One Million Moms group targets JCPenney for same-sex ad.

[sinkingfeeling]

http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/bizarre&id=8647906

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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A conservative mothers group is attacking JCPenney for its new Mother's Day ad that features a lesbian couple with their two daughters.


The group One Million Moms is calling for a boycott of the retailer. They claim the company is quote taking sides in an ongoing cultural war.

Change.org has a petition to support JC Penney here:
https://www.change.org/petitions/jc-penney-we-support-your-use-of-all-families-please-keep-the-may-catalog-as-it-is

[unreadierLizard]

1. I'm sorry,

But these people really get on my nerves with all of their stupidity involving stores, advertisements, and the like.

I wish they would just go away.

[Initech]

20. I agree - they exist only to spread hate and bigotry.

[gratuitous]

2. Good luck to the "million" moms

Freedom of speech and the freedom to advocate for your point of view is the indispensable Right in the Constitution. I fully support their right to advocate for their point of view, and I suspect they won't have the slightest influence with JC Penney, because despite their grandiose self-bestowed title, I sincerely doubt that One Million Moms represents much beyond their paid mouthpieces, fleecing the gullible and desperately trying to stir up hatred and division.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

3. That's not what this looks like at all.

It looks like three generations of a family with a random aunt thrown in. Did JCP specifically say that's what this is supposed to be? Also, who cares if it is same sex couples. They're part of their demographic. Are these same idiot moms pissed when the ad is in Spanish and the target audience is a Latino family? They got egg on their face when they got angry at Ellen for being the spokesperson, what makes them think they're going to fair much better getting angry about this? They're idiots. So some kids have two moms. Get over it. How does that affect your life in anyway? Just shut up. If you're so worried about your kid getting exposed to something, lock them in the basement if you're so scared to have to explain something to your kid because that's the only way to keep them "safe" from ideals different than your own. A JCP ad is not going to make your kid gay. If your kid is gay, he was gay from the beginning. Why are people so naive and ridiculous? I just really don't get it!

[patrice]

4. K&R

[newspeak]

5. come on! are there really a million moms?

or are they making that shite up? If there so against penney's, I think it's time for another buying trip. Oh, and I love ellen-witty, bright, funny-unlike these bozos.

[unreadierLizard]

6. I bet it's just one woman stuck in the 60's

working from a keyboard.

[patrice]

11. All of my household purchases will be from JCP until further notice.

Those are probably virtual "moms". Digits are easily flipped. & Even if there are a million whatever they are, minorities should not be allowed to vote out the rights of others.

[richmwill]

12. Not nearly a million.

Their Facebook page has 46,652 "Likes". A tad short of a million, obviously.

[dmr]

7. The only ones making it a war are bigots using

their God as reason to be so fucking ignorant & cruel.

I stand beside Penney, & any other institution who stand with compassion & humanity.

I'll not only sign the petition, but I'll write another letter to Penney supporting them.

[GeorgeGist]

8. Assuming that JCP is taking sides ...

Good For Them.

[BlueToTheBone]

9. All tens of those "million moms"

are outraged! Outraged I tell you!

[arcane1]

10. I would have never guessed that this was a lesbian couple

It looks like a mom with hr daughters and grand-daughters to me

[bluesbassman]

15. Agreed. Even prepared to see some kind of specific lesbian reference, that's not where my mind went.

It just looks like family or friends.

How disturbed and irrational are these people that they immediately go to gay when seeing something like this?

And just to be clear, when I said specific lesbian reference, I meant something along the lines of a passionate kiss, etc., and for the record, it would not bother me if it was. They use hetero models kissing in ads, why not gay?

[jp11]

13. My new group Five Million Humans disagrees with One Million Moms.

[davsand]

14. They forgot the "I'm with the Lesbian" T-shirts in that ad.

I looked at the picture and saw nothing more than affection. Wow. I guess I'm just naive not to realize they are all Lesbians...





Laura

[LynneSin]

16. I'm targeting One Million Moms for fricking fraud

Because clearly their numbers don't even come close to a million. It's just an organization of a few hundred miserable women who probably have shitty homelife with kids & husbands who ignore them so they think they somehow have the right to make others miserable too.

[hamsterjill]

36. And they're just pissed off because they are expected to be "submissive".

n/t

[LynneSin]

17. BTW does the ad actually say the women are a lesbian couple

or are these dimwitted 'moms' just assuming that 2 grown women in a clothing store ad must mean they are lesbians.

[PatSeg]

19. I was thinking the same thing

I would have just thought they were sisters or friends, though I probably wouldn't have thought about it at all, because I'm not looking for anything.

Edit to add: The two on the far right look like mother and daughter, a typical Mother's Day type ad showing several generations.

[LynneSin]

21. I read a comment somewhere that they both had wedding rings on but...

that still doesn't mean they are a lesbian couple. Honestly that photo could be viewed many ways. It could be sisters hanging out together, Maybe one of the women is the grandmother and it's her daughters and granddaughters. Maybe it's 3 friends hanging out. I'm a straight woman but I have been known to hug my female friends.

The photo is what you make of it. I probably would have never thought 'lesbian couple' of someone hadn't said that's what it was. I would have thought a bunch of women hanging out and personally not given a rat's ass what their sexual relationships might be.

[PatSeg]

24. I just edited my comment

after looking at the picture again. It looks like a grandmother and mother on the right, which is something we see in ads every year around Mother's Day.

[left is right]

26. I was just about to comment on this myself

I couldn’t see anything that said lesbian in that grouping, I thought multigenerational close-knit family

[PatSeg]

27. These women need to get a life

or a hobby or a job or a CLUE!

[sinkingfeeling]

32. Yes. Huffingtonpost has an enlarged view of ad text.

[LynneSin]

34. I hadn't seen what the text says

to be honest, I probably wouldn't have noticed had someone not pointed it out and made a stink out of it.

[PatSeg]

18. Oh, not again

Didn't they learn anything the last time they called for a boycott on JCPenney? All they did was bring a lot of favorable publicity to Penneys and Ellen Degeneres as well. I think Penneys is probably loving these "moms".

[LynneSin]

22. Penney's actually did pretty well with the boycot

since many progressives opted to support JCP.

[PatSeg]

25. Penneys answer to a "Million Moms"

when they complained about Penneys advertising on Ellen Degeneres was a series of expensive ads featuring Ellen Degeneres! I think "Moms" is really pissed now.

[Oilwellian]

33. And right after JCP said they would continue...

advertising on the Ellen Degeneres show, the hubster and I bought each other watches at JCP for Valentines Day. We told the clerk we chose JCP because of their willingness to stand up to the fundy fringe in this country.

This latest attack is ridiculous.

[PatSeg]

37. That's so cool

I'll bet they got a lot of positive responses.

I wonder who the "Moms" think watches Ellen's show. Its a very popular daytime program.

[redqueen]

23. If these women went after Hardees for using T&A to sell burgers

I might consider taking them seriously.

Their priorities are obviously laughable.

[lsewpershad]

28. Yeh sure

they have a million registered members.....probably as many members as the vets who are now trying to swiftboat the President.

[hifiguy]

29. I am sure that JCP has done their market research, and that

it shows there is more upside than down to being gay-friendly.

This battalion of the keyboard commandos will fail miserably, as usual. Idiots.

[sinkingfeeling]

30. The ad copy in the green area to the right, says "Wendi and her partner Maggie,

along with their daughters."

See the Huffingtonpost article.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/03/one-million-moms-jc-penney-lesbian-photo_n_1474086.html

[dana_b]

31. really? They have nothing better to do with their lives?

Well I haven't been to JC Pennys in a while but I think its time to stop in.

[sarcasmo]

35. Bigots.

[azurnoir]

38. kudo's to JC Penny and I onder if One Million Moms

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