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October 15, 2009

BUT IS IT WORSE THAN GAY MARRIAGE?

The American Family Association has called on 7-Eleven stores to reconsider their decision to sell the November issue of Playboy, which will have a two-page centerfold featuring Marge Simpson, the mother on the Fox animated series The Simpsons.

"Most American dads know the dangers that porn represents to young males. It's irresponsible of 7-Eleven to display porn in front of boys who pop into 7-11s for a hot dog or a Slurpee," said Randy Sharp, AFA Special Projects Director.

"The cover will create the kind of curiosity that can easily lead them into an addictive porn habit," he said. "This is not what American families want to see in their neighborhood convenience store."

Monica Cole, Director of AFA's OneMillionMoms.com, and a mother herself, finds 7-Eleven's decision deeply offensive. "Marge Simpson on the cover of Playboy is disturbing on so many levels," she said. "7-Eleven has to know that using an animated character on the cover of a pornographic magazine is deceptive and harmful because it will attract the attention of children.

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Eh, they still get bibles in hotels. Maybe they could call it an overall victory. You know, count their blessings or whatever.

Or maybe they could move to crazy town in a jesus truck. Maybe find a nice house on the-priest-is-raping-my-kids street.

Does anyone really take christianity that seriously? Because it seems like they're all just putting us on. Like some kind of Andy Garcia or Ali G shtick.

October 15, 2009 2:20 PM  
Blogger Nameless Cynic said...

Because god knows that when I want to get my animated porn fix, the first person I think of is Marge Simpson.

That's a hot momma right there...

October 15, 2009 3:00 PM  
Anonymous oedipal bart said...

Don't have a cow, Man!

October 15, 2009 4:56 PM  

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