Ben & Jerry's Stands Up for Gay Marriage With Apple-y Ever After: Great Move, or Should They Stick to Ice Cream?
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2012/03/19 17:00:00
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First it was Schweddy Balls, then it was Lin-Sanity, now it's Apple-y Ever After. Ben & Jerry's has come up with its latest "controversial" ice cream flavor, and this one is meant to show support for a bill to legalize same-sex marriages in the U.K., Yahoo! reports.
The limited-edition flavor includes pieces of apple and chunks of pie crust. The cartoon design features two androgynous people in tuxedos standing on top of a wedding cake that bears the rainbow flag. Ben & Jerry's Europe is also urging members of parliament to support gay marriage, Yahoo! reports. They also created a Facebook app so users of the social network can marry their same-sex friends, "because everyone is equal and deserves to live Apple-y Ever After!"
The limited-edition flavor includes pieces of apple and chunks of pie crust. The cartoon design features two androgynous people in tuxedos standing on top of a wedding cake that bears the rainbow flag. Ben & Jerry's Europe is also urging members of parliament to support gay marriage, Yahoo! reports. They also created a Facebook app so users of the social network can marry their same-sex friends, "because everyone is equal and deserves to live Apple-y Ever After!"
"Sticking up for civil rights by a progressive company like Ben & Jerry's goes together like big chunks and swirls in ice cream," Sean Greenwood, a spokesman for Ben & Jerry's U.S. operation, told Yahoo! This is not the first time Ben & Jerry's has gotten involved in the gay marriage debate. In 2009, the company renamed "Chubby Hubby" to "Hubby Hubby" in support of gay marriage legislation in Vermont.
Do you think their latest flavor is a great (and tasty) addition to the push for gay rights? Or should the company just stick to making delicious ice cream?
Do you think their latest flavor is a great (and tasty) addition to the push for gay rights? Or should the company just stick to making delicious ice cream?
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Melizmatic 2012/03/19 18:10:54
Though there are some Christians who tend to go too far in seeking to impose Biblical morality on non-Christians, I and many others do not wish to do this and believe in "live and let live". But it is when LGBT advocates deny us the right to express our beliefs and seek to impose their view on us by forcing us to accept and support homosexuality that we must draw the line. Our response will be the same that Peter gave to those who tried to shut him up: "Judge for yourselves whether it is right for us to obey God or men." If the recent trend toward normalizing homosexuality doesn't stop things are going to get ugly. And the pro-LGBT side would do well not to underestimate the size and intensity of the opposition to their agenda.
Sincerely, a bisexual.
Oh, my God. I'm so sorry. I hope I didn't just give you nightmares. Here, I take it back. I'm not bisexual. I'm completely heterosexual, as is everyone else in the world. Because homosexuality, bisexuality, etcetera do not exist.
Is that what you'd like to hear?
I die, especially homosexual rights, which I believe very strongly in.
"Somehow in the past 20 years or so what the vast majority of mankind has known throughout history - that homosexuality is abnormal & destructive"
I'm sorry, have you ever heard of the ancient Greeks? They were are rather large part of human history, and a civilization much more advanced than we are today. Now, it seems to me that back in ancient Greece-- you know, about 4000 years ago-- they had no problem with homosexuality. It was accepted as being a normal part of life. And, come to think of it, the ancient Romans-- another huge part of history-- didn't seem to have much of an issue with it, either.
And, okay, I lied. There is one more thing I'd like to address. "All of this adds up to the reality that anyone who believes that homosexuality is normal and good has fallen for the biggest Mass Delusion since the Nazi regime." You do realize that the Nazis targeted homosexuals as well, don't you? So what, precisely, are you trying to say there? You're really sending mixed signals.
In comparing the recent "success" of the pro-LGBT movement to the rise of the Third Reich I am not saying that it is the same thing happening again. I am just saying that it is the same thing in terms of being a sudden and radical rejection of what was previously an almost universally-held morality. The Nazi's perpetrated a delusion that the Jews were evil, which the masses either embraced or were too afraid to resist. What I am saying is that the notion that homosexuality is normal and good is a delusion that millions have become convinced of, but one that is highly destructive, especially for individuals who have homosexual tendencies.
What is scary is that many who have bought into the pro-homosexual view tend to view Christians who disagree as evil. Consequently, I no longer consider it unthinkable that I will one day be sent to a "re-education camp" or worse because I will not give up my beliefs or stop talking about them. Fascism can take many forms and the Mass Delusion about homosexuality certainly opens the way to such things.
Coming this summer from the people who brought you Proposition 8... comes... PROPOSITION 8½!
With regards to your "facts"
1. sexual intercourse doesn't have to be for procreation. If it WERE limited to that, you would have to be JUST as upset about women past menopause and anyone who is no longer capable of reproducing; having sex. Your electrical cord annalogy is appropriate, in that if you plug one appliance into the wall, such as a TV, you'll get one result, but if you plug in a dish-washer, you'll get a different result; and if you plug in a lamp, another result all together. Much like sex. Also, if your cords are not covered with rubber, or if the rubber has a tear; the results could be disasterous. But otherwise, you're probably fine.
2. The crazy thing about bullying, and oppressive or hostile behavior of any kind; is that when society turns on it, like a wounded animal, those who practice it become even more intent on perpetrating that behavior. For an example of this, look at racists over the last 60 years. Each time black people have adv...
With regards to your "facts"
1. sexual intercourse doesn't have to be for procreation. If it WERE limited to that, you would have to be JUST as upset about women past menopause and anyone who is no longer capable of reproducing; having sex. Your electrical cord annalogy is appropriate, in that if you plug one appliance into the wall, such as a TV, you'll get one result, but if you plug in a dish-washer, you'll get a different result; and if you plug in a lamp, another result all together. Much like sex. Also, if your cords are not covered with rubber, or if the rubber has a tear; the results could be disasterous. But otherwise, you're probably fine.
2. The crazy thing about bullying, and oppressive or hostile behavior of any kind; is that when society turns on it, like a wounded animal, those who practice it become even more intent on perpetrating that behavior. For an example of this, look at racists over the last 60 years. Each time black people have advanced, bigoted white people (and I am white, so don't start) have tried to shout them back down, often violently. They shot Martin and Malcolm and the rise of the KKK in the 60's and 70's. Even up to the rise of the Tea Party as soon as President Obama was elected.
The same is true of bullying, and particularly of bullying the LGBT community. The more society turns against bullies of gays, the more those bullie's resolve grows, and the more vicious their tactics become.
3. Those who "change" their sexuality, are not gay, but bisexual. And many who CLAIM to change, don't really change at all. They simply force themselves to stop having sex with same-sex partners (and useually stop having sex at all) and possibly even find a way to have sex with an opposite-sex partner. But they are simply living a lie. The human will can force us to endure anything for a while. But it cannot change who we are at a fundamental level.
Also, Exodus International, and other snake-oil factories like it, are a plague on the poor misguided, desperate and often abused people, upon whom they prey. Their brain-washing guilt tactics are borrowed from cult-leaders like Jim Jones and David Koresh. And their results are no lest catastrophic in the lives of those they brainwash.
4. The same Bible which condemns homosexuality, has no law against slavery, child abuse, or human-sacrifice. In certain instances, it advocates genocide, sex-slavery, rape and murder.
If your god is real, and if homosexuality is so horrible, and all of these things are, at least under certain circumstances, perfectly alright; then your god is a sociopath, and is unworthy of worship under ANY circumstance. His laws do not apply to our national laws at all. You may follow his laws, but you may NOT force them on anyone else, per Amendment I of the United States Constitution.
5. Indisputable means there is evidence of your point. Perfect, undeniable, irrefutable evidence. You have no evidence of any kind, certainly not irrefutable. Therefore, to call your knowledge "indisputable" just proves that you don't even know what the word means. I dispute your knowledge. So do Ben and Jerry, and a lot of other people. More and more every day. Marriage WILL be made available to gay Americans. It will happen soon. And if your god has a problem with it, I dare him to stop it. And while he's at it, maybe he could stop HIS priests from molesting children.
But hey, if you want to run away from the Ice Cream section screaming about what the Bible says.. it leaves more ice cream for me!
I would think that the only people who WOULDN'T buy this are those that are so wrapped up in their Bibles that they can't think for themselves or those who are so scared of being called gay that they are afraid to buy it because some one may say something.
And again I think people miss one thing about the Ben & Jerry's brand.. it's always been progressive and political. They had Rainforest Crunch.. environmental issues, They had Hubby Hubby.. another gay rights rename, they've had ice cream flavors to support Obama, the Occupy Wall Street movement, and they stand up all the time for getting bovine growth hormones out of our cows and their milk. They are against the genetically altered food industry as well. This is just one more in a LONG line of ice cream flavors or renames to support a cause they believe in. It one of the reasons I do buy their ice cream. they are up front about who they are and what they believe in.
Doesn't Ben and Jerry sound like the names of the cute gay couple a few doors down anyway? ;P