Thanks to Dan Parent for making me aware of this...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/28/one-million-moms-toys-r-us-archie-comics_n_1307689.html

A group called One Million Moms, which apparently threatened to boycott JC Penney after they made Ellen their spokesperson, is now threatening to boycott Toys "R" Us over the Kevin Keller wedding issue of Life With Archie.

While I understand their concerns, boycotting an entire store because they don't approve of something that kids might be exposed to is a bit extreme in my opinion.

I just read the statement from these idiots and I was surprised to learn that Toys R Us carries Life with Archie on a rack at the checkout.  My local Toys R Us puts it on the comic rack in the back of the store.  If they're telling the truth, props to TRU for putting Life With Archie in a visible location. 

My local grocery stores keep Life With Archie on the magazine rack.  I certainly see lots of kids of all ages in grocery stores.  If TRU tells them to bug off will they go after Kroger next?

The One Million Moms are all the same...judgmental, religious housewives who are so bored with their lives that they feel it their mission to try and destroy everyone else's.

They remind me of Helen Lovejoy from The Simpsons multiplied by...a million.

Hm...

1. Possibly talk with kids about the various cultures, religions, and differences of people by, perhaps, parenting in some manner. And explaining it in a way they can understand, maybe do research even.

2. Cause a big fuss over something and be sure to annoy and anger a large number of additional people

Choices, choices...

Stupidity doesn't check calanders or make a time schedule.

It reminds me of what I mentioned previously about "small victories" and baby-steps. In the 1960s, it was considered a big win to get homosexuality put into it's own category in the National Library or whatever- previously, it was listed under "Sexual Deviancies and Crimes (including Rape)" Basically, rather than try to make gay marriage okay or try to get the Psychiatric Association to consider being gay NOT a mental illness (no, really) right off the bat or what have you (any attempts would surely fail immediately), the first steps had to be small. Over the decades, there's been a gradual increase in gay-themed things that would have been banned or disallowed in another era. There were a couple of one-shot gay characters in 1970s TV shows, but by the '90s, there were MAIN characters who were gay. Then gay marriage got legalized in several places, and now there's a gay character in ARCHIE, previously the most milquetoast and least-controversial of all comics. That's a huge win, and an example of how these "small victories" have added up. A gay wedding is just icing on the cake.

I mean, some people here complained that the cover featured no wedding stuff and the issue had no kissing, but really, that just adds to Archie's power here. Two guys got married. That's it. There wasn't any kissing or hugging or any of that stuff... it's easy firepower to use against controversy. It's really hard to take claims of Archie corrupting children seriously when there wasn't so much as a peck in here. It didn't even say "gay wedding" on the cover (note that NONE of Kevin's covers have said such things)- it just said a guy got married. More ammo. that isn't to say they should NEVER show such things, but with "baby steps", they can ease into the larger victories.

Basically, I think these backwater bigot groups are just mad because they've lost a huge amount of ground. When ARCHIE of all people is leading the fight for tolerance of gay people, it reminds them of just how badly they're losing their war on gay people. They recognize clearly that acceptance is rising, and fewer people than ever are subscribing to "Big Religion", and they don't like it.

Is Archie promoting the use of illegal substances? No. Is it promoting the use of alcohol? No. Is it sending messages to young women/ men about what they are "expected" to do to be excepted? No. What happened? Kevin Keller is a gay man who got married. It's not the Apocolypse. Fire isn't raining down from the sky and a plague of frogs isn't running rampid throughout towns and cities. One Million Moms need to get over themselves. This is 2012, not 1948.

Enough said.

These "moms" probably protested tinkie winkie's purse as well. Happy Archie's staff is standing behind Kevin and not backing down to the hate! Kevin Keller is awesome and more kids should read Archie comics regardless! Archie's world is a place where diversity is respected. These "moms" need to get a life.