Group wants JC Penney to dump Ellen DeGeneres because she's gay

[NAO]

Group wants JC Penney to dump Ellen DeGeneres because she's gay
http://entertainment.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/02/10301486-group-wants-jc-penney-to-dump-ellen-degeneres-because-shes-gay

This and SGK in the same week. The religious reich is really on the march these days.

[Denninmi]

1. Oh, get over it already. That is so 1997.

Good lord, this is a rerun.

[yellowcanine]

2. I like it that "Million Moms" assumes that JCP customers are anti-GBLT. And even if they were, that

they would change their shopping habits just because some advocacy group tells them to.

"Funny that JC Penney thinks hiring an open homosexual spokesperson will help their business when most of their customers are traditional families," the million (or so) moms write on their website. "DeGeneres is not a true representation of the type of families that shop at their store. The majority of JC Penney shoppers will be offended and choose to no longer shop there."

[Drale]

3. and I want said group to disband and never talk to each other again

but we don't always get our way know do we?

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Funny, but since JCP announced their new pricing, I'll be shopping there even more!

[Drunken Irishman]

5. Wait, Ellen's GAY?

[Politicalboi]

6. My first job was at JCP

In Dec 1978. I was reading the posts on the facebook page, and most if not all support JCP. And the "million mom's" have only 30,000 friends at facebook. LOL! They better do an inventory.

[rox63]

7. Ellen has one of the most popular daytime talk shows out there

A lot of her viewers are Moms who have absolutely no problem with her just the way she is. Are these asshats also boycotting Cover Girl cosmetics, since Ellen is also a spokesperson for them?

[dballance]

8. Go pound Sand "million moms"

Maybe you should wake up and get into this century where there are a number of diverse people. Would you have been arresting Rosa Parks back in the '60s because she wouldn't sit in the back of the bus? That was accepted policy back then.

Stay out of my bedroom and I'll stay out of your life. Next time you say you want government to be smaller and stay out of our lives then you should actually think about what you are saying and not just repeating platitudes the wealthy white men tell you to say.

[hedgehog]

9. I wonder if it ever occurred to the Million Moms that

some of us Moms have gay daughters; gay daughters that we will defend like mother bears!

[TwilightGardener]

11. What decade is this?

[Vogon_Glory]

12. Keeping Ellen Would Be Good Marketing

JC Penney's executives would be fools to drop Ellen Degeneres. From what I've seen of her show, she's bright, outgoing, and a good tv talk-show host. Whatever her sexual orientation, she manages to convey an appealing persona where her own sexuality is a side issue, not a public one.

In short, she looks wholesome as well as looks pretty. She also acts pleasantly, which is more than I suspect can be said of the so-called "Million Moms" trying to bluff and bully JC Penney.

[Little Star]

13. I adore Ellen....

Screw One Million Moms!

[Ebadlun]

14. That's some stamina

[mzteris]

15. group of ijuts.

I seriously doubt there's a Million of them anyway. You know they can't count past ten unless they take their shoes off!