Seattle retail chain bans Salvation Army bells outside its stores, because LGBTQs said...

How far over the cliff of insanity have the Left and its allies dragged this nation?  Consider this story, from a leftist paper in Seattle:

The Salvation Army is one of the largest providers of homeless shelters, food banks and other social services in the world.  Each Christmas for decades, bell-ringing volunteers solicit donations for the group's work outside major department stores. 

For over 20 years the Nordstrom chain has participated.  But this year the owners told the Salvation Army they would no longer allow the charity's bell ringers to solicit in front of its stores.

Nordstrom spokeswoman Jennifer Walker refused to explain the reasons for banning the charity, but a man who's been a bell-ringer outside Nordstrom's for 18 years said owner Jamie Nordstrom told him "LGBTQ employees said the Salvation Army’s presence outside their stores made them uncomfortable."

Let that sink in for a minute:  The gay mafia hates Christianity and most Christian organizations with a passion, so they've gotten Nordstroms to ban the Salvation Army (a Christian organization) from their stores.  Nordstroms knows that if they didn't roll over for the gay mafia they'd be facing furious protesters in no time.  By contrast, the owner know the Salvation Army will just bow and obey.

Homosexual activists claim the Salvation Army "espouses a theology that sees marriage as between a man and a woman."   In response, the SA has tried to sooth the gay mafia, in part by setting up a Las Vegas shelter for trannies.   Of course nothing but total surrender will placate the gay mafia, and some gays have urged people to stop donating to the Salvation Army.

After all, the mafia succeeded in forcing Chick-fil-A to stop donating to the Salvation Army. 

But wait...it gets better: 

The acting director of Seattle’s Human Services Department claims that "the community" has "expressed concerns" that shelters owned and run by the Salvation Army "are not safe for LBGTQ persons."  So the city will do an “equity audit” to decide whether to end contracts with the Salvation Army to operate homeless shelters.

Here's my suggestion:  The Salvation Army should simply end all activity in Seattle and King County.  All of it.  Stop operating in any city or state whose moronic officials and pols demand that you not hold beliefs they don't like.  The moronic officials and pols in Seattle don't want you there, so leave.  They'll be fine, and the homeless won't suffer a bit--or at least no one with the city will ever admit it, cuz that would mean..."Oooh, maybe we shouldn't have demanded that every charity agency drop beliefs we proggies don't like."

And they'll never say that.  So...win-win.