Who’s afraid of the Salvation Army?

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Washington Examiner

The temperature is dropping, which means when you head to the grocery store for your Thanksgiving turkey, you’ll likely pass by a couple of bell ringers for the Salvation Army. 

 

Every year, many of the charitable organization’s 3.3 million volunteers collect change to fund the group’s philanthropic efforts to help the poor and homeless. If you have a handful of change handy, you might drop it in one of the signature red buckets. But not if you’re Ellie Goulding. 

The singer has spent time volunteering for the Salvation Army, and she was poised to kick off its yearly Red Kettle Campaign by performing at a Dallas Cowboys halftime show later this month. Now facing backlash, she might have changed her mind. 

What, you ask, could be so controversial about kick-starting the Salvation Army’s annual campaign to raise funds for the homeless, which raked in more than $140 million in charitable donations last year? 

When Goulding posted about the partnership on her Instagram page, one fan commented that the Salvation Army is “extremely homo/transphobic.”