News: Macy's removes gay pride display

[RGR]

Wed Jun 7, 10:24 AM ET

BOSTON - Macy's department store has removed a window display marking Boston's gay pride week after a group that opposes gay marriage complained it was offensive.

The display at the downtown Boston store featured two male mannequins, with one wearing a gay pride rainbow flag around his waist, next to a list of several planned Boston Pride Week events.

MassResistance, formerly the Article 8 Alliance, which has campaigned against gay marriage and gay-themed textbooks in public schools, objected to the display and said the mannequin wearing the flag had a "skirt" on, the Boston Herald reported.

The group posted pictures on its Web site and scores of its supporters complained to Macy's by phone and e-mail.

Elina Kazan, a Macy's spokeswoman, said the store decided to remove the mannequins but leave the list of events in order to strike a balance. Displays in previous years did not use mannequins.

"We believe in diversity, and our customers are very important to us," Kazan said. "But (the display) did offend a few of our customers, and we had to re-examine it.

ACLU of Massachusetts spokeswoman Sarah Wunsch criticized Macy's for "succumbing to the bigotry" of what she said was a fringe anti-gay group.

Personally, while I don't agree with their idea of "diversity" this is a step in the right direction at least!

[Marnie]

In Massechusets gay marriage is legal, so this display would have also been legal. They have a right to their info out there as much as Christians, Jews, and other religions who are trying to find like minded people. Just because you don't agree with it does not mean they can't exist. They peacefully exist more than Christians co-exist with one another.

Since this is America, Christians, as well as anybody else for that matter, have the freedom to tell Macy's, Wal-Mart, or whoever what they think is offensive or not.

[RGR]

In Massechusets gay marriage is legal, so this display would have also been legal. They have a right to their info out there as much as Christians, Jews, and other religions who are trying to find like minded people. Just because you don't agree with it does not mean they can't exist. They peacefully exist more than Christians co-exist with one another.

So if pedophilia were legal (which, btw, is the next thing they'll try) would you defend it as well?

[Marnie]

So if pedophilia were legal (which, btw, is the next thing they'll try) would you defend it as well?

Personally, I would defend anybody's right to say anything, as long as it's legal. A private business can make any display it wants to and customers should be free to complain about it or not complain about it. Since your illustration is not legal, it won't happen. Society should be the arbiters of such things, not some beurocrat or the ACLU.

[Qun Mang]

So if pedophilia were legal (which, btw, is the next thing they'll try) would you defend it as well?

It is already being tried in the Netherlands...

[dakota190]

i just love the way the aclu thinks and how they affect the ways society at large view things. (being facetious) if we as christians object to something, it is bigotry, the latest politically correct by-word of the liberal agenda. if and when they object to what we think or hold dear, then it is a correct stance in the world today, and some how we debate if we are in the last days before Jesus returns. agreed we should not fear the end, but rather welcome the Lord, and i don't mean, we we should do anything to hasten it. as they accuse us of being small minded, i wonder how all those giant intellectuals will enjoy the wide open spaces and high browed discussions, of Hell? (i apologize if this strikes anyone as a rant, just because it became one)

[nebula]

i just love the way the aclu thinks and how they affect the ways society at large view things. (being facetious) if we as christians object to something, it is bigotry, the latest politically correct by-word of the liberal agenda. if and when they object to what we think or hold dear, then it is a correct stance in the world today, . . .

That's kind-of what I was thinking.

Consider the cross at the war memorial in California!

[O'Dannyboy]

I am beginning to believe that it won't be long before pro-family groups are forced to hold parades of their own. If people find it so easy to justify the "right" of Gays to parade around showing pride in their socially unacceptabe lifestyle, then the rest of us have just as much "right" to display our unity and belief in the "traditional" family unit.