Posted on 12/08/2006 12:03:58 PM PST by MovementConservative
ARLINGTON, Fla. -- Sure they involve snowmen and reindeer, but they're not your typical Christmas ornaments. Friday, a group of young activists and one lawyer are working together to get the dirty decorations, known as Pornaments, off store shelves.
"We're here to protest what's happening in Spencer's gifts in the mall," said Pastor Clint Wilder.
More specifically, they're protesting the sale of Pornaments. They include Mr. and Mrs. North Pole, Frosty and even some reindeer in compromising poses. They're meant to hang on the Christmas tree.
"I think it's gone far enough and these kids are making a stand here," Wilder said.
Wilder is the pastor and youth group leader at the Carpenter's Shop Church in Arlington, near Jacksonville. He said the kids are taking a stand against Pornaments because they're marketed towards other children.
"A 5-year-old can buy it for his brother or sister and it's just absolutely ridiculous," Wilder said.
They aren't the only ones who feel this way about the off-color Christmas ornaments.
"I sent a letter to Spencer's gifts telling them what statute in Florida they are violating," attorney Jack Thompson said.
Thompson, a lawyer in Miami, is pushing to have all Pornaments removed from store shelves in the Sunshine State. He said it's against the law to keep pornographic material out in the open in a store where children shop.
Pastor Wilder said that's exactly why his youth group is protesting.
"They're just tired of having things marketed to their generation that promote sex and pornography," he said.
Spencer's has declined comment about the Pornaments, but so far they're still on store shelves in Orlando and around the state.
Spencer's has really gotten bad. I used to go in for a poster or some similar item for the kids. I refuse to go in the door anymore.
Anything sold in Spencer's Gifts is marketed towards children?
Some people have way too much time on their hands........
Spenser's has been doing this for years.
As long as Jack Thompson is on the case, this will all be fixed...
Is this Jack Thompson the same Miami attorney who had a feud with Janet Reno, as he had made public allegations regarding her alcohol abuse and other after hours activities?
People can do what they like in their homes.
But really, why put up a CHRISTMAS tree to then adorn it with "pornaments"?
Why not just put up a stripper pole instead?
"A 5-year-old can buy it for his brother or sister and it's just absolutely ridiculous," Wilder said.
If you let your 5 year old walk into Spencer's you're pretty much getting what you deserve. Don't these folks have something better to protest? I applaud them for not addressing it through the government but if they're just finding out about these ornaments they're about 20 years too late
Depends on whether we are discussing physical age or mental capacity.
Maybe Hillary can answer that...
there's no accounting for taste...
Do they have the T-shirt with the doe walking out of the woods saying "That's the last time I do that for two bucks?"
Who else shops there? By the time your 15 you've outgrown the bathroom humor they peddle.
The former Freeper himself?
This kind of hyperbole is just plain silly. To put it in terms of software development, I'd say "a five-year-old strolling into Spencer's to buy his brother or sister a Christmas tree ornament of Mr. and Mrs. Clause bumping uglies" is an "edge case at best."
To think these trashy people told me not to smoke in their store several years ago.I told,"Guess i don't need to spend my money here either",and walked out.I saw the shocked looks on their faces as i was leaving.
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