Christian hate groups are taking aim at Old Navy over the retailer’s decision to sell a line of gay pride t-shirts in a handful of stores during June LGBT pride month, suggesting that God-fearing homophobes take their business elsewhere.
According to Gary Cass of the anti-gay Christian Anti-Defamation Commission, Old Navy is promoting a lifestyle that is in “complete rebellion against God.”
“Rather just focusing on giving good products to their customers, they want to use their products now to advocate for a very controversial topic, much less a very immoral and very deadly topic,” notes Cass.
“Unfortunately we have to do the hard work of communicating our outrage, our frustration — and then following that up with some kind of practical expression such as taking your business elsewhere,” he suggests.
Over at the certified hate group, American Familiy Association — famous for such sound bites as “gays are Nazis” and the “#1 perpetrators of hate crimes in America” — are calling for a boycott:
Following their not-so-successful boycott campaign of Home Depot over the company’s sponsorship of gay pride parades, leaders of the American Family Association have called for the boycott of Old Navy because the store is planning to sell shirts to benefit the anti-suicide, anti-bullying It Gets Better Project.
Bryan Fischer, the group’s Director of Issues Analysis, already urged his listeners to “drop by your Old Navy store in your community and tell them you’re not going to shop at Old Navy until they get their minds right,” and now three other top AFA leaders have insisted that Christians boycott the clothing store.
According to Fischer, gays should be “ashamed” and “embarrassed,” not out celebrating pride.
Aren’t there, like, at least Ten Commandments these groups should be more concerned with enforcing?
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We bought a TON of these shirts.
facepalm
i like how its categorized “christian hate” groups. Why not just say christian?
I am so fucking sick of bible thumpers. Seriously. Worship my ass, motherfuckers.
sigh why don’t the Christians go and hate on other sins for a while
Ugh, Christians. WTF.
What is their morbid fascination with gay people? Get over it. You have lost this culture war.
sweet… so i go can in the store and not worry about running into a bigot… awesome!=)
I’m a Christian and I plan on going to Old Navy to buy one of these shirts and wear it to Church on sunday
they can suk my cok, we dont bitch bout ur ”i <3 christ'' shirts. this just pisses me off
I guess that means we’re going to anti-boycott Old Navy.
These people have no fucking life…lol
not all christians r like tht tho, i’m referencing the extremist ones
You can order the shirts from the stores that have them if you don’t have one in your neighborhood.
I looked at my old navy and they didnt have any.
These people need to shut up, get a grip on realty and shut the fuck up thier insane but mainly they need to shut up, just just the fuck up
I will no longer be following LGBTQ Nation. I appreciate the effort, and support the cause of gay rights unendingly. However, the bias, propaganda, stereotyping, and occasional hatred expressed towards large groups of people is not helping the cause. Additionally, it makes our cause appear to be no better than the cause of those who express hatred towards those who are LGBTQ. Please step up and take the high road. We’re better than this. (This is not directed at commenters; rather, at the page and its contributors/creators.)
OH MY GOD, THESE PEOPLE NEED TO FUCK OF ALREADY.
WOW.
I can’t find these shirts anywhere. :/
I’m off to buy one of these tomorrow :D
If they are real christians than they would leave the judging to god an except them for who they are becuzz god makes no mistakes, so they have no rite to judge them for being gay lesbian or bisexual becuzz we are all only human were not perfect so those so called “Christians” have no rite to judge becuzz god said for us to love one another not hate each other….
I WANT ONE!
I’LL BUY A LARGE!
Good For You Old Navy!!
Good For you Old Navy and Home Depot!! Thank you for taking a stand on the side of equality.
Sudsy,
A happily married (25 years)straight woman, and mother of 8, grandmother and great grandmother, who is waiting for the day when Equal Rights means exactly that.
Well, it looks like Old Navy got what they wanted publicity, publicity, publicity, and more and more publicity.
They didn’t even sell the shirts every where or even on their website so what, as a part of the LGBTQ community, are they looking for me to do, support them?
They didn’t come to my state to allow me to buy a shirt and show my pride so am I suppose to give them my support as thanks for their “brave cause”?
I think not.
WASHINGTON DC | JUNE 10th
Mr. Thompson,
I find it unfortunate that you are withdrawing your support of LGBTQNation due to what you perceive as an editorial policy that according to your standards mimics the Christiban extremists of the far-right.
You’re missing the point. These alleged “Family Values” and so called christian organisations are little more than hate filled propaganda factories that spew rhetoric that has in fact led to the deaths of at at least several hundred adolescents in the United States alone in just the past two years. Have you stopped to consider that very relevant and salient point sir?
Let me add this to the mix, these people do not listen, are not open to debate, and short of eradication of LGBTQ persons would not be negotiable to a peaceful coexistence with LGBTQ persons. High Road sir? Doesn’t exist with them and I can tell you as a Washington based correspondent and having interviewed the likes of Peter Spriggs and Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, they draw no quarter and there are no options. A person either is a family values christian or a person is an enemy of these persons.
During World War Two’s aftermath, a prominent German intellectual, Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller, wrote this:
First the Nazis came…
First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out —
because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out —
because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out —
because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out —
because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me —
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
You, my young friend, need to realise that there are historical precedents for the anger you see reflected in damn near all the leading LGBTQ publications, blogs, and media. We are better than them, yes. But sometimes young man, you need to fight the fight that needs winning and now, here, and in this place and others like it, you need to use the same harshness that is visited upon us by the Christonazis.
I’m sorry you disagree, but I, like many of my generation, desire to see an America where the children don’t kill themselves over a natural variant of the human species and its sexuality. That means sometimes, we need to be just as aggressive as they are in defence of our rights, our liberties, and protecting those who we must be able to love freely.
My Mum, a good Irish lady once said, ” Ye can’t agree with me then lad ye can leave and don’t be letting the door hit ya on the arse on the way out eh?” Harsh? maybe- but Mr. Thompson? You need to really do your research and realise jsut exactly how bad, bad can be.
Good Luck eh?
Sincerely,
Brody Levesque
Correspondent & Editor
BL Freelance News Service LLC
Washington D. C.
(202) 556-0877
[email protected]
What still astounds me with these Christian Family Groups is they seem to think that gay people have no families nor have any family values. They probably have more family values than heterosexual families. Gay people are just people wanting and needing the same things as these stupid hypocritical christians.
Jake is of course not being logical in that he does not understand the impact of a group of hypocrites imposing their beliefs on another group who are simply claiming their intrinsic human rights to be whom they are.
Like those closed minded bigots, Jake thinks that actively defending our right for equality, is an attack on their belief. Their beliefs are their problems, unless they try to impose them on others. We don’t care what they believe, but that worries them too.
Jake’s high road is a lowly submission to their faith in that they demand we abide by their rules. What worries them is that they think our rights are incompatible with their faith, and they attack us for what they see as our being unacceptable. It is their attack on us that is unacceptable. This non-acceptance is confused in his mind with our justified activism to be accepted as human equals. All they have to do is stop attacking us, stop trying to impose their dogma on us, and our activist defences will simply be orientated around claiming our birthright to pursue happiness equally with everyone else.
Jakey wakey, needs to wakie wakie to the reality of the battle, but I suspect he actually has Christian tendencies, and is offended by what he sees as an attack on his holier than thou brethren, and their misplaced religious crusade to denigrate the LGBTQ members of the human race any way they think fit.
I am a christian and called all over trying to find these shirts for me and 2 friends!! They didn’t have any near me and so I contacted Old Navy via email and was given stores that would have gotten them… After calling stores in 5 different states over 2 days I finally found them in MN!!! I live in CT!! I can’t wait to get mine!
People have to understand that the groups that call them selfs “Christians Groups” They are possesed by deamons. They are here to confuse the word of Jesus. He wasn’t here to judge but to save and anyone here creating group claiming to be christian are trying to confuse the word. Jesus picked up a whore and loved her just the same and saved her.
Here’s what I did – the website for their form-letter is here:
http://secure.afa.net/afa/activism/TakeAction.asp?id=395
My Subject Line:
Please do NOT cave in to the AFA
My email text:
Dear President Wyatt:
You are soon going to be bombarded by a slew of form-letter emails from supporters of the American Family Association (AFA), the contents of which are included below.
I would implore you to continue your great work with the “It Gets Better Project” and reject the inherent bigotry of the Tim Wildmon, the AFA and their ideological cohorts.
Thank you.
++++++++++ Begin Form Letter +++++++
I think Old Navy’s decision to promote and financially support homosexuality is a bad business decision.
Parents will think twice before buying summer and back-to-school clothes from a company they know is donating profits to highly divisive social activist groups.
I encourage you to reconsider selling “gay pride” shirts, even if in a limited number of stores.
+++++++++ End form Letter ++++++++
I completely understand the frustration, but comments like why call them christian hate groups and not just call them christians is completely unproductive. I am a christian and yet I do not believe there is anything wrong or against God with homosexuality. I think people should celebrate the way they were created to be and love who they want to love. There are many denominations that are open and welcoming to the gay community. It is sad that the ones who spew hate are the ones who get all the press because they don’t speak for me. And I’d rather not be slander by your lack of understanding. It’s just not helpful and doesn’t encourage real conversation.
So i went on AFA and used the form letter to send my own message once i rewrote it this is what it said I titled it “Religious Fucktards”
These religious extremist Nutjobs are out of there fucking minds and need to be stopped from spreading there hate towards all the people that do not follow there religious Ideologies. I am someone who always HATED Old Navy but now I will be shopping there because you are standing up for the equality of your fellow man. I respect your decision and fully support it as a straight man.
ps. I used their ridiculous form letter and rewrote it :D
i had to laugh when i came across your final comment in the article. I wrote something similar on facebook and NO ONE would comment.
“Can somebody tell me which one of the 10 commandments say thou shalt not be gay?”
Yeah, neither can the catholic church!
Well, Mr. Jake Thonpson, where are you with a well-argumented reaction to the above letter addressed to you?
Sometimes I wish the guy was right about the Christians being whisked away on May 21
Christians and the Church as a whole should be ashamed at how they handle these issues and should apologize to the gays and lesbians. I do not agree with the lifestyle but I do not believe in hating them. Let them have their tshirts let them have what they want. Jesus loves me as well as the Gay and lesbians in the world. Love should rule because if we would love then this world would be a better place. Not saying being Gay is right and also I am not saying that Christians hate is right. I am a Christian and I want to apologize on behalf of all Christians for the way we have treated you. God bless you all.
Hate the sin – not the sinner.
@ Jake Thompson You are so right.
I am also so sick of people knocking Christians! It makes me so sick to see on a daily basis on facebook and elsewhere people saying how judgemental and hateful we all are. These people that preach hate are a SMALL group of so called Christians. They do not speak for all of us. Jesus taught us to be loving, giving and NON JUDGEMENTAL people.All of you who are cursing and saying such ignorant things about Christians in general need to ask themselves “am I any better I too am spreading hate”. Also way to go on all the free publicity for these companies. Do you not think for a second this is why they are doing this? They don’t care who or what you do as long as you give them money. If they REALLY cared about the cause they would have had the shirts in all their stores.