So what's so bad about The Salvation Army anyway?

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22. There are some good reasons to be angry with the Salvation Army

The Salvation Army is a Christian Missionary organization dedicated to spreading its versions of its religion. In order to forward this goal, it performs bureaucratic functions for the government and for americans who donate money to it. Its main function, in this sense, is to distribute government and other donated money to people as it sees fit and to take the lion's share of the credit for the resources it distributes.

It uses the goodwill earned by its proximal position in the distribution of charity to promote its particular brand of religion. It's particular brand of religion is discriminatory toward gays, lesbians, and atheists among others. It also has used its resources to actively lobby for the ability of organizations to engage in discriminatory hiring practices while receiving significant government funding. It did this while being an organization that wished to continue its discriminatory hiring practices while receiving significant government funding.

Approving of charity does not require a person to approve of it's fucking middle managers. The Salvation Army is one of the biggest of those middle managers. It's a rent-seeking organization dedicated to diverting some portion of the meager flow of charitable resources into missionary work.

Other than that, it's awesome. Why give to any of the myriad other charities that don't do those odious things when you can send to your money to the theocratic middle men with the cute red kettles?