The Gay Thread

[SzczerbiakManiac]

The official response:

We have received a number of complaints regarding an incident in our Mountain Home store involving the current issue of US Weekly Magazine depicting Elton John, David Furnish and their newborn son. I would like to explain how this happened. For many years we have provided each of our stores with shields which can be used at the manager’s discretion to cover the front of magazines when they receive complaints from our customers regarding either the photo on the cover of the magazine or the titles of articles contained within the magazine. Sometimes those photos might be sexually provocative or too revealing. The magazine article titles might also be too suggestive for some customers.

In this case our store manager received some complaints and, as has been our custom, placed the shield over the cover of the magazine. When we began receiving complaints at our corporate office, we reviewed the magazine in question, removed the shield and are selling the magazine in all our locations today without any shield.

Our true intention is not to offend anyone in our stores and this incident happened at just one of our 65 locations, which when brought to our attention, we reversed.

Kim B. Eskew
President & COO
Harps Food Stores, Inc.

[innerSpaceman]

Thanks for checking into that, SM. Guess Harps uses really cheap labor to print their magazine shields.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

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[innerSpaceman]

It's a Trap!

[BarTopDancer]

If it's truly at the managers discretion he needs to be reprimanded. Then again, it speaks volumes of the demographic that visits that store. How a happy, stable couple that has been together for over a decade showing off their baby can be offensive is pathetic.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Well come on BTD, it's obvious Elton and David are working tirelessly to destroy the American way of life, so it's only reasonable that Righteous Christians be offended by such treachery and do their duty to stop these homasexshuls.

Praise the Lord and pass the ammo!

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by SzczerbiakManiac

Well come on BTD, it's obvious Elton and David are working tirelessly to destroy the American way of life, so it's only reasonable that Righteous Christians be offended by such treachery and do their duty to stop these homasexshuls.

Praise the Lord and pass the ammo!

Those damn Brits. Trying to get back at us any way they can for our Revolution.

[JWBear]

I remember reading, years ago, a version of the Sermon On the Mount that was rewritten to fit modern American Christianity. There was something like "Blessed are the faithful, for they shall be easily offended and quick to anger."

[Chernabog]

Originally Posted by JWBear

I remember reading, years ago, a version of the Sermon On the Mount that was rewritten to fit modern American Christianity. There was something like "Blessed are the faithful, for they shall be easily offended and quick to anger."

Well that's the gist. They're also really good at crying "victim" when someone they've hurt calls them on the stupidity or danger of their beliefs.

See i.e. the US Televangelists who went to Africa. Stir up anti-gay sentiment in Africa where there wasn't any. When gay people start getting murdered, they all say the same thing: "You're attacking me and my beliefs! You are so closed-minded and disrespectful to your fellow man! I just went there preachin' the Lord and now I'm the one that's being stabbed!"

*barf*

[SzczerbiakManiac]

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