American Girl Magazine under fire for highlighting 'sins' (gay couple)

[Morphine Prince 109,655]

American Girl magazine is under fire from a controversial parenting group for running an article about an 11-year-old foster child with two dads.

One Million Moms has called for a boycott of American Girl products and its parent company, Mattel, warning parents to “be careful” not to expose their kids to the story to “avoid a premature conversation she is far too young to understand.” The group said the magazine should have “chosen another child to write about and remained neutral in the culture war.” It added, “American Girl is attempting to desensitize our youth by featuring a family with two dads,” then drew on the Bible: “Scripture says multiple times that homos-xuality is wrong, and God will not tolerate this sinful nature. American Girl doesn’t highlight other sins in their magazine.”

American Girl magazine’s story, which appeared in the November/December 2015 issue, tells the story of Amaya Sheer, an 11-year-old from Maryland who is one of four black children the Sheer family has adopted. The article was written by an adult but is told through Amaya’s perspective, outlining how she and her brothers arrived at the Sheer family’s home as foster children with only a trash bag full of personal belongings. In the story, Amaya discusses her father, Rob Sheer, and his charity, Comfort Cases, an organization dedicated to providing backpacks to foster children filled with life’s daily necessities — from pajamas and toothbrushes to stuffed animals and blankets. The story, headlined “Forever Family,” also featured a photo of Amaya and her brothers with their fathers, Rob (“Daddy”) and Reese (“DaDa”).

Rob Sheer, once a foster child himself, says he wasn’t surprised by the outcry. “I don’t live in a plastic bubble. I am a gay man, and I have four African-American kids. I understand people out there are ugly,” he tells the Washington Post.

What “shocked” him, though? That a moms’ group is speaking out against his family. “I didn’t expect a group of moms to say we are sinners,” he said. “I look at a woman and see someone who has given so much love to bring a child into this world. … How could that same person look at these four children and say they don’t deserve that unconditional love?”

The Sheer family has received rude phone calls to their home, but also an outpouring of support, especially from their church congregation, they say. Wrote one commenter in an NBC article: “It is so sad that anyone who calls themselves a ‘Mom’ can look at happy children with loving parents — especially a child and family like this who are trying to help other children in need as Jesus himself would ask us to do — and only speak hate. This family is the face of love in the service of others.”

Source: https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/american-girl-magazine-boycotted-for-highlighting-154800145.html

 

[Dunk96 2,526]

One Million Moms need to get laid and shut up and they need to get over the fact that there's gay couples. Whoop di freaking do. Get a life you menopausal cry babies.

[imwoahvicky 4,248]

It's sad that they would rather worry about a gay couple then have respect for what they do to help charities.

[Voltaire 4,531]

The response from the Dads and their church is perfectly classy and really says it all. Hopefully this extreme response does what it has done before with other ridiculous issues: push the crazies closer to the edge while the vast majority cringes at their lunacy.

[Bebe 17,289]

 The group said the magazine should have “chosen another child to write about and remained neutral in the culture war.”

That's not staying neutral, that's continuing to only reflect on heteronormative and traditional families. These sort of families exist and they deserve some form of representation.

These people don't care about the kids, they don't care to know that they feel loved and supported by their gay parents. They want these children to feel ashamed and ostracized so that they can continue to say that children raised in these situations are not happy. 

[LeoFameMonster 1,592]

1 million mom's is really only like 100 women who have basic internet skills sending hateful emails.

Pay them no mind.....I bet God sure doesn't

 

 

[Bebe 17,289]

Also every time 'One Million Moms' is mentioned I can't help but reflect on how clever, yet deviously evil, their name is. I remember the first time I heard about them articles were joking that they only had 100 or so FB likes, but obviously it has grown from there due to the media attention.

"One Million Moms threaten to boycott......" is a hell of a headline, it makes it seem as if there are actually a million mothers who are protesting or boycotting. It didn't really matter that the organisation only had a hundred or so casual members when media started reporting on them, their name made for a clickbait title.

[Qualle1 1,385]

One Million Monsters.

[Batwings 12,957]

Um, excuse me, but they obviously haven't listened to the iconic album BORN THIS WAY. Bunch of flops.