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Really? So they don't insist on prays before meals? Are they still rather obnoxious about anyone who isn't straight? E.g. do they still refuse help to gay and lesbian couple? I bet they still lobby against marriage equality.

A couple of pages with further information:
The Bilerico Project - Why You Shouldn't Donate to the Salvation Army Bell Ringers
Don't Donate to the Salvation Army @ The Stranger

That article is all about an employer-employee dispute it doesn't say "They explicitly refuse service to gays." as you have said.

That was a reference for the NYC story about soup kitchens, which was not about refusing service to gays.

For a longer list of how exactly Salvation Army manifests itself as a group of bigots, you might want to start here; but, really, Google and Wikipedia is all you need.

http://www.bilerico.com/2011/12/im_the_red_kettle_menace.php

I think at this point, society is seriously messed up.

lol how do you know when your life is too good? When you think advertising before you get entertained means society is seriously messed up.

Seriously, this is messed up society, and so is this, but having your entertainment delayed is not.

OH, think of the children!

But seriously - more rational deduction in early education including logic games and reasoning will help fight the absurd and assinie War on Intellectualism.

I play chess and Go with my daughter each chance I get.

Intelligence FTW! (Its amazing that one has to even say it...)

L:How in your judgment,at all,do you believe the word of God limits civil government?...It is not the role of civil government at any level,to house,clothe,feed or educate anybody.What do you think are the limits,if any,by God's word on any level,civil government ?

P:No,I think that would violate the whole principle,of you know, self-reliance,and our whole notion of individualism,which I think is solidly found in the New Testament,and therefore that responsibility, whether it is for ourselves,or for our families,it really falls upon the role of the parent...

L: May I assume you believe scripture is God's word,that it's inerrant and infallible ?

P:That is correct.

L: ...Well I'm also assuming you also believe that disobedience to God's word can bring,or does bring judgment upon nations and people?

P:(Hesitates)That is true,and,uh,sometimes the judgments aren't directly correlated,people have trouble figuring that out,but I think defiance of God's law will eventually bring havoc to a society.

Also featuring a Ron Paul America that doesn't even permit public education, and I'd also expect no public hospitals. Because god says so, or we'll be destroyed.

Why not? Paul also wants the government to stop all marriages, not just between gay people - between any people. Handing the governance of marriage entirely over to the church. I guess sometimes church and state can be separated in Paul Country, as long as the church gets the whole franchise.

Yeah, he's got that separation exactly backwards. Instead of following the Constitution's protection of the people from making a religious argument or action some kind of privileged category immune to American law or regulation, Paul says whatever superstition you imagine puts your actions beyond the reach of law. "We the People Act" he wrote for the House to send into American law:

Prohibits the Supreme Court and each Federal court from adjudicating any claim or relying on judicial decisions involving: (1) State or local laws, regulations, or policies concerning the free exercise or establishment of religion; (2) the right of privacy, including issues of sexual practices, orientation, or reproduction; or (3) the right to marry without regard to sex or sexual orientation where based upon equal protection of the laws.

In Paul Country, when the priest decides, the judge shuts up.

Especially anywhere Paul's power is in effect, but is out of sight of the American media (but sets a working precedent across the entire country), Paul's USA sets religious acts above the law, as in his Religious Freedom Restoration Act:

Amends the Federal judicial code to deny the district courts of the United States, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands and the United States Court of Federal Claims jurisdiction to hear or determine any case in which any requirement, prohibition, or other provision relating to religious freedo