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The Target PAC had already directly contributed to the campaigns of probably a couple dozen candidates for the Senate and House who are not supporters of same sex marriage. I see the PR value of righteous outrage, but I don't see actual underlying outrage.
But it will be nearly impossible to find a politically active corporation who has not provided money to a candidate opposed to same sex marriage. Looking at Evan Bayh, a Democrat opposed to gay marriage, if we're boycotting for supporting him then these are just some of the companies we need to avoid:
Blue Cross/Blue Shield
Members of the Plumbers/Pipefitters Union
Honeywell
BAE Systems
Mastercard
Intel
Pfizer
Ernst & Young
AT&T (I hope everybody's prepared to give up their iPhones or maybe just abandon Apple since they support AT&T who supports Bayh)
Cisco
General Electric (should we shun the member here who works for them or is that taking it too far)?
Qwest Communications
Eli Lilly (Pfizer and Eli Lilly? I hope nobody gets sick while boycotting)
Morgan Stanley
Gap Inc.
How about a moderate Republican like Olympia Snow? She's fine with civil unions but opposed same sex marriage. So we'll need to boycott
Verizon
Raytheon
Members of the American Physical Therapy Association
Union Pacific (do we just have to refuse to ship stuff by their trains or refuse to buy stuff shipped on their trains?)
Comcast
Members of the National Association of Realtors
AT&T
Bank of America
Members of the National Beer Wholesalers Association (now that's going to hit a lot of people where they live)
National Association of Broadcasters (uh oh, I suppose it doesn't count as a boycott if you just watch on Hulu)
Members of the American Association of Anesthesiologists (you can perform surgery doctor, but I hope you don't mind if I watch and comment).
Aetna
FedEx
Members of the American Bankers Association (on to credit unions, I guess).
Members of the Credit Union National Association (damn, can't boycott big banks by moving to credit unions).
Members of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association
Members of the Directors Guild of America (the random movie thoughts thread will go indie only)
Home Depot
Members of the American Dental Association (for some of us, this will be quite the relief)
Microsoft
Metlife
Members of the American Medical Association
Time Warner
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