From EW, The conservative organization One Million Moms wants Toys R Us to stop stocking an Archie comic book that features a gay wedding. In the story, the character Kevin Keller gets hitched to Clay, whom he met in a military hospital after being wounded in the armed services. The marriage occurs in Life With Archie #16, featuring a cover depicting the nuptials, and featuring a banner saying, “Just Married.”
The One Million Moms letter, as quoted in the publishing blog GalleyCat, asserts, “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.” It concludes, “Please remove all the same-sex ‘Just Married – Archie’ comic books immediately from your shelves. My decision to shop in your stores depends on it.” This issue of the long-running comic has been available in comic book stores since January.
I guess the TV version of The Archies is going to have to grapple with this:
“Falling in love is fun for everyone,” trill the Archies. Well, not to everyone, according to these angry moms.
4 comments:
I never thought I'd see the day where Archie Comics became controversial.
One Million Moms should go fuck themselves.
Okay, I hate Archie etc. but now I'm an Archie fan.
Man, those moms are going to be pissed when the meth issue comes out.
Loved the pretty colors in the video, but now I'm retroactively disappointed with every woman I've been involved with for never carrying around a sign with my picture on it.
Thanks a lot, Archie.
so this isn't just another jordan prank, huh?
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