Welcome to Variety Podcast. I'm your host, Felicia Mason-Himer, and I am here to

teach you how to know what you believe, to live it boldly, and to communicate it

graciously to the world around you. I believe that women are ready to go deeper in

their faith than ever before, and they don't have to go to seminary to do it. I am

so glad you're here, and I hope you'll join me on this journey because every

woman is a theologian. Hi friends and welcome back to Variety Podcast. Today

we're diving into a very controversial topic. We're going to be addressing the

hullabaloo surrounding target, and whether Christians should boycott target,

and stores like it. So when I was researching for this episode, I had several

things I knew I wanted to address, and of course, wanted to look deeply at

scripture in terms of how to understand its passages about things like this. And

because scripture doesn't speak directly to boycotting, since that term did not

exist yet, we have to think about the principles that are at play. What's the

principle behind this boycott? And well, how should we think about that as

Christians? So if you are not aware, want to quick just give you a little bit of an

overall update on what we're talking about here. So a couple of weeks ago,

before Pride Month launched, Pride Month is in June, which celebrates the LGBTQ

community. Target came out with a line of Pride

items. Now this is not new. Target has come out with Pride items every single

year. They are known for supporting LGBTQ causes,

but what's different this time is that they specifically were marketing bathing suits

that were designed for transgender individuals. On top of this, they also were promoting

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