I too am deciding to close my PayPal account as soon as a small balance that I have with Paypal credit is paid in full. It will be an inconvenience yes, but not as inconvenient as worrying whether or not one of my children will be exposed to the anatomy of an adult person of the opposite **bleep** in a public facility - where my children should be allowed privacy and dignity. Or my wife or myself for that matter. I guess common sense and societal norms have gone the way of the Dodo bird. I wonder if PayPal ever really considered whether the greater monetary loss would come from a small minority special-interest percentage of the population, or from the much greater percentage of it that does not accept having our rights trumped by those that believe they have "special" rights. Who do you think represents the larger portion, the LGBT community and advocates or the Christian and socially-conservative minded? Last I checked the transgender community was about 0.05% of the population. Even acknowledging that the total LGBT community is larger than that I still don't see fiscal sense in PayPal's decision. But it is your business to thrive or fail, but not with my money. And I will try to influence other like-minded people as opportunity presents itself. And this is not a bigoted post from one who indulges in "hate" speech as I'm sure the charge will be raised from some far corner of leftist America. No, I believe in treating everyone with dignity and respect in spite of our moral, ethical and/or political differences. But I must take a stand when common sense is discarded, and the bullying of the majority of the populace is taking place by masked corporate crusaders holding politicians hostage by trying to exert influence they have no right to. If only PayPal cared about the individual rights of Christians, Muslims, and others of faith as they do the LGBT community. And to think, in spite of what some would want us to think, this nation was founded on the principle that someone's right to exercise their religion was not to be interfered with. We are a shadow of what we were intended to be.
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