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IKEA’s Polish Catalogue Introduces “Ian and Steve” as a Model of the New Family
www.lifesitenews.com ^ | December 1, 2008 | Hilary White

Posted on 12/01/2008 1:24:26 PM PST by voiceinthewind

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1 posted on 12/01/2008 1:24:26 PM PST by voiceinthewind
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To: voiceinthewind; Religion Moderator

Whoops, there is an I missing from the title. Could you fix that? It should read IKEA’s. Sorry.


2 posted on 12/01/2008 1:26:49 PM PST by voiceinthewind
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To: voiceinthewind

Maybe they meant it as a Polish joke?


3 posted on 12/01/2008 1:27:26 PM PST by mnehring
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No big surprise. Last time I went shopping at IKEA, at least 25% of the couples there appeared to be homosexuals.

I hate IKEA, not because of the homosexuals, but because their furniture sucks.


4 posted on 12/01/2008 1:27:26 PM PST by rom (Voted for Ron Paul in the primary. Voted against Obama in the general and FOR Palin.)
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To: voiceinthewind
Nevertheless, the IKEA spokesman in Poland, Karolina Horoszczaková, said that homosexuals are part of modern society and the company will not change the ad. “Homosexuality is one of the elements of life in modern society. Our company cannot ignore this.”

So are teen pregnancy, drug addiction, internet addiction, and identity theft. When will their ad campaigns take these facts of life into consideration?

5 posted on 12/01/2008 1:28:22 PM PST by weegee (Sec. of State Clinton. What kind of change is it to keep the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton Oligarchy?)
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To: voiceinthewind

Hi Ian, Hi Steve.

You should get better furniture.


6 posted on 12/01/2008 1:32:57 PM PST by schwingdoc
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To: voiceinthewind
“Ian and Steve,” the ad says, have no intention of having children, but enjoy their “command centre” IKEA kitchen and herb garden.

The ad tells customers, “Family life is changing ... Welcome to the new era.”

"Family life". A couple is not a family.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/family

"parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not."

"the children of one person or one couple collectively: We want a large family."

"the spouse and children of one person: We're taking the family on vacation next week."

"any group of persons closely related by blood, as parents, children, uncles, aunts, and cousins: to marry into a socially prominent family."

"all those persons considered as descendants of a common progenitor."

And then it gets into households that include the servants, hippie communes, office teams, mafias, and scientific groupings.

Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

Nothing about two guys who pair up for sex and gardening.

7 posted on 12/01/2008 1:34:38 PM PST by weegee (Sec. of State Clinton. What kind of change is it to keep the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton Oligarchy?)
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Oh wait, I get it now. Mafia. As in Lavender Mafia. They are a “family”.


8 posted on 12/01/2008 1:35:48 PM PST by weegee (Sec. of State Clinton. What kind of change is it to keep the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton Oligarchy?)
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I like this, an appeal to their business sense:

“The letter warns IKEA that the drop in the birth rate will affect the company’s future business in Poland. “

You would think that a corporate giant would understand that catering to a group not known for prolific offspring would eventually cut into their bottom line.


9 posted on 12/01/2008 1:36:07 PM PST by voiceinthewind
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To: voiceinthewind

They are into short term profits. DINKS (dual income, no kids) have more disposable income.


10 posted on 12/01/2008 1:37:18 PM PST by weegee (Sec. of State Clinton. What kind of change is it to keep the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton Oligarchy?)
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Learn something every day. DINKS, hmm? That must mean for most of my life we’ve been OIMKs, and before the first baby was born we were OINKS!


11 posted on 12/01/2008 1:42:01 PM PST by voiceinthewind
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You would think that a corporate giant would understand that catering to a group not known for prolific offspring would eventually cut into their bottom line.

You would think they would know better than to put such an ad in Poland of all places. I really hope Poland stands strong and doesn't tolerate the new European New-Think. But as the post following yours said, IKEA is just looking at the short term profit from DINKs.

12 posted on 12/01/2008 1:43:27 PM PST by Clock King (Radical Conservatives, arise!)
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To: voiceinthewind

Shouldn’t it be “Adam and Steve” not Ian?


13 posted on 12/01/2008 1:48:19 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Barack Obama: In Error and arrogant -- he's errogant!)
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To: voiceinthewind

Huh. There’s just something natural about a company that sells fiberboard promoting the gay lifestyle.

Well, looks like I’ll need to buy real furniture the next time I move.

Screw IKEA.


14 posted on 12/01/2008 1:49:02 PM PST by CE2949BB (Fight.)
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To: voiceinthewind

The Parliament threatened to take the country to the international courts for failing to implement the homosexualist agenda in its laws.

Yeah? And what are they going to do to Poland?

Invade them and force them to accept the wee sodomites? Just what power does this “court” have without the consent of people?

Poland gets a medal for telling them to bugger off.
[....yeah, I know that court is coming here and real freakin soon.]


15 posted on 12/01/2008 1:54:27 PM PST by Adder (typical basicly decent bitter white person)
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Compared to the vast horrors inflicted upon Poland by the Nazis and the Soviets, this pattycake criticism by EU parliament must to the Poles have all the force of a wet noodle.

Warsaw Uprising, anyone? Homofascism is pale and puny next to the real thing.


16 posted on 12/01/2008 2:07:58 PM PST by elcid1970 ("O Muslim! My cartridges are lubricated with pig grease!")
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Yup, the EU is doing it's best to turn Europe into a cesspit of moral relativity [sic], pushing the homosexual agenda, abortion and similar depravity on every country. Fortuantely Poland so far is withstanding the onslaught.

17 posted on 12/01/2008 4:35:47 PM PST by little jeremiah (Leave illusion, come to the truth. Leave the darkness, come to the light.)
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To: elcid1970

Odd how the many Nazis and indeed, the Nazi philosophy, had a strange connection to homosexuality - and the agenda itself, which was fomented in pre-war Germany. In the 1930s and IIRC even before, in other parts of Europe such as Italy, homosexuality was called “The German vice”.

Hopefully the EU will dissolve eventually and become nothing.


18 posted on 12/01/2008 4:37:42 PM PST by little jeremiah (Leave illusion, come to the truth. Leave the darkness, come to the light.)
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To: voiceinthewind

Ian & Steve have to be mock homosexuals. The real ones I know wouldn’t be caught dead at Ikea.

I guess they’re faux gay!


19 posted on 12/01/2008 4:41:32 PM PST by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: little jeremiah

“The German vice” (homosexuality as seen by other Europeans)

Now that is `verrrrrry interesting’!

Widespread homosexuality in the Waffen S.S. has been documented on the History Channel, using some rather disgusting archival footage.

“The Pink Swastika” can be read online as another source.

Anyway, the EU should wither away just like the `Holy Roman Empire’ that preceded it.


20 posted on 12/01/2008 5:28:03 PM PST by elcid1970 ("O Muslim! My cartridges are lubricated with pig grease!")
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