BVS
Blue Crack Supplier
how is this selling clothes?
Really? Come on now, marketers have been using sex, shock value, and the flat out weird to sell clothes for decades now. This isn't new.
how is this selling clothes?
what is the highest priority, (political goal) for gay people in the United States ?
As stated, it's entirely your right to decide what's acceptable in your household. I can't tell any parent they should look at something they don't like any more than that parent can tell me I shouldn't look at something they don't like.
But honestly, of all the issues in the world for mothers to concern themselves with, THIS is it? Two girls kissing in an ad? I agree that it doesn't really do anything for the product itself and is mainly there for shock value and is rather pointless as a result...but the reason shock value marketing continues to occur is because people continue to respond and be shocked by it and make it a news story. If you make it seem like it's not that big a deal, they'll have to switch marketing strategies eventually when people just look at their oh-so-shocking ads with a yawn and a shrug.
And at some point and time these mothers are going to have to explain lesbianism to their children. At some point and time their children will be exposed to it. Maybe even turn out to be lesbian themselves! How will they deal with that when the time comes? Shunning things only gets you so far for so long, and it often makes things worse instead of better for the kids.
They have the right to not support such things or let them in their homes, but I also have the right to tell them to be realistic, grow up, and realize there are bigger, more serious battles to be fought in this world.
A week from Tuesday, North Carolinians vote on whether to make gay marriage constitutionally illegal. This print ad campaign was launched to shock voters into defeating the Amendment:
This is how the Amendment One question will appear on the ballot:
[__] For [__] Against
Constitutional amendment to provide that marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized by this State.
The state already doesn't "recognize" same-sex unions. That apparently isn't a strong enough statement for North Carolina lawmakers.
These segregation-riffing ads—tagged "On May 8th, make history. Don't repeat it."— are via Every1Against1. They argue that Amendment One "aims to turn all unmarried couples—whether same-sex or opposite-sex—into second-class citizens unworthy of basic dignity and fair treatment."
...[A]fter a similar constitutional amendment was passed in Ohio, several courts ruled that domestic violence protections did not apply to unmarried couples and cases were dismissed.
Poor countries don't even care about their gays. Just like Obama doesn't care about black people.Man, I'm still pretty damn baffled how this is still such a big issue in so called first world countries in this day and age..
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa — the chairman of the 2012 Democratic National Convention
— said on Wednesday that he favors a gay marriage legalization plank in his party’s platform.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/73729.html#ixzz1u7dkkh6z
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May 7, 2012
Mr. Biden’s Moment of Truth
Every so often, candidates running for high office say what they really think about an important issue. It’s virtually always a problem, especially if that candidate is a vice president and what he thinks differs from his president.
On Sunday, Vice President Joseph Biden Jr. said he was “absolutely comfortable” with same-sex marriage and portrayed the freedom to marry as a fundamental civil right. It was an important statement of support for marriage equality, and it was a big step forward from the endlessly frustrating hedging of President Obama. It should make it harder for Mr. Obama to cling to the tired evasion that his views on marriage are “evolving.”
Mr. Biden, who is prone to saying a bit too much on a few too many occasions, discussed same-sex marriage with David Gregory on “Meet the Press” on NBC. He movingly described the issue as questions of “who do you love?” and “will you be loyal to the person you love?”
Mr. Biden recalled meeting the children of a gay couple two weeks ago at a fund-raiser at their home. “I wish every American could see the look of love those kids had in their eyes for you guys,” he said he told one host. “And they wouldn’t have any doubt about what this is about.”
Mr. Biden declined to say whether Mr. Obama would endorse same-sex marriage before the November election, or in a second term. He began his remarks by saying Mr. Obama sets these policies, not him.
Still, his comments triggered the panic alarm at the Obama campaign, producing the comical spectacle of aides to Mr. Biden and David Axelrod, a senior adviser to Mr. Obama, trying to portray the vice president’s remarks as in line with the president’s views. They are not. Mr. Obama remains stuck publicly relegating same-sex relationships to separate and unequal civil unions.
On Monday, Arne Duncan, Mr. Obama’s education secretary, also endorsed marriage equality. (Shaun Donovan, who is the secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, did so earlier.) That made it even harder to figure out what Mr. Obama and his political handlers think is gained by the president’s hedging.
The Obama administration has taken some positive steps against antigay discrimination, such as repealing the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy and ending the Justice Department’s legal defense of the Defense of Marriage Act, the unconstitutional law that bars federal recognition of legally performed same-sex unions.
In stark contrast to Mitt Romney, who has aligned himself with the most fervent opponents of same-sex marriage, Mr. Obama has come out against the proposed state constitutional amendment to bar same-sex marriages and civil unions that is going before voters in Tuesday’s primary election in North Carolina.
But, by failing to go the next step and actually say that he supports the freedom to marry as Mr. Biden does and as polls show nearly a majority of Americans do, Mr. Obama risks dampening the enthusiasm of allies without gaining the support of equality’s opponents. It’s not an unfamiliar place for this president to be, unfortunately.
It would be good for a broad range of Americans to see him articulate a clear position of principle and then defend it before the voting public.
I don't know Obama's position on same sex marriage.
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Do you honestly believe that simply coming out in support of same sex marriage will lower the black vote from 90-something percent to 70-something percent? Somehow I doubt that one issue would swing things that severely.that article you posted?
I looked up the source, The New York Times opinion
Ok, easy for them
and now we have former DNC Chair and former Pennsylvania governor and Democratic stalwart Ed Rendell had harsh words for President Obama's new "evolution" on gay marriage.
Former DNC Chair Rendell: Obama Should 'Man Up' And Tell Gay Marriage Position
These people must be on the side of Romney 2012.
Sure, they will say they are on the side of history.
But, this election is going to be close. Obama needs the 90%+ per cent of black vote in a few swing votes. Turn off a few, let that fall to only 70% per cent because of the Black religious vote, and we can have a Romney Presidency.
There is concern that the Jewish vote has slipped 10-15%. These small margins matter, does anyone remember 2000?
Do you honestly believe that simply coming out in support of same sex marriage will lower the black vote from 90-something percent to 70-something percent? Somehow I doubt that one issue would swing things that severely.
So you are just fine with President Romney for 8 years.
Obama needs the 90%+ per cent of black vote in a few swing votes. Turn off a few, let that fall to only 70% per cent because of the Black religious vote, and we can have a Romney Presidency.
There is concern that the Jewish vote has slipped 10-15%. These small margins matter, does anyone remember 2000?
Do you honestly believe that simply coming out in support of same sex marriage will lower the black vote from 90-something percent to 70-something percent? Somehow I doubt that one issue would swing things that severely.