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....
(Excerpt) Read more at sg.news.yahoo.com ...
My fair city is suffering its annual “Pride Parade” today. You know just whose pride that is referring to. Here in the South the faggies realized “Gay Pride Parade” doesn’t sell very well.
A counterdemonstration might consist of waving Barilla boxes. If they jump ugly, pelt them with dry cannelloni.
Inform gay coworkers that your lunch pasta salad was made with Barilla.
Put an empty Barilla box in your car’s back window, but take it with you afterward. Tolerant faggies love to key unoccupied cars they disagree with.
“Ours is a classic family where the woman plays a fundamental role,” he said....
You mean they couldn’t do an ad where the traditional female role is played by a guy who obviously “catches” instead? /sarc
We usually buy Barilla. It’s good stuff. Now, we’ll buy it exclusively.
Time for a Barilla Buy-cott!
I think I’ll go buy some Barilla pasta today.
Buon Appetilla......oops, Buon Appetito !
Leni
Droll... :-D
I understand. It was late on a Friday night, a few adult beverages were consumed, you get on the internet, reveal too much personal information and soon regret it and try to backtrack.
If you acn’t eat it, you can maybe donate it to the Salvation Army, for example.
When it comes to sex, he's a huge proponent of the "Italian position"...
"Man on top; woman in the kitchen!
LMAO.. Great stuff girl.. :)
Go to hell.
I will be sure to buy this man product from now on. I am sick and tired of perverts telling me how I must live my life.
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Good time to stock up! :-)
Or how about when Obama bowed before the Saudi King, yes the same man who orders homosexuals caught in the act executed by hanging in public. Why homosexuals and leftists in general cannot be offended by this seemingly disturbing gesture to someone that the left should view as close to Hitler I have no idea.
ROFLMAO!!!!
btw, obamatollah kneeled and bowed before his muslime leader.
I bet you have.
5.56mm
Leni
It was flying if the shelves in my supermarket today, which is in MA.
As far as I am concerned we have gays and homosexuals. The gays just want to be left alone to do whatever it is they want. The latter are the the militant types we see here. I personally know both types and refuse to help the latter I any way.
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