The AFA is quickly running out of places to buy white sheets.

I wish the JC Penny link from yesterday had gone green and not this. Target has given money to some pretty awful people and they seem to me to be fair-weather friends, at best.

we're closer to Great Depression 2.0 than ever before...and conservatives waste their time on gay marriage? WTF man...have a sense of priority!

Crap. Looks like I have to go shopping at Target today. I can really piss off some Texans wearing those shirts in my town.

Sounds like fun.

The gheys and the Folks From Away have made the rainbow a bad thing now?

Better not tell them about ponies then...

ciberido: RobSeace: "Target is attacking traditional marriage, which is an incredibly misguided thing for them to have done," said Chuck Darrell, spokesman for Minnesota for Marriage, a group campaigning to pass the constitutional marriage amendment. "It's an insult to the overwhelming majority of their customers."

Oh, go breathe into a bag, you hyperventilating douchebag...

I came here to tell Chuck Darrell, "Hey, if you want to feel insulted, I'd be glad to help out," but I see you've already got that covered for me. Thanks!

One might at least expect a group of concerned mothers to at least have one of those Moms be their spokesperson. Which, I suppose means, that if HE'S a Mom, then ergo, OMM does allow the gheys in...

Serious Black: The vast majority of those votes came in 2004. Public opinion has changed dramatically since then. Odds are that Maine, Maryland, and Washington will all have votes this November that break the trend.

To point out how rapidly things are changing, in 2008 Florida passed a constitutional gay marriage ban by 20 percentage points. While I suspect that it would probably still pass at this point too because of the way that old people dominate the voter turnout, at the same time, in the last few months several of the major metropolitan areas in Florida have passed domestic partnership registries with no controversy worth noting. Four years ago, that definitely would not have happened without a major fight, today not even the Florida Family Association bothered to pitch a fit, or if they did, it wasn't enough of one to get press.

3StratMan: Still haven't had anyone explain to me exactly why it is so important for gays to be able to marry. The argument is that they want the same "rights" that heteros have when they marry. Exactly what "rights" do heteros have when they are married that gays who are not are being denied? Still sounds like gay marriage advocates are using the word "rights" when what they actually are meaning is "benefits".

Simple question- what "rights' are being denied?

If they are denied those "benefits" then they are not being treated equally by their Government which means they are being denied their Constitutional Rights such as

The ability to Marry, Loving v Virginia codified the ability to marry as a right
Equal Access, to a government recognized contract
Equal recognition by their Government
Equal treatment by Their Government
The Right to access those Benefits nad Priveleges

BlameBush: Some very smart retailer is gonna make a bundle marketing to "traditional family values". If the voting majority in 32 states supported marriage amendments, that's a huge potential market for a retailer to pick up and lock in by targeting (no pun intended) their advertising - and a small market segment to lose. Done right, that retailer could really hurt Target and Penny (not that Penny has much to lose anyway).

I doubt it. Votes are anonymous, so people can vote their hatred and bigotry with no one the wiser. I don't think most people want to be seen wearing clothing that expresses those sentiments.

Holy fark people.. WHY IS THIS STILL EVEN AN ISSUE? We have a country that is still working its way out of the credit crisis, a health care system horribly out of whack, a very serious dependence on foreign oil, at least one actual war going on and many other more important things going on why are we as a country so caught up in this??

If two people love each other wanna get married ffs just let them! Seriously, why the shiat is anyone against this? Do people really think if it becomes legal all the married men in the country will reveal that they are sekrit gays and leave their wives to go marry each other? And don't give me the religion angle, at least not Christianity, because nowhere in the bible is Jesus ever directly quoted as saying gay marriage is wrong (he sure does talk about love and respect a lot and recognizing gay marriage sure would be a good way to respect the love between two women or two men).

I really wish we could just legalize gay marriage country wide and move on to building a financially sound, militarily strong and environmentally healthy country

MFAWG: I'm not surprised. About half the male staff at my local Target appear to be FABULOUSLY gay.

The same would be true for most men working in retail for companies not named "Wal-Mart". In all the years I worked in retail, I only had one male boss who was married to a woman. Other than the manager who seemed to be willing to hit anything male or female as long as they could help advance his career, all of my male managers and about 3/4 of my male coworkers were very very gay.

I just love the butthurt suffered by the Unchristians.
Love it!
Masquerade as a Jesus advocate and spew hate?
I do find entertainment and amusement in the butthurt and seriously hope they choke on it.

strapp3r: the desperation is getting stinky.
"but we're not homo-phobic" doesn't sell. the rash of trolling preachers calling for death to teh gheyz is what is really cooking for the fundies.
and "but the bible says..." has also worn thin. just ask one why god used to do interviews and when he did: slavery was cool, shaving wasn't, no ostrich or pork on the menu, the red tent, no-iron cotton/poly shirts are sinful, etc. etc.
the rats are making themselves known.

I'm pretty sure the trolling preachers aren't a new thing, the only thing that's new is them ending up on the intarwebs for the crazy stuff they're saying. At my expensive private Presbyterian college where I went for undergrad, in one of the freshman core courses we actually debated in class whether enacting Old Testament civil law, including the stoning the gays bit, was a valid political position to take (the professor I took for the class made little effort to hide the fact that he hated having to cover that part of the class, but there were people who thought it a valid view).

Can we please forget about these sixteen coonts?

I'm surprised that One Million Moms isn't pitching a fit over Macy's sponsoring Pride events in a bunch of their stores.