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They don’t pay their female pastors. (Their wages get added to their husbands’ paychecks.)

They turn away gay people from homeless services and other programs.

The first claim requires their female pastors to be married to another member of the Salvation Army to even be possible, much less true, and none of the claims are sourced.

Gay homeless people have been turned away from their shelters.

Their Australian branch also has a history of child abuse dating back to the 1950′s. Which is really ironic, considering they smear-campaigned a guy and accused him of being a child molester because he… ran a conference on sex-positivity and sex education, and also happened to be into BDSM.

For years they had “MARRIAGE IS FOR STRAIGHTS ONLY” horseshit on their official website, but that’s since been taken down. Whether it was an epiphany of conscience or PR, I can’t say. But they’re still getting caught funding anti-gay stuff all of the time. Sometimes legislation restricting gay rights, sometimes conversion therapy organizations.

They threatened to close all of their soup kitchens in New York if they had to abide by civil rights laws.

And like most cults, if you marry outside of the Salvation Army, they kick you out.