AmazonSmile lets shoppers donate to anti-LGBTQ groups

metroweekly.com:

Open Democracy, more than 40 U.S.-based organizations that oppose LGBTQ rights or support conversion therapy efforts were listed on AmazonSmile, which allows Amazon customers to donate 0.5% of eligible purchases to charities of their choice.Among these beneficiaries of AmazonSmile’s charitable giving program are:Both Alliance Defending Freedom and the Family Research Council were previously removed from the AmazonSmile program after controversy over their anti-LGBTQ statements and actions led some to object, including the Southern Poverty Law Center, which labeled both organizations as “hate groups.”But earlier this year, under intense questioning from congressional Republicans — who used antitrust hearings to lambaste Amazon for allegedly.