Deranged bigot Linda Harvey of Mission America is quite upset that Office Depot is apparently partnering with Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation in a promotion to spread a message of tolerance and acceptance for gay youth. I’m sure it goes without saying that this is going to ruin the whole country.
There’s another business parents need to avoid these days, especially for back to school shopping. Office Depot has decided to team up with Lady Gaga and her new pro-homosexual, non-profit group. Office Depot will be pushing rainbow colored products with messages that encourage the deviance of homosexuality while giving untruthful information to kids. Just to give some background, Lady Gaga has become quite a supporter of the homosexual political agenda, including the many ways children and teens are being deceived about these lifestyles. She jumped on board in a big way with a song called Born This Way and then followed up by starting the Born This Way Foundation. The goal, the group’s website says, is to ‘foster a more accepting society, where differences are embraced and individuality is celebrated. The Foundation is dedicated to creating a safe community that helps connect young people with the skills and opportunities they need to build a kinder, braver world.’ It sounds noble but the reality is that they want to link children to homosexuality, which is deeply wrong.
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The American Family Association is asking people to call and email Office Depot and tell them to ‘leave our kids alone.’ I agree and I would add one more thing. Office Depot needs to stop trying to soft sell harmful, deviant behavior, and also stop using deceptive terms like ‘safe’ and ‘brave’ in connection to homosexuality. These kids are not victims, they all deserve respectful guidance away from these behaviors and people who oppose homosexuality are not unsupportive. Office Depot is implying that it’s brave to openly identify as homosexual: this is not simply untrue; it’s an idea that endangers the welfare of children. The campaign also implies that if kids don’t support their peers who are involved in homosexual behavior, they contribute to an unsafe environment and aren’t brave like the ones who do.
This is the worst kind of propaganda: pointing kids towards deviance and immorality while calling it courageous and brave. Parents need to keep kids away from such nonsense. Here’s where we stand: Mission America supports punishment for all incidents of bullying, period, for all reasons; at the same time, we absolutely reject the false and discriminatory idea that traditional morality somehow causes bullying. This is about as valid as saying that healthy nutrition programs cause the bullying incidents unleashed on kids who are overweight. No, troubled kids are the ones who bully and these incidents need to be punished when they happen.
Let’s expose the deceptive idea these people would lead kids to, and that is that schools should exercise viewpoint discrimination against Christians and conservatives, it’s deceptive hysteria to promote an agenda, one that is corrupting our kids. No one is born homosexual, there’s no credible evidence for this. Homosexuality continues to be unnatural behavior, no matter how many celebrities support it…. Tell [Office Depot] to stop misleading kids to accept this harmful behavior and be sure to shop for back to school items at a different store.
But remember, only liberals start boycotts. And when they do, they’re undermining the free enterprise system. And doing exactly what the Nazis did to the Jews. And all those boycotts called by the religious right don’t count because Jesus says so, you commienazianticolonialist pig.
Personally, I’m more worried about the campaign connected kids to Lady Gaga’s shitty music.
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d cwilson
August 7, 2012 at 10:38 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
There must be a offered somewhere to teach wingnuts how to compartmentalize their thoughts so that they can maintain their cognitive dissonance without their heads exploding.
Gregory in Seattle
August 7, 2012 at 10:40 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Fortunately, bigots were NOT born that way. Hate is a learned behavior, and perhaps that is why she is so bitter.
Gregory in Seattle
August 7, 2012 at 10:44 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I was reading the diatribe, and found myself swapping out “homosexual” for “Christian.” Then it hit me: an organization that sent out press releases and articles denouncing the dangers of Christian fundamentalism, using EXACTLY the same press releases and articles used by homophobic organizations.
I’d need a name, though. Something that would not raise suspicions at first glance….
Randomfactor
August 7, 2012 at 10:46 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
They’re so frenzied when they’re losing.
dingojack
August 7, 2012 at 10:51 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Gregory – How about: Americans for a Better Future (AFABF)? Or American Values First (AMF) or … Well anything with Americans in the title and then a string of anodyne place fillers.
Dingo
Zinc Avenger (Sarcasm Tags 3.0 Compliant)
August 7, 2012 at 10:56 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@Gregory – Americans for an American America
RickR
August 7, 2012 at 10:56 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
And we can’t have any of that. Heaven forbid.
rork
August 7, 2012 at 10:57 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“teens are being deceived”
“harmful, deviant behavior”
“endangers the welfare of children”
We are supposed to know what she is talking about. Someone help me, cause I don’t. HIV risk (for men anyway)? Risk of some god(s) not liking it? Straight kids feeling uncomfortable?
No bravery to be out there: I wish it were true.
birgerjohansson
August 7, 2012 at 10:57 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Americans for something something (coughcoughKILL THE GAYScough).
vmanis1
August 7, 2012 at 11:21 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I agreed with everything Ed said except the last sentence. I actually like Lady Gaga’s music. So there!
bobcarroll
August 7, 2012 at 12:01 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Gregory: Americans For Families First : AFFF
peicurmudgeon
August 7, 2012 at 12:14 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@ vmanis1 – another fan of Lady Gaga. She is actually very talented, as a singer and a keyboard player. She also puts everything she has into he rlive shows.
Ed Brayton
August 7, 2012 at 12:20 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I came across one of her live shows on HBO while flipping channels one night and watched about 15 minutes. It left me absolutely baffled. It would have needed a promotion to get to be merely terrible. Of course, this is all subjective. But that was my opinion then and it remains so.
eric
August 7, 2012 at 12:44 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I think she just said that its all the
fattroubled kids’ fault.By their love, by their love…
Modusoperandi
August 7, 2012 at 12:53 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Ed Brayton “But that was my opinion then and it remains so.”
“And get off my lawn!”
Azkyroth, Former Growing Toaster Oven
August 7, 2012 at 2:31 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Why not “Worthy Americans for An All-American America?”
Skip White
August 7, 2012 at 2:57 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@Gregory in Seattle:
How about Families United for Caring and Kindness?
YankeeCynic
August 7, 2012 at 3:11 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
How crazy do the views and positions of your organization have to be that your organization can’t even imagine to take the Communist Bloc* approach to naming it?
*Tacking on more superlatives to your countries name to compensate for your own institutional deficits, EG the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea or the German Democratic Republic.
d cwilson
August 7, 2012 at 4:13 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Real Americans ™ for American Ameircans.
Nemo
August 7, 2012 at 4:25 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Ed, her music is terrific. You have no taste.
Ed Brayton
August 7, 2012 at 6:12 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Her music is shit. You have no taste. See how easy that was?
kantalope
August 7, 2012 at 8:55 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Basic American Rights Foundation?
Fundamental American Rights Traditions?
I think it has to have family in it to really go off the rails though: Mother’s Family United Committee for a Kinder America
And you kids get off Ed’s Lawn!!11
You will listen to Neil Sedaka and like it! Like IT!
What music do you think Ed would like really?
Kiss?
nah he seems more the classic type…classic rock: Eric Clapton?
Ed Brayton
August 7, 2012 at 9:23 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Can’t stand KISS. Or Neil Sedaka. I have very diverse musical tastes. In a given day I might listen to everything from James Taylor to Iron Maiden to Miles Davis to Rage Against the Machine to Jay Z. And yes, certainly Eric Clapton.