Last Thursday, the organizations behind the campaign to get CVS to finally stop locking up their condoms held a rally in front of a CVS in Dupont Circle of Washington, DC. As we've detailed extensively, despite the fact that Walgreens and RiteAid have both made national policies to keep condoms unlocked, CVS has failed to do so. In fact, a recent study shows that while CVS has open condom access in wealthier communites, it keeps their condoms locked up in communities of color, areas that typically have higher rates of STD/HIV.

Yet Amanda Carpenter of the Washington Times chose to totally distort the entire purpose of the campaign in her column last Friday:

Pro-union organizations are waging war on a major pharmacy chain because it keeps condoms locked up in some of its stores.

But not the store they chose for a protest Thursday.

Change to Win, a coalition of labor organizations, held a news conference outside a Dupont Circle CVS on Thursday urging the drugstore to enact a corporate policy of keeping condoms unlocked at all times.

However, when The Washington Times called the store at 6 Dupont Circle NW, the person who took the call, who declined to be named, said that store's condoms are not locked up. A trip to the store later confirmed this.

Also, given that Change to Win's "CureCVS" accuses the drugstore of limiting access to HIV/AIDS prevention in predominantly minority areas, it seems odd to choose a wealthy neighborhood known as a gay mecca to make the point.