Anti-gay group One Million Moms returned to Facebook this week, after taking a week off to attend Vacation Bible School.
The group posted on its return:
Missed you girls! Had an amazing week at VBS (& family time)! Thank you for the prayers! Seeds were planted and many children were saved! To God Be the Glory!
Todd Koch, Cooper Smith and the North Texas couple's children were on a local Dallas news program yesterday to talk about their family's ad in the June catalog for clothing retailer JC Penney.
The pro-gay Father's Day ad renewed calls for boycott from conservative Christian group One Million Moms, who also organized an unsuccessful boycott after the retailer hired out funny woman Ellen DeGeneres to be a spokesperson earlier this year.
Some have wondered if OMM is not a JC Penney conspiracy, meant to drive up sales. Well, maybe just Keanu Reeves.
Check out the segment below. Spoiler warning, it's seriously cute:
It seems a targeted campaign to have One Million Moms removed from social networking site Facebook because of “hate speech” was a success. Either that, or the anti-gay group was so tired of reading pro-gay posts on its Facebook page that it voluntarily removed itself from the site.
As of this weekend, the group's Facebook page is no longer active. Links on the organization's website still direct to Facebook, only there's nothing there. Poof! Just like that, it's gone.
OMM calls itself “a network of Christian moms and grandmothers taking a stand for our children who are being exploited by the entertainment industry.” They lead a boycott charge against JC Penney over its decision to hire openly-gay Ellen DeGeneres as a spokesperson. They weren't too happy when the retailer included a happily married gay couple in its Father's Day catalog either. Oh, and don't get them started on the gay Green Lantern.
East Side Pride is organizing a JC Penney “buy-cott” to show support for the retailer's decision to stand by new spokesperson Ellen DeGeneres.
On Feb. 18, East Side Pride will meet at the Northlake Mall JC Penney from 3-6 p.m. to “shop until you drop” to support the retailer.
An anti-gay group called One Million Moms created a campaign to have DeGeneres fired from her new role and threatened to boycott the retailer until DeGeneres was gone. JC Penney stood by DeGeneres.
East Side Pride organizes Atlanta JC Penney 'buy-cott' to support Ellen DeGeneres