Posted on 02/11/2012 3:55:44 AM PST by Kaslin
Every Halloween, New York City residents are greeted by homosexual parade marchers dressed to impress bystanders with a message that "gay is good." Some folks take the parade in stride, some are offended by more than a few outrageous displays, and others simply could not care less.
That parade is a microcosm of how Americans, in general, feel about the gay movement. And those who oppose the in-your-face tactics of some homosexuals do have a legitimate gripe. They simply want to be left alone. They don't want to see explicit displays in public that offend their moral or religious point of view.
Enter Ellen DeGeneres and JCPenney. The Texas-based department store has hired DeGeneres as a spokesperson, and that is royally teeing off a conservative group called "One Million Moms." On their website, they are calling for JCPenney to "replace Ellen DeGeneres as their new spokesperson immediately and remain neutral in the culture war."
The Moms go on to say DeGeneres is not a "true representative" of the type of families that shop at JCPenney.
While I sympathize with folks not wanting to deal with homosexuality, I think the Moms are wrong. DeGeneres is an American citizen. She has committed no crime. If she wants to promote equality for gays or gay marriage, that is her constitutional right. She should not be dismissed from anything.
But the Moms have rights, too. They don't have to shop at JCPenney if they believe the company does not hold their values, and they are doing nothing wrong by making their disenchantment known. As long as they don't try to hurt DeGeneres or any other individual, I have no problem with the Moms.
In the 1950s, Sen. Joseph McCarthy got a whole bunch of Americans fired from jobs because he said they were communists. There was even a blacklist in Hollywood that banished perceived leftwing job seekers from employment in the entertainment industry. That was awful and flat-out un-American. In this country, you have a right to be a communist, and nobody should punish anyone for their political beliefs.
In my opinion, Kim Kardashian is a far worse role model than Ellen, and the Million Moms might want to check that out. Kardashian is all over the media peddling an aggressively self-involved image that is anything but healthy for teenage girls. In fact, there are scores of media people who are celebrated for bad behavior. If the Moms want to be consistent in their outrage about dubious behavior, they are going to be very busy.
So let's leave Ellen alone and allow the marketplace to dictate exactly what Americans believe is worthy. That is the American way. Witch-hunting against certain people and groups is not.
Using Ellen is an endorsement on the gay community and a slap at traditional values.
The Kardashian example is accurate that she’s a bad example, but not the same.
“So let’s leave Ellen alone and allow the marketplace to dictate exactly what Americans believe is worthy. “
Isn’t that what the calls to boycott JC Penney’s is, the free market deciding not to support a business.
And it's thinking like this that has led us to having "hate crime" laws against speaking about homosexuality.
I don’t consider myself a witch-hunter. I agree with the million moms in that JCP didn’t need to hire a spokesman so readily identifiable with a controversial cause. Would they have hired Tim Tebow? JCP, as far as I’m concerned, had finally found itself in the battle for the buck. Always clean. Always fresh. Awash with new ideas and color and price and sales. Why try to attract a group that would force another group away? That particular group shops there anyway. Why do we have to even notice? If this becomes a huge issue, JCP couldn’t take the financial hit. Gays couldn’t carry them and straight families would lose a great store in a deliberate, but necessary, permanent boycott. Nothing should be in our face.
Homosexuality is a lifestyle choice, not normal behavior. Sick and tired of the whole gay agenda. I will no longer buy from JC Penny’s.
What BOR says in the above paragraph is the key "factor" in my dislike for him, and refusal to ever watch his show. So he thinks Joe McCarthy is "un-American" yet adores Robert F. Kennedy? Why would I help the ratings of a liberal like that?
These companies that think appealing to the tiny minority of sexual deviants, or even the larger ethnic minority groups, assume that “regular” people will not react; in this economy people are more cost-conscious than ever, and with these larger stores already on the ropes from the Wal-Mart expansion, they are foolish to give the “many” people any reason to avoid them by catering to the “few”.
How much children’s clothing do they think the perverts will buy?
God’s way, or mans way. Sadly, everything is acceptable today. People want it their way. God says it’s an abomination, period.
I won't even buy that make-up that Ellen pushes. I don't even dislike her, but why help push the gay agenda that is RUINING this country. I wouldn't support a child abuser, a pedophile or someone like Alec Baldwin. MOney TALKS.....I WAS going to go see the new JCP, but not now.
“In this country, you have a right to be a communist”
Actually I have a problem with an ideology which has a stated goal of destroying our Constitutional form of government, destroying all Judeo-Christian morality, calling evil good and good evil.
If those are your goals (Communist/Islam/Homosexual, etc.) then you are my enemy.
The other day, he actually argued it was correct for the State to decide what was “best” for a child.
“In the 1950s, Sen. Joseph McCarthy got a whole bunch of Americans fired from jobs because he said they were communists.”
This guys is such a loser. McCarthy had access to classified information (since disclosed). He got them fired because THEY WERE communists - every one of them.
When my grandson asked me what I had against BOR, I told him that I had heard him say the opposite of what For had just said ‘in the news’ (and I don’t remember what it was - it was a loooooong time ago -) and his dispute with Ann over whether Joe was in the House or the Senate. I don’t listen to BOR, or shep, or jerry rivers, or any other of the lib lovers on Fox.
I’m not sure where to come down on this one: Are we talking Lipstick Lesbians or Flannel Shirt Lesbians?
It is un-American for a private company to hire/fire people based on their political or moral beliefs? Wrong, Mr. O'Reilly. Being American means freedom...freedom from government or anyone else telling me who I must employ.
Large companies, like JCP, have massive advertising budgets and divisions to decide how to spend their $$$.
They pretty much live or die, based upon how their public image is perceived through this advertising and target the market that might bring them the most profit. Best of luck to JCP, hope it works well for you.(without me)
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