Rainbows & Oreos

I just came across this article on ABC News:

Oreo Pride: Rainbow-Stuffed Cookie Sparks Boycott

America’s favorite cookie is stirring up more than milk today after Kraft Foods posted a gay pride Oreo on the cookie’s Facebook page.

Oreo posted the photoshopped picture of an Oreo cookie stuffed with rainbow-colored layers of frosting Monday evening with the caption “Proudly support love!”

Over the past 17 hours more than 157,000 people have “liked” the image, 40,000 people have shared it and 20,000 have commented on it.

But while many of the comments were supportive, some Facebook users pledged to boycott the cookie because of the post.

“I’ll never buy Oreo again,” one commenter wrote.

“Disgusted with oreos,” wrote another. “Being gay is an abmonitation in GOd’s eyes i wont be buying them anymore.”

Basil Maglaris, a spokeswoman for Oreo’s parent company Kraft Foods, said in a statement that the image was part of a “series of daily ads reflecting current events in a fun way using images of OREO cookies and milk.” Kraft is not planning to sell the rainbow-stuffed Oreo in stores, Maglaris said, as it was created solely for the advertising campaign in honor of Pride month.

“We are excited to illustrate what is making history today in a fun and playful way,” she said in an email to ABC News. “As a company, Kraft Foods has a proud history of celebrating diversity and inclusiveness.  We feel the OREO ad is a fun reflection of our values.”

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Other images in the Oreo ad campaign, which celebrates the cookie’s 100^th birthday, include a parody of the No. 1 hit song “Call Me Maybe,” depicting an Oreo and glass of milk next to tweaked lyrics.

“I just met you and this is crazy, but here’s some milk so dunk me maybe,” reads the ad,  also posted to the Oreo Facebook wall.

Oreo is the latest in a string of juggernaut brands to show support for the LGBT community.

In honor of Pride month Target launched a line of gay pride t-shirts, and the proceeds went to support the Family Equality Council, a Washington D.C.-based gay rights advocacy group. The pride shirts sold out in less than a month.

Ben & Jerry’s, a longtime supporter of LGBT causes, renamed its apple pie flavor “Apple-y Ever After” in scoop shops throughout the U.K. in March, while the British government was debating legalizing same sex marriages.

The Vermont-based ice cream company re-vamped its peanut butter-filled pretzel flavor in 2009 when same sex marriage was being legalized in Vermont, swapping the “Chubby Hubby” name for “Hubby Hubby.”

Oh boy. Brace yourselves for the hate-spewing holier-than-thou crowd. Reading the comments on Facebook & ABC News article has been entertaining, to say the least.

As you can tell from some of these comments, these people are really intelligent:

RSM: Your comment makes no sense. Neither does your math. And learn when to use apostrophes. (Please notice this post is directly below “PROUD HOMOPHOBE.” Nice.)

BOZOISPREZ: Keepin’ it classy. By the way, it’s Kraft, not craft. You should know that, since you seem so well-educated and everything.

TIM: Oh, Tim. Don’t get your panties all in a wad.

And a couple more observations I’ve made:

1. You guys do realize that you’re getting worked up over a photoshopped picture of a rainbow cookie, right? (Oh, and these are not real, by the way. So those of you that insist you will not buy these rainbow Oreos once they come out? Yeah, keep waiting…)

2. For those of you that say you are going to boycott Oreos and never eat them again? That’s probably a good thing. After all, we are a disgustingly unhealthy and obese nation… So maybe this can be the start of your new diet.

3. Those of you that say you’re going to boycott all Kraft brands? Have fun with that. (Here’s your list, just to make it a bit easier on you.)

Oh, ignorance. What can I say? Haters gonna hate.

Ahh, nothing more inspirational than a pastor spewing hate

(Sarcasm. Obvi.)

Video of North Carolina pastor’s plan to ‘get rid of’ gays goes viral

By Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor

(CNN) – Video of a North Carolina pastor preaching that gays and lesbians should be rounded up inside an electric fence is going viral on the Internet, two weeks after North Carolina passed a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage and President Barack Obama voiced personal support for legalizing such marriages.

“I figured a way out, a way to get rid of all the lesbians and queers, but I couldn’t get it past the Congress,” Pastor Charles L. Worley can be seen telling his Providence Road Baptist Church congregation in the video, which had more than 250,000 YouTube views by Tuesday.

“Build a great big, large fence – 50 or a 100 miles long – and put all the lesbians in there,” Worley went on to say in his May 13 sermon at his Maiden, North Carolina, church. “Fly over and drop some food. Do the same thing with the queers and the homosexuals, and have that fence electrified so they can’t get out. Feed them. And you know in a few years, they’ll die out. You know why? They can’t reproduce.”

The video had initially been posted on Providence Road’s website but was recently taken down, according to CNN affiliate WBTV-TV in Charlotte.

The phone line at Worley’s church was busy on Monday night and Tuesday morning, as was Worley’s home number on Tuesday morning.

The church’s website was down Tuesday morning, but it had described the house of worship as fundamentalist, meaning it represents a Baptist tradition that’s more conservative than the Southern Baptists.

My Take: The Christian case for gay marriage

Worley’s sermon was posted on YouTube by a group called Catawba Valley Citizens Against Hate, which is organizing a protest at the Providence Road Baptist Church on Sunday.

Addressing his congregation last Sunday, Worley referred to his earlier controversial sermon.

“I talked a little bit, I believe it was last Sunday, on the homosexual lifestyle, and there was a whole lot of people who didn’t like what I said,” Worley told his congregation Sunday, according to WBTV. “I want to read it out of the Bible, and then we’ll go from there.”

“Listen, all of the Sodomites, the lesbians, and all of the … what’s that word? Gays – I didn’t wanna say ‘queers’ – that say we don’t love you, I love you more than you love yourself,” Worley said, according to WBTV. “I’m praying for you to be saved.”

Worley’s initial sermon was partly framed as a response to Obama’s endorsement of same-sex marriage, which he made in a TV interview a day after North Carolina voters passed a state constitutional amendment banning legal recognition of such marriages and other types of gay unions.

K, I’ve got a couple questions.

A) Is North Carolina looking to become the most hated state ever? Or are the pastors over there just not learn from their mistakes for some reason? (Please refer back to this gem) I believe Einstein once said, “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” This is leading me to believe that all North Carolina pastors may be insane.

B) I am a Christian. I believe that Christians should love. Christians should be open minded. Christians should not judge. What is with these “Christians” that preach hate and violence?? That just isn’t how it works. Just because you’re in the garage, that doesn’t make you a car. Same goes for a church. You spend all your time in a church? Good for you. That doesn’t make you a good Christian.

C) This isn’t a question, but I don’t care. I’m pretty sure that talking about killing off and electrocuting people because their lifestyle is different than yours is wrong. It actually reminds me of this thing in the past… it was called the Holocaust? Something in this pastor’s life must not be quite right at the moment — at least that’s what I can gather from his hateful speech. If he was a happy camper, I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t be making such disgusting comments about others.

Have fun with this media field day, Pastor Worley. Thanks for making Christians out to be hateful and judgmental – we sure do appreciate it.

Why we should ban gay marriage

I found this on Facebook and wanted to share. It’s not sarcastic or anything…

Apparently there are One Million Moms who really need a hobby…

The group “One Million Moms,” which claims to help mothers “stand against the immorality, violence, vulgarity and profanity” that saturates our entertainment industry, has another bone to pick with JCPenney. First they wanted Ellen DeGeneres fired as a spokesperson because she’s gay. Now they are agry at JCP because a gay couple is featured in their catalog. Here is their post about the issue:

Oh boy. Heaven forbid one of your children sees a smiling, happy pair of women on pages ten and eleven of a retail catalog. That would just be catastrophic!

Maybe your child shouldn’t be looking at a JCPenney catalog anyways… maybe they should be playing outside with friends like the majority of normal kids do. I don’t know about you, but I don’t remember studying retail catalogs for hours on end when I was in preschool.

Or you could try something called “parenting,” where you exert a little bit of control in your household and prevent your kids from doing any and everything they want. Don’t get me wrong, I personally would want my kids to have an open mind when it comes to homosexuality and I wouldn’t try to hide it from them. But if you are a parent that insists on shielding your child from everything, then I recommend enrolling them in the Catholic school system that I went to I recommend that you just don’t give them the catalog. Recycle it when it comes to your house. If I received one of those scandalous Abercrombie & Fitch catalogs with half-naked teens, I’d toss the thing so my kids couldn’t see it, and I wouldn’t spend my money at their store. Ta-da! Problem solved.

Which brings me to the next option: don’t shop at JCP. The post on the OMM website says: ”If they want our business, then we will not be ignored!” A. I doubt they want your business. You seem to really pester their employees. B. Just. Don’t. Shop. There. It’s pretty much the easiest solution ever.

But thanks for giving me some entertaining reading, OMM. Your crazy posts give me lots of material to work with… appreciate it!

Priceless. And absolutely absurd.

Boston Globe endorses Huntsman, Santorum compares homosexuality to polygamy…

Oh, the headlines.

I just do not understand how someone like Rick Santorum can surge in the polls, but someone like Jon Huntsman can’t seem to catch a break. Huntsman has gotten numerous endorsements and people keep stating that the GOP needs to take another look at him… but for whatever reason, the GOP doesn’t give him a chance.

On the other hand we have Rick Santorum:

• This is the man that compared homosexuality to “man on dog” and “man on child.”
• He recently said President Obama should oppose abortions… because he is a black man. 
• A couple days ago he said, “I don’t want to make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money,” … and then yesterday denied ever saying “black” people. C’mon man… it’s on tape.
• This guy is also anti-abortion in any situation… even in cases of rape, incest, the mother’s life being in danger (and there may be a bit of hypocrisy there…)
• He also advocated for caps on medical malpractice suits… except if they involve his wife suing a chiropractor.
• He finds absolutely nothing wrong with earmarks … in fact, he used government money like a drunken sailor.
• He — just today — tried lecturing a group of students on how homosexuality equals polygamy, and then became testy when people wouldn’t listen.
• He also thinks that there is no need for food stamps… because people are overweight. He said, and I quote, “If hunger is a problem in America, then why do we have an obesity problem among the people who we say have a hunger program?” 

And this is just what came to the top of my head.

I don’t know about you, but this is not a man that I would want to be running this country. Are you serious, GOP??