Posted on 06/07/2006 8:12:10 AM PDT by SmithL
BOSTON -- Macy's department store has removed a window display marking Boston's gay pride week after a group that opposes gay marriage complained it was offensive.
The display at the downtown Boston store featured two male mannequins, with one wearing a gay pride rainbow flag around his waist, next to a list of several planned Boston Pride Week events.
MassResistance, formerly the Article 8 Alliance, which has campaigned against gay marriage and gay-themed textbooks in public schools, objected to the display and said the mannequin wearing the flag had a "skirt" on, the Boston Herald reported.
The group posted pictures on its Web site and scores of its supporters complained to Macy's by phone and e-mail.
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Don't want men in skirts? Jeez, Phil Donahue wore one television years ago without a peep of protest. The right not to be offended seems stronger among conservatives than it used to be. At any rate, the display didn't show men kissing, getting married or riding bareback. The panic is overdone.
Quite right. I think what newspapers did re cartoons was understandable but regrettable. Macy's response was different only by degree. We intimidate commerce into being politically correct, then bitch about it.
Miata definitely borders on "gay", although I don't mean that disrespectfully to the vehicle - it is very impressive for its class.
The RX-8, however, is a very straight sports car.
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Then there was that children's performer who wore lipstick, can't think of his name. Not Soupy Sales but someone like that.
And on and on.
The process of softening everyone up for the big confusion.
What movie is that where Garbo says, "I remember when men and women . . . ahhh, never mind. . . ."
"The process of softening everyone up for the big confusion."
Yes, it's all part of a vast plan. I'm sure there's a well foamed-over parchment of the communist manifesto around here somewhere.
Wake up.
You really think a conspiratorial effort to allow individuals to live as they choose began in the 1940s and continues today? I prefer to think of it as progress, but then you have already surmised that I am not a social conservative.
Did you ever look at the guys who dress Macy's windows?
Paging the Cato Institute. You might have an overlooked donor here. And by the way, you might add prominent window displays of men with boobs wearing skirts to your list of things we should not care about. You forgot that one.
Small L libertarian, thank you. No open borders. As for legally being able to consume what one grows in one's own back yard without being arrested for befouling interstate commerce, well I'll leave such non sequiters to the rattled right. They weren't reasoned into their absolutes and cannot, then, be reasoned out of them.
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