Lest there be any confusion, this week’s Creep is not just a
million random ladies with kids. One Million Moms is an affiliate of the
American Family Association. So you can imagine how much these moms love homos.
OMM loves homos so much that they won’t stop calling JC
Penney to talk about them. Or, specifically, "her," as in one particular homo:
Ellen DeGeneres.
I know what you’re thinking: "JC Penney still exists? And
there are really people who are freaked that Ellen’s gay? I thought both of
those things became non-issues in 1997."
Well, not so much.
In any case, DeGeneres recently signed on to be JC Penney’s
celebrity spokesperson and anti-gay folks are fuming because obviously JC
Penney is obviously trying to recruit young ladies onto Team Lesbo by selling
Hush Puppies, tailored suit jackets, and softball jerseys in the junior miss
section. Also Ellen will most likely be giving live, in-store lesbian sex
demonstrations. Otherwise, what’s there to fuss over?
Plenty, if you read the One Million Moms’ poorly written
alerts on their website.
"Funny that JC Penney thinks hiring an open homosexual
spokesperson will help their business when most of their customers are
traditional families," OMM muses. "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. The small
percentage of customers they are attempting to satisfy will not offset their
loss in sales."
I’m not sure of OMM has noticed, but Ellen DeGeneres has a
wildly popular TV show and millions of people love her. So it seems a bit of a
stretch to say the "majority" of JC Penney shoppers are going to go buy their
$8 knit fashion tops and $4 bath towels somewhere less gay friendly.
Well, I’ll give them one thing: DeGeneres really isn’t a
true representation of JC Penney’s customer base. But it’s not because she’s a
lesbian. It’s because she’s rich.
OMM is determined to bring JC Penney to its gay-loving knees
and they’ve been working the phones demanding that Ellen be fired.
"Ask JC Penney to replace Ellen DeGeneres as their new
spokesperson immediately and remain neutral in the culture war," the OMM
website reads.
And, of course, to groups like OMM and its parent group, the
AFA, being "neutral" means pretending that LGBT people do not exist. And having
a prominent lesbian representing a store where "families" shop makes that
fiction ever harder to live by.
Apparently the OMM call-in campaign isn’t working as JC
Penney has announced it has no intention to fire Ellen. And OMM is complaining
on their website that JC Penney’s corporate HQ keeps hanging up on them. Their
solution? Call the managers of local stores and harass them instead.
Rather than bother folks with actual work to do, why not
fight fire with fabulous and go shopping? Plopping some of your hard earned
dollars down on a JC Penney counter is the best way to thank them for not
caving to anti-gay bigotry.
And I wasn’t kidding when I said they had $4 bath towels.
They even have them in totally gay colors like Purple Opulence, Garnet, and
Exotic Pink. Remember, when the going gets tough, the tough go shopping!
"OMM is determined to bring JC Penney to its gay-loving knees and they’ve been working the phones demanding that Ellen be fired."