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Macy's Removes Gay Pride Display
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| 6/7/6
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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; macys
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Did y'all say something to Macy's?
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posted on
06/07/2006 8:12:12 AM PDT
by
SmithL
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To: SmithL
The gay agenda fanatics at it again.
What on earth is Macy's doing putting a guy with a skirt in their display window anyways?
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posted on
06/07/2006 8:16:29 AM PDT
by
Jameison
To: SmithL; All
Disney automatically rotaits the screen saver on employee computers. This week, the same week as the Federal Marriage Amendment vote, some disney techies decided that a "homosexual pride" theme would be just what the cubicle bound desk staff needed to see.
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posted on
06/07/2006 8:16:41 AM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: SmithL
Sounds like Macy's management is a little smarter than Ford's.
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posted on
06/07/2006 8:24:07 AM PDT
by
RoadTest
(For the love of money is the root of all evil - I Timothy 6:10)
To: Reed Rothchild
Coulda put panties on his head as well...
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posted on
06/07/2006 8:26:19 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll. 17,400+ snide replies and counting!)
To: Jameison
Next time I read about newspapers censoring cartoons because of Muslim pressure, I'll remember Macy's and tell myself it's a good thing.
7
posted on
06/07/2006 8:49:00 AM PDT
by
gcruse
(http://gcruse.typepad.com)
To: gcruse
Apples to oranges.
Not the same.
8
posted on
06/07/2006 8:51:02 AM PDT
by
Jameison
To: Jameison
Self-censorship of legal activity because of protesting. It's the same in both cases.
9
posted on
06/07/2006 8:54:32 AM PDT
by
gcruse
(http://gcruse.typepad.com)
To: SmithL
To: gcruse
Self censorship?
Is that what you call the rabid threats to murder, not just in this country, but in Europe and all over the world, journalists who dared to publish those Mohamed cartoons?
They are not EVEN CLOSE to being the same.
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posted on
06/07/2006 8:59:12 AM PDT
by
Jameison
To: CheneyChick
I bet the black mannequin is glad he's been placed in the back!
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posted on
06/07/2006 8:59:14 AM PDT
by
Solamente
(Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out...)
To: SmithL
Gay pride? Why are people proud of the their sexual preferences?
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posted on
06/07/2006 9:00:19 AM PDT
by
Protagoras
("A real decision is measured by the fact that you have taken a new action"... Tony Robbins)
To: CheneyChick
sheesh.....what's with the boobs?
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posted on
06/07/2006 9:01:14 AM PDT
by
goodnesswins
( "the left can only take power through deception." (and it seems Hillary & Company are the masters)
To: Jameison
You know, you have a point. Self-censorship under threat of murder might be understandable. To censor oneself because of fringe protest alone is more of a cowardly act.
The result is the same, tho.
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posted on
06/07/2006 9:02:44 AM PDT
by
gcruse
(http://gcruse.typepad.com)
To: SmithL
Meanwhile, Mayor Tom "Doofus" Menino is instructing the city to sue the states of Georgia and New Hampshire for lawfully selling guns to their states' residents. Liberalism is truly is a mental desease.
To: gcruse
"You know, you have a point. Self-censorship under threat of murder might be understandable. "
No.
Not from a bunch of people (journalists), who cheerfully publish details of CIA apprehension and detain operations of Al Quaeda in Europe, and expose our people to the danger of getting blown up by Islamic vermin over there and over here.
"To censor oneself because of fringe protest alone is more of a cowardly act. "
Gay marriage has been voted down in every single state it's come up for a referendum, even in ultra liberal Oregon.
20 states so far.
There is nothing "fringe" about those protesting about having gay propaganda imposed on an unwary public and children.
This is America.
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posted on
06/07/2006 9:15:33 AM PDT
by
Jameison
To: Jameison
I thought "You have the right to not be offended" was a minority/leftist thing. Looks like it's creeping out of its sewer.
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posted on
06/07/2006 9:17:36 AM PDT
by
gcruse
(http://gcruse.typepad.com)
To: goodnesswins
A good point. They are Transgendered mannequins. The Lesbian and ACLU bleephole on WRKO kept making references to the Heterosexual mannequins. Would those be the headless torsos wearing Polo shirts? MassResistance was labled by the ACLU rep as being the voice of the past. NO, we're the voice of natural history. Good work Brian C.
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posted on
06/07/2006 9:21:07 AM PDT
by
massgopguy
(massgopguy)
To: gcruse
"I thought "You have the right to not be offended" was a minority/leftist thing"
I don't want gay acts (men kissing etc) in front of my children.
I don't want men in skirts at Macy's when I go shopping.
I have the right to, and will protest strongly if Macy's comes up with stuff of that nature .
Macy's of course has the right to continue to keep that kind of stuff there.
Equally if they don't remove what I find offensive, I have the right to simply stop shopping there.
It's called freedom of choice.
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posted on
06/07/2006 9:26:06 AM PDT
by
Jameison
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