One Million Moms--anyone else heard about this?

[QueenNocturne]

So, a fundie-lite old high school classmate of mine recently 'liked' on Facebook a page called One Million Moms. At first they seemed like a Christian activist group...that seemed to go way overboard, drumming up protests for a Febreeze ad containing "Oh my God" for instance, and many of the members's posts are attacks on evolution, homosexuality, and gratuitous Bible verses.

The site is even more of a doozy. You know the J Crew catalogue with the mom painting her son's toenails pink? Yeah, they're protesting that. And the Dentene Safe Breath commercials. And the "It Gets Better Project." And the show "Glee" because it's not "family friendly entertainment." (No shit, Sherlock. It's not supposed to be.)

I looked up their main site and, what a surprise, they're a division of the American Family Association. Yeah, the one designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Anyone else heard of this particular group before? Oh, and here's the site if you feel like snarking: http://www.onemillionmoms.com/

[BlackHawk]

Old Navy is now selling "gay pride" T-shirts in support of President Obama's proclamation designating June as "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month."

Uhm.. I have barely read anything here and I just have to stop there and laugh out loud. Obama was not the inventor of June pride... Pride has been held in June as long as I can remember. I just find it hilarious that they are trying to make it out like Obama is the evil that let Pride in.

[Austin]

Never has the exhortation to "get a life" been more appropriate than for that group.

I get their "outrage" at some (a few) of the things, but most of it . . . my reaction is just a sarcastic "really :?: "

[O Latin]

What's wrong with Glee? I know they mention sex sometimes and there was that whole episode about alcohol, so maybe not appropriate for, say, a five-year-old, but it always seemed pretty tame to me.

And anyway, that's why all the TVs nowadays come with parental control options. If you don't want your kid watching something then don't let them watch it, but I like some of my "not family friendly" TV shows. When did we decide that everything on TV has to be family friendly?

[CelticGoddess]

Uhm.. I have barely read anything here and I just have to stop there and laugh out loud. Obama was not the inventor of June pride... Pride has been held in June as long as I can remember. I just find it hilarious that they are trying to make it out like Obama is the evil that let Pride in.

Obama is the scary smart black man! :? I don't understand the teabaggers, the AFA boneheads, etc. I ran into an AFA supporter not long ago and thanked them for the info. I needed to know who to support!

[lilwriter85]

I heard about this recently on another message board I sometimes post on. One member there made a thread to try and encourage people to boycott ABC's new show Good Christian Belles which was previously titled Good Christian Bitches and she mentioned One Million Moms. One Million Moms doesn't want the show to air because it supposed to be a satire about women who scheme within their Christian communities.

I looked through the site the other day and their attempts to get protest or get shows off the air are laughable. They are basically another version of Parents Television Council. Groups like OMM and PTC don't realize that really can't influence advertisers or TV networks that much. They have been targeting Glee, FOX and the advertisers for awhile and they can't see they have zero impact power. If they looked at the history of FOX they would see that network doesn't care about controversy or anything being family friendly. FOX's first controversy was in the late 80's when a woman called for a boycott of Married with Children. FOX did withhold one episode from airing and the network gained viewers because of Terri Rakolta going on talk shows saying how bad MWC was. People tuned into FOX to see what MWC really was and they became fans. Since then FOX doesn't keel over right away when people protest their programming. PTC in the past managed to get advertisers to pull out from certain programs but now in days most advertisers don't really care if the shows they are advertising on are family friendly.

[Austin]

These sorts never let facts get in the way of good, old-fashioned fearmongering. :roll:

[lilwriter85]

What's wrong with Glee? I know they mention sex sometimes and there was that whole episode about alcohol, so maybe not appropriate for, say, a five-year-old, but it always seemed pretty tame to me.

And anyway, that's why all the TVs nowadays come with parental control options. If you don't want your kid watching something then don't let them watch it, but I like some of my "not family friendly" TV shows. When did we decide that everything on TV has to be family friendly?

I think with One Millon Moms the big issue they have with the show is the GLB characters. They recently complained about the episode Born This Way and they encouraged people to send letters to Burger King, Boost and other advertisers to pull their ad's from Glee.

[Charliemae]

What's wrong with Glee? I know they mention sex sometimes and there was that whole episode about alcohol, so maybe not appropriate for, say, a five-year-old, but it always seemed pretty tame to me.

And anyway, that's why all the TVs nowadays come with parental control options. If you don't want your kid watching something then don't let them watch it, but I like some of my "not family friendly" TV shows. When did we decide that everything on TV has to be family friendly?

I LOVE Glee with my whole heart. I wouldn't consider if appropriate for most people under high school age. There are some pretty spicy sex scenes (for tv), drugs, alcohol, race and gender slurs. But I strongly suspect that with this group what really gets their panties in a twist is teh ebil gayz on the show. :gay-color: Can't go around acting like it's not a choice dontchaknow.

[daharyn]

Pride is held in June as a commemoration of the uprising at Stonewall, which occurred in late June 1969. NYC Pride is always the fourth Sunday in June, and other places have spread out their celebrations over time, so that the entire month of June has become pride month.

Given that President Obama would've been all of seven or eight years old when the Stonewall riots happened, and not at all near NYC, I'm pretty sure this one isn't his fault...! 0.o

[QueenNocturne]

A & F's s*xually explicit posters have images of models posing n*de with parts blurred out, full rear n*dity of a male and men and women with clothes barely covering themselves wadded up so you can tell nothing about the article of clothing they are attempting to sell.

Oh, how quaint. They apparently won't even say "sex" or "nude."

Actually, the real reason they did that was apparently to bypass internet filters. Which begs the question: what type of person would have their internet filters so strict that they can't even see the word "sex"?

[debrand]

Please send an email letter to Procter and Gamble regarding their new Febreze commercial and ask that they pull this ad immediately or at least replace the dialogue that many Christians find offensive by omitting the phrase "Oh, my God!"

They want the Frebeze commercial to stop using the phrase "Oh, my god!" Really? I don't believe that these people don't have more important things to do.

They dislike the Axe commerical with the fallen angels.

you have seen it then you know what OMM is concerned over. The new commercial for AXE is beyond repulsive! AXE, owned by Unilever, produces men's deodorant, body wash and body spray and has outdone itself in shocking audiences with outrageous ads.

Their newest commercial has angels falling from the sky. After the angels stand up from the jarring fall, they grab their glowing halos and throw them on the pavement which causes them to shatter into small pieces. This happens repeatedly and ends with several angels walking towards a man apparently wearing AXE. The tagline is "Even Angels Will Fall!"

This is degrading and irresponsible for AXE to stoop so low. To mock Christianity is inexcusable!

Don't many cultures have angels or messengers in their belief systems? I didnt know that One Million Moms had copyrighted angels for Christianity.

[Austin]

They want the Frebeze commercial to stop using the phrase "Oh, my god!" Really?

This sort of thing actually seems to be their idea of a "world problem". I would write "lol" after that, except that it is so pathetic.

They seem to believe that they have the right NOT to be offended, and only they are the arbiters of what is offensive. :roll:

[ThisOlGirl]

This sort of thing actually seems to be their idea of a "world problem". I would write "lol" after that, except that it is so pathetic.

They seem to believe that they have the right NOT to be offended, and only they are the arbiters of what is offensive. :roll:

I wonder sometimes if these people feel like they can't really bring about change concerning the big stuff, so they focus on the small insignificant stuff. It's kind of like "Oh sure there are people all over the world starving to death, but hey, at least I fought to keep my kids from seeing two dudes kiss on tv. Look at me, I'm an activist!"

[QueenNocturne]

I find it hilarious that these are likely the type of people who would be outraged at any attempt to tell them how to raise their children...and yet want the entire world to change for them.

A bit ironic, eh?

[Lainey]

My god...it's as if Dolores Umbridge had a website! :shock:

[Witsec6]

My god...it's as if Dolores Umbridge had a website! :shock:

Harry Potter Love!

Honestly, there are lots of these kinds of sites. One that is vastly more successful, but just as silly, is http://www.commonsensemedia.org/. Their ratings are actually used on Netflix's streaming service (at least in Canada), but it's really just a bunch of busybody parents with nothing better to do than rate books and movies according to how the characters "might be a bad influence" on children. It's scary because they really are influencing major companies like Netflix!

[lilwriter85]

I wonder sometimes if these people feel like they can't really bring about change concerning the big stuff, so they focus on the small insignificant stuff. It's kind of like "Oh sure there are people all over the world starving to death, but hey, at least I fought to keep my kids from seeing two dudes kiss on tv. Look at me, I'm an activist!"

I wonder the same thing too about this group and similar groups like PTC. Some of these people probably love being the "God fearing activist who are protecting children from the ebil media. As I mentioned before, OMM is a lot like PTC. I have found that the people who belong to OMM or PTC tend have very unrealistic expectations of the media. I used to post often on a TV related message board and a few people said they were members of PTC and some of this stuff these people posted was pretty stupid and unrealistic. One guy there was constantly whining about how most shows on TV aren't family friendly. This guy was also a big fan of The Wonder Years and he once said that it was injustice in the TV industry that shows like Roseanne, Married with Children, Friends lasted longer than The Wonder Years. I thought it was pretty dumb and this guy had no understanding of how things work in the industry.

Married with Children and Friends were on different networks from Wonder Years and those networks made the decisions of how long those shows lasted. Roseanne was on the same network as Wonder Years but the network kept Roseanne around longer because it was cheaper to produce and the premise of the show was set up to last more than 5 years . The Wonder Years had a very limited story time frame and it was very costly to produce. Also the creator of the show was satisfied with the show ending when it did. There was no way a show about a kid growing up would have lasted 8-10 years.

This Wonder Years fan posted a lot of stupid theories about the media. Another poster on the message board joined PTC and later said on the boards that PTC has a sketchy reputation and they are known to not respond to phone calls or emails.

OMM is trying very hard to be like PTC and probably a lot of the women associated with this group likely have no understanding of what goes in the media and in advertising. Advertisers for the most part aren't going to care if OMM doesn't like that they are advertising during a show that shows two men or two women kissing. Advertiser, NBC or ABC probably aren't going to care this fall when they receive complaints from OMM about The Playboy Club or Good Christian Belles.

[FundiesInMyFamily]

All of this reminds me of Tipper Gore and the PMRC and what they tried to do to rock music in the 80's (aging headbanger here lol). They had the "dirty dozen", the top 12 most offensive albums and thought everyone was satanic. They were just a bunch of bored senators' wives and in the end those "parental warning" stickers just made all of us want to buy the albums more, and sales of the "dirty dozen" albums soared.

My favorite memory from that era was when Dee Snider of Twisted Sister testified in one of their senate hearings; they expected a scary satanic baby killer and in real life he's a tea totaler, doesn't smoke, drink, or do drugs, was married and had a whole bunch of kids.

[pomology]

Uhm.. I have barely read anything here and I just have to stop there and laugh out loud. Obama was not the inventor of June pride... Pride has been held in June as long as I can remember. I just find it hilarious that they are trying to make it out like Obama is the evil that let Pride in.

I read on Wikipedia that Pride is held in June because the Stonewall riots were in June. But yeah, Obama is totally responsible for riots that happened when he was a little kid on the opposite side of country (or was he in Indonesia at that point. I don't know. BUT THE POINT IS HE IS A SCARY MUSLIM NONAMERICAN GAY SOCIALIST.)

[Effie]

Haha yeah I've heard of it. I've added a subscription, and whenever they have a cause they send me an e-mail. In each e-mail they have a link to an already composed e-mail with an e-mail address where to send complaints. Instead of sending the composed e-mail I change it. For example I send my thanks to the companies which support same sex marriage. (So I'm having some fun thanking all the people which they criticize. )

[Wolfie]

Not entirely the same thing, but I had to laugh at this that somebody who kept trying to get me to go out on a date with him in college posted to his facebook.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid= ... e=1&ref=nf

[Childless]

These people don't care about anything other than trying to control everyone else. If they did, then they'd be doing things like bringing attention to child abuse, the sex industry, or orphan care instead of stupid crap that doesn't matter like tv programming.

If you don't want your kid watching something on tv, then step up and be a parent and make sure they don't tune in. Don't put a tv in their bedroom. Pay attention to them and make sure you know what their watching. Stop being lazy and be a parent. It's not the rest of the world's job to make sure your child doesn't see or hear anything you don't want them to see or hear.

[kaetrin]

What's wrong with Glee? I know they mention sex sometimes and there was that whole episode about alcohol, so maybe not appropriate for, say, a five-year-old, but it always seemed pretty tame to me.

And anyway, that's why all the TVs nowadays come with parental control options. If you don't want your kid watching something then don't let them watch it, but I like some of my "not family friendly" TV shows. When did we decide that everything on TV has to be family friendly?

I think that the fundies often don't have (or consciously reject) any ability to make moral distinctions based on situation. Maybe they think it's dangerously close to "moral relativism!!111!!!" but I've heard this sort of thing SO many times. Take modesty, for instance. How many young maidens argue against wearing a swimsuit because "well, you wouldn't wear one in church" so clearly it is wrong in all circumstances. The argument about family-friendly TV is similar, although less overtly expressed. If the 5 year old shouldn't be watching it, there must be something "wrong" about it and thus they are hard pressed to justify its suitability for ANYONE. (Violent war movies always manage to be an exception, though.)

[lilwriter85]

Haha yeah I've heard of it. I've added a subscription, and whenever they have a cause they send me an e-mail. In each e-mail they have a link to an already composed e-mail with an e-mail address where to send complaints. Instead of sending the composed e-mail I change it. For example I send my thanks to the companies which support same sex marriage. (So I'm having some fun thanking all the people which they criticize. )

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