools to target children. I think that's where parents are drawing the line. And by the way, if they were having heterosexual Pride month, where they were advocating sexualizing children from a heterosexual standpoint, I'd be equally offended at that notion.
"The bottom line is, everything that seems to be done in this country now is politics trying to divide," Manchin told Fox News Digital."It's not the country that's divided, it's basically the Congress here's divided and making you pick a side - which side are you on? There's only one side. The American side. So if you're going to be on a side, pick the American side.
"I think the lesson here is that all those fine American companies, who have CEOs with brains above a single-celled organism, ought to stay out of politics," Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., said.continues to face calls for boycotts after partnering with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney and the company has suffered its own steep financial losses.
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