What a coincidence: Oreos, two days in a row. Click on headline to read entire article...Credit the group One Million Moms with spurring me to brave covid-19-struck Washington, D.C., and make a beeline to the grocery store to purchase some Oreo cookies.
I could do no less in light of a scurrilous campaign the organization has launched against Oreo and its parent company, Mondelez International.
Not to be confused with the Million Mom March gun-safety organization, OneMillionMoms.com is an online ministry of the American Family Association, a self-described “conservative, pro-family” organization based in Tupelo, Miss.
One Million Moms is out of sorts because Oreo has joined with the nonprofit PFLAG — an organization of supportive parents, families and allies of LGBTQ people — to release “Rainbow Oreos.” These are described as cookies filled with Oreo cream in the colors of the Pride flag, and the company has launched the new product with a moving ad depicting a daughter and her partner introducing their relationship to her parents.
Here is the One Million Moms description of that ad: “The commercial focuses on the mother approving of her daughter’s girlfriend, but the father is hesitant and has reservations. He later has a change of heart and even displays his acceptance of her lifestyle by painting his picket fence in rainbow colors to further show his approval. The advertisement ends with: ‘A loving world starts with a loving home.’ Followed by: ‘Show you’re a proud parent #PROUDPARENT.’ ”
Lovely, isn’t it? Well, not to One Million Moms. The group is downright apoplectic.
The Oreo ad, the group charges, is an attempt to “normalize the LGBTQ lifestyle” by “featuring a lesbian couple, to brainwash children and adults alike by desensitizing audiences.”
One Million Moms warns that when you purchase Oreos or other brands and products Mondelez produces (such as Chips Ahoy!, Cadbury Dairy Milk, Honey Maid, Halls, Ritz, Triscuit, Trident gum and Wheat Thins), you help fund and support PFLAG.
Excuse me, can someone direct me to the cookie aisle and please bring me 2 mort carts!!! Just another misguided group of self righteous idiots who feel it is their duty to make people who don't think like them believe they are abnormal and not deserving of any rights. Well, I think most of us see the abnormality for what it is, and they are called one million mothers!
ReplyDeleteThere goes my diet! On to the cookie aisle!
ReplyDeleteMilleson - You got that right.
ReplyDeleteI knew nothing about these cookies. Now, I will search them out to buy them!
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