Macy's Loses its Pride
The Macy’s Department store removed a display including two male mannequins, due to the demands of a fringe, gay-bashing group whose web site has “had enough…of homosexual activist recruitment of our children in the public schools!”The group who freaked out, Mass Resistance, list of links on their site gives shout-outs to one Michael Heath, leader of the Maine Christian Civic League here in Maine. Heath is best known for starting his own web site to voluntarily “out” all local politicians “suspected” of being gay so everyone knows who they are. Such a cute little close-knit group of homophobes, these people are.
The reason why Macy’s had what appeared to be two gay mannequins in the window? It’s Boston’s gay pride week.
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 (see the image, above right, thanks to AmericaBlog).
MassResistance, formerly the Article 8 Alliance, which has campaigned against gay marriage and gay-themed textbooks in public schools, objected to the display...Read on.
Americablog has a picture of the visual metaphor. Because after all, if the gay pride displays are removed, people will stop being gay, right? Right?
Although this group is certainly an outlier on the scale of politics, I would suggest there is a strong connection between our political leaders devaluing gays, lesbians and their relationships, and the bacteria-like breeding of groups such as MassResistance. Despite the fact that we’ve already got the 1997 Defense of Marriage Act on the books, Senator Vitter of Louisiana has this to say about his political priorities.
Hurricane season is upon us Senator. Thousands of people are still desperate, homeless or dead, but thank fucking God boys aren’t legally kissing under a shared roof. That would just be wrong.
posted by Jeremy at 5:52 PM
7 Comments:
i think it is many things- but that is definitely one of them. we have such a live and let live attitude- oddly enough- and if it doesn't directly effect us- well- let someone else deal with it. that is how these fringe wack jobs can get away mobilizing and doing their damage. they are motivated to do so.
McCarthyism for homosexuality. The ignorance that continues to go on endlessly in this country is astounding.
I overheard one woman at work say something about "well, there are children that will see that, so I'm glad they removed it."
Wouldn't want to expose the children to diversity and acceptance.
So did the gayness go away when the things were taken away? Did everyone suddenly become straight as a viagra arrow?
Nothing more important than de-gaying the dept. store windows and preventing happy gay people from having equal legal rights? Which world would he be living in?
This just proves (over and over again) that we need more flesh eating zombies lurking in alleys.
If there were, then these people would have something real to worry about. Since there isn't they have to make up some sort of boogeyman:
homosexuals
terrorists (more terrorist attacks on the US by US citizens than all others combined)
baby killers
drug makers that make vaccines for the most predominant STD there is, by the way I've heard that roughly 80% of sexualy active women have HPV
pagans
warriors against christianity
liberals
All while ignoring the real shit that matters:
levies in hurricane prone areas
the lack of inspection for trailer "house" tornado tiedowns
Semi-truck inspections (here in Texas there is 3 days that are well anounced that the DPS does "pop" inspections where about 1800 trucks are taken off the road, but only 3 days out of the year!)
crack babies (a friends daughter is on her 5th crack baby, but they can't remove her overies and she goes to the ER with track marks and is hitting up the same day she give birth, before and after).
Both lists go on and on.
So what we need is more flesh eating zombies. Something to really worry about that can't be brushed to the side because it doesn't bring in votes by stirring up implanted emotion.
Sorry that turned into a rant.
Cheers,
Jessifu
This just proves (over and over again) that we need more flesh eating zombies lurking in alleys.
If there were, then these people would have something real to worry about. Since there isn't they have to make up some sort of boogeyman:
homosexuals
terrorists (more terrorist attacks on the US by US citizens than all others combined)
baby killers
drug makers that make vaccines for the most predominant STD there is, by the way I've heard that roughly 80% of sexualy active women have HPV
pagans
warriors against christianity
liberals
All while ignoring the real shit that matters:
levies in hurricane prone areas
the lack of inspection for trailer "house" tornado tiedowns
Semi-truck inspections (here in Texas there is 3 days that are well anounced that the DPS does "pop" inspections where about 1800 trucks are taken off the road, but only 3 days out of the year!)
crack babies (a friends daughter is on her 5th crack baby, but they can't remove her overies and she goes to the ER with track marks and is hitting up the same day she give birth, before and after).
Both lists go on and on.
So what we need is more flesh eating zombies. Something to really worry about that can't be brushed to the side because it doesn't bring in votes by stirring up implanted emotion.
Sorry that turned into a rant.
Cheers,
Jessifu
Thats ok I'm a big fan of Jessifu rants...
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