Posted on 09/27/2013 9:58:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
U.S. and international gay rights supporters called on Friday for a boycott of Italian pasta maker Barilla, whose chairman said he would never feature a gay family in its advertising.
The comments sparked a firestorm of protest on social media and resulted in online petitions in English, German and Italian, including one by Italian playwright and Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo.
A MoveOn.org petition started by Beth Allen, a Takoma Park, Maryland, mother of two and a lesbian, garnered 85,000 signatures by Friday evening. (Petition: http://r.reuters.com/paz43v)
"Guido Barilla made it clear how he felt about families like mine by saying that he'd never show gay families in advertisements for Barilla," Allen said in her petition.
"He said that gays could eat another pasta if they didn't like his message. I'm taking him up on that and so should you," she said.
Chairman Guido Barilla, 55, sparked the controversy with comments on Wednesday to an Italian radio station.
"I would never do (a commercial) with a homosexual family, not for lack of respect but because we don't agree with them. Ours is a classic family where the woman plays a fundamental role," he said....
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Same wit Russia. Not a peep from them about gays getting arrested, tear gassed, etc. by police. I guess they couldn’t figure out a way to boycott Putin.
More like, Russia and especially Putin, has no problem with pushing the limits against us or other modern nations.
There’s no problem with homosexuality in Russia, don’t walk outside naked or clad in a thong, and they really don’t care. Don’t walk out as a transvestite, and they really don’t care. That’s the problem with Russia, there’s not some outright pogrom in the place, like there is in the Middle East, plus, I’m pretty sure the people wanting to Boycott the Olympics in Russia will eventually just cave and let the Olympics happen.
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