JCPenney Ad Causes Anger
JCPenny has released new ads featuring a lesbian couple for their Mother’s Day campaign and some folks are not too happy about it.
According to the Daily Mail, the conservative anti-gay group One Million Moms (OMM) has launched an attack on JCPenney for their ads that encourage women (and anyone who reads it) to practice freedom of expression. OMM believes JCPenney has taken sides in the “cultural war” on gay rights:
“On pages ten and eleven, under the title ‘Freedom of Expression,’ you’ll find ‘Wendi and her partner Maggie and daughters’. In the picture both women are wearing wedding bands.”
“Last time OMM contacted JCPenney store managers, we were brushed off. Some even experienced in person the store manager saying ‘Thank you’ and walking off while their customer and our concerned members were in mid-sentence.”
“OMM has been told that JCP corporate office told store managers to say ‘Thank you’ and then walk away. If they want our business, then we will not be ignored!”
The professional thing to do when someone approaches you to complain about something they think is unjust is to say “Thank you,” so I fail to see how this is a bad thing. Honestly, this OMM group sounds like an angry lynch mob, so walking away may be the safest thing for these employees to do.
Clearly, JCPenney has taken a stand for what they believe is right and that is something not many corporations are willing to do. I applaud JCPenney for including women of all types in their ad campaigns. That takes courage and maybe other companies will follow suit.
I believe in love and I believe people should be able to love whomever they want. If you aren’t harming me and I am not harming you, why should either of us care who the other loves? My only wish for other people is happiness. I recently got married to the man of my dreams (yes, I’m straight) and I can’t imagine not being able to experience that love with the world. Although let’s be honest – the world doesn’t have to experience my love. The only folks subjected to our love were close family and friends who had to come to our wedding.
My point is: who cares? Live and let live right?
What do you think?
Controversial JCPenney Ad
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Live and let live is only a phrase. In reality it doesn’t work. The actions of one person always affect another for good or for bad. Drunk driving is an example. Homosexuality is a sin. It is a blantant abominable sin against God. God instituted marriage to be between a man and a woman and it is holy. In the book of Genisis the cities of Sodom and Gomorah were judged because of homosexuality. What is interesting in the story is before God brought judgement against the city, the men of the city were in the process of breaking down Lot’s door in order to rape the angels that had come to the city. The angels smote the men of the city with blindness, yet they still persisted in breaking down the door so they could rape the angels. That is really sick. So now in our country we have an aids epidemic. and we are constantly getting hit with one “natural disaster” after another. We need to turn fron our sins and recieve the forgiveness God offers in Jesus Christ while there is still time. http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/BTP/Dr_Bynum/bible_and_homosexual.htm
I don’t know why JCPenney would want to turn Christian shoppers against them. Everyone in their right mind knows, any upstanding Gay person would be caught DEAD wearing anything from JCPenney. And no ad such as this is going to change that. I guess the laugh is on JCP. They need to rethink their marketing team.
I would like to Personally Thank You for writing about this and I am a “straight” person which in this day and time I dont really think that anyone can correctly define what straight means but in this instance for this it means I love a man and I am a woman.. but I believe also that “Live and Let Live” is the correct term.. I dont bother you you dont bother me I dont care who my neighbor loves or my daughters best friend loves as long as you love and do no harm so if its the same sex or the oppisite sex that is your choice and no one elses.. Thank you agan for showing your support it is greatly appreciated…
Thank you for your support Carmen! XO – Twisted-News