Ellen DeGeneres on Wednesday publicly responded to the anti-gay group “One Million Moms,” which recently called on retailer JC Penney to fire her as their spokesperson because she is gay.
One Million Moms, “a project of the American Family Association” — an organization designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) — said that “DeGeneres is not a true representation of the type of families that shop at their store,” and called on JC Penney to stay out of the “culture war.”
In her monologue Wednesday, DeGeneres addressed the controversy for the first time, and said, “Normally I try not to pay attention to my haters, but this time, I’d like to talk about it because my haters are my motivators.”
“Not that anyone’s counting… for a group that calls themselves ‘One Million Moms,’ they only have 40,000 members on their (Facebook) page,” she added.
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JC Penney have been unwavering in their support for DeGeneres, and released a statement this week saying they “stand behind [their] partnership.”
“We share the same fundamental values as Ellen,” noted the company’s President, Michael Francis. “At J. C. Penney, we couldn’t think of a better partner to help us put the fun back into the retail experience.”
In a blog post on a AFA website earlier today, AFA spokesperson Bryan Fisher wrote that JC Penney’s hiring of DeGeneres will lead to more depression, suicide, and breast cancer among women who become lesbians due to the store’s choice of spokesperson.”
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congratulations to you and jcp rah rah rah
and I guess they think that Gays and Lesbians don’t have mommas too? Hmm. they haven’t met mine, she’d drop kick their sorry asses, cuz my momma loves me! ;)
Great Attitude Ellen.. One Million moms???? More like fourty thousand moms!!! You Go Ellen!!!
Thats Right! Let Em Be Your Motivation
Love it!!!! And all those mom’s are prob cheating on their husbands with younger men or even WOMEN!!! They are all just so unhappy that they have to bring everyone else down with them!
More like 1 million morons. GO ELLEN!!!
Oh man I love her!
Love Ellen!!!
Right on Ellen!!!
THIS mama supports Ellen! Shame on those moms! Each and everyone!
How could you hate her. Ever?!
Ellen you are awesome. Congratulations for making a good decision to partner with JC Penny they are a corporation with integrity.
Ellen is my hero.
Awesome..Ellen you rock
I love her so much.
go ellen and jc =]
They round to the nearest million? lol… i guess they couldn’t find 960,000 other bigots to join their hateful parade
Go Ellen
LOVE Ellen! So proud of JC Penney too!
I have no clue as to why there are so much haters in the world today. I mean look at past spokespeople thats out there today. If anything, people will shop more at jcp now than ever before. Yeah protesting will speak volumes but actions speak louder than words, in my opinion. I’m happy to say that I’m a gay male and no one, especially a group of narrow minded people are going to stop me from living my life. So to all the hatera out there I say this *in my classic Flo impression* “Kiss my grits!!”
For the “one million moms” I want face book to make a dislike button. =] Ellen’s Awesome.
Go Ellen.
GO ELLEN! <3 <3
I weep for their kids.
Go Ellen…I have always liked JCP and now I love them and applaud them for standing their ground!!!
Haters go away!
Well put Ellen. Every day you become more and more my hero.
go Ellen & J.C.Penny….I am one of ur customers:-)
well i did watch ellen today, as i do every wednesday. i just wanna say hell yes! all the haters out there can go find a new topic or group to treat like crap! we (family) are not going anywhere! thanks ellen…..for speaking out for all of us!
I love you Ellen!
This is amazing and JC Penney has done the right thing!!
Wait, breast cancer? How’d they drag that into this?
Also, did anyone see Bill O’Reilly’s segment on this? It was surprisingly awesome.
Dear LGBTQ I cannot be long in responding to this as I am off to shop at JC Penney. Never shopped there before but now it sounds like a great corporation who supports all shoppers and spokespersons. Bye for now….
today her monologue was SO great!! i am proud to be a lesbian… ;-)
Wonder how many of the million moms gave birth to “gay babies” WHY CANT PEOPLE JUST LET IT GO?? GOOD JOB ELLEN!!!!
You go girl!
Oh wow that was awesome. Ellen, thank you! JCP, thank you.
Hmm…I can hardly see Ellens line creating a huge spike in “breast cancer, depression, suicides” and lesbians. But what do i know (at least i can count). A million moms, are more like 40,000 homophobes. Way to go, Ellen and JCP!
I bet some of those forty thousand moms have gay sons and daughters what would they think and how would they feel if someone discriminated against their child
Ellen you are so awesome……make those ’1 million morons-opps, moms’, EAT THEIR WORDS!!!!
Can someone plz email me the link to youtube? For the vid?
Way ta go Ellen..Very eloquent! F*** One Million Morons! (And they only have around 40,000 members…MORE lies from the Reich Wing!)
Hi, let’s get one million (likes), ,,, We love Ellen. JCP has my support !!!!
FOR ELLEN FANS https://www.facebook.com/groups/225498354210776/
Judging a person does not define who they are. It defines who YOU are!!!!!!!!!! Come on!!! One Million get u some business!!!!!! This is petty.
Woooooh! Ellen!!! :]
ELLEN ROCKS!!!
1M Moms? 40K Moms? Who cares?!?!? If they’re this conservative, they’re probably the type that make their kids ugly clothes at home anyway.
and i stand by ur values too ellen. :) boo hoo haters! haha.
Well done Ellen. God help the children of “1 million mom’s” 40,000 members, if they turn out to be anything other than what their parents have prescribed for them! & “Culture war”!! Really!! There’s nothing going on in the world that you think might be more important than gay people being gay with themselves!?
Good for you Ellen!!! What a bunch of hags.
go ellen!
You go Ellen!!! I just love JC Penneys!!!!!
Please go and like the page ” One Million and One JCPenney Mom’s ‘ if you support JCPenney for not firing Ellen for being gay!
I stand for Ellen and JC Penney too. These hate groups hiding behind their groups/associations with the guise of standing for values is complete and utter hypocrisy. Ellen’s comment “my haters are my motivators” is very inspiring as is she and all she takes a stand for.
I love it..
Take Action: Please Sign the petition to thank JC Penney for supporting Ellen Degeneres.
https://apps.facebook.com/petitions/1/Thank-JC-Penney-For-Ellen-DeGeneres-Partnership/
I don’t understand how it is at all possible to NOT love Ellen. What a wonderful woman! The human race is lucky to have her.
Ellen must of been playing some Jill Scott on her MP3 player Hate On Haters hate on me.