One Million Moms Targets Comic With Gay Wedding
One Million Moms, the group that unsuccessfully tried to get Ellen DeGeneres booted from her JC Penney commercial gig, has a new target: the first mainstream comic book to feature a same-sex wedding.
The organization, affiliated with the antigay American Family Association, is calling on Toys R Us stores to cease carrying the issue of Life With Archie that portrays the wedding of Kevin Keller, the first gay character in the Archie Comics universe. Life With Archie is a series that follows Archie Andrews and his friends in the town of Riverdale past high school and into adulthood.
The One Million Moms website urges followers to let Toys R Us know they object to the display of the comic and threaten to boycott the retailer. The site provides a sample letter, reading in part, Unfortunately, children are now being exposed to same-sex marriage in your toy store. This is the last place a parent would expect to be confronted with questions from their children on topics that are too complicated for them to understand.
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