Christian campaign group One Million Moms is furious about a 30-second commercial for an organic mattress and pillow company. Not only does the advert in question, by a brand called Avocado, feature two same-sex couples, but it dares to state “Love is Pure … And Natural.”
Here’s the innocuous advert below, which actually first appeared online back in August.
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One Million Moms sent the following email to its supporters late last week, urging people to sign yet another petition to register their disgust.
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“Avocado Mattress should be ashamed of its commercial for attempting to normalize sin by featuring same-sex couples in bed together. The newest commercial for organic mattresses not only promotes same-sex relationships by including a lesbian couple and a homosexual couple who are both very much together and cuddling, but also glamorizes it by being misleading.
“The ad states, ‘Love is Pure … And Natural.’ There is nothing pure or natural about homosexuality. The advertisement ends with these words: ‘With enough love, we can change the world. Avocado, natural as love.’
“Promoting same-sex relationships has nothing to do with marketing the product. Yet Avocado wants to make it clear where the company stands on this controversial topic, instead of remaining neutral in the culture war. One Million Moms continues to stand up for biblical truth, which is very clear about this particular sexual perversion (Romans 1:26-27).
“There is great concern about the way this advertisement is pushing the LGBTQ agenda especially when children are likely to be watching television. To make matters worse, this advertisement has aired during family viewing time.”
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Do you think One Million Moms realizes that thousands of kids in the US have same-sex parents? Or gay aunts and uncles?
Anyway, we’d not actually heard about Avocado mattresses and pillows before One Million Moms got irate about them, so perhaps we should thank them for putting another LGBTQ-friendly brand on our radar.
There’s a chill in the air… get cozy with natural materials 🌿 Psst… our Bedding Sale ends soon: https://t.co/Wf0NLOxrux pic.twitter.com/8HSYabSmnl
— Avocado Green Brands (@AvocadoMattress) September 30, 2021
Cam
“”One Million Moms sent the following email to its supporters late last week, urging people to sign yet another petition to register their disgust.””
So they sent out 40 emails to their 37 supporters.
v6origal97
Exactly! At least they gave this internet ad some air time.
Jim
The “One Million Moms” are really fewer than 100,000 bigots and I suspect mostly men with a woman who poses as its front. They make a lot of noise, get some limited media coverage, mostly on social media, and usually give more free publicity to their “targets” than themselves. Ha ha on them.
Bo Hamrk
YES! free advertising for Avocado! If a baker refuses to bake a cake, Twitter can suspend a congressman for transphobia [Levine] Hey, it’s THEIR business and freedom of expression and speech is protected but not when you visit or utilize one and not apply by THEIR policies. Go to another provider if you cannot stomach others. Cakes are not a monopoly just as beds and cars for that matter. Don’t like a certain business… GTFA and support the one’s you do. No one HAS to go get a cake if the owner doesn’t want to bake it. There are others that will and LGBTQ+ HUMANS know that and have money to spend but NOT at places where people make them uncomfortable nor wanted. PURE and NATURAL. Read the so called Book of yours and act like a Xtian for G-DS sake
norm_gilbert
Need to change their name to 37 moms
novadude
“… make it clear where the company stands on this controversial topic, instead of remaining neutral in the culture war …”
So the OMM group is being “neutral” while spreading their brainwashing, cult-based nonsense?
Right…..
This is just another case of evil-doers trying to make bigotry, hate and rank hypocrisy look pretty by wrapping it in a thin layer of fake piety.
Lipstick on a pig, sweetie. Lipstick on a pig.
Bo Hamrk
Ha~Ha! OINK OINK goes the piggys
barryaksarben
SO neutral like CHik-fil-a or Target or one f the dozens of other homophobic businesses. And no Target is and always has been. They keep sending out messages about how they stopped donating to hate groups and then 6 months later they are caught doing it again. And WE ALL KNOW A MILLION MOMS is one angry crazy fake christian woman and about a thousand other nuts she has found as far from a million as possible
Jack Meoff
Meanwhile Avacado just celebrated all the free advertising they are receiving thanks to the Misinformed Moms group
Bo Hamrk
Youve got that right. Testing shows LGBTQ+ HUMANS are superior in intelligence and creativity
Bo Hamrk
LOVE the name! I know people with Mike Hunt, Pat McGroin and Hugh Anus
linedrive
Thanks to One Hundred Moms for raising awareness of this wonderful company.
Bo Hamrk
LOVE!
GrizzleyMichael
OMG these bitches have nothing to do in their pathetic lives and what is so perverted showing two men lying in bed. BITCH GET A LIFE
Bo Hamrk
Maybe they should ‘Get a WIFE’ It appears men aren’t doing it for them. “Batteries for you, Batteries for you, Batteries for EVERYONE! LQQK under your seats now as they vibrate… Work that ORGANISIM ladies! In-Her-Gyzer Keeps one Cuming and Cuming and … Pretend you’re a Playboy Bunny and BEAT THAT DRUM!”
BoomerMyles
Companies always get a major marketing boost after being boycotted by One Thousand Moms.
Thank you bigots!
MHaumesser
I’ve been thinking about buying a new mattress for a few months now. I think I will buy one from Avocado now that OMM has brought this advertisement to my attention. I would never have known about them otherwise.
Thank you OMM!
bohemedude
I couldn’t stop myself. I had to go to their Facebook page and give them my two-cents. I think we should launch a campaign to CANCEL One Million Moms
Bo Hamrk
There’s no chance for them against One Trillion+ Naturals ‘OTN’
ron2013
I actually am a member simply because they are a great source for gay resources I’ve not heard about from other places! LOL! They are an offshoot of a group in Tupelo, Mississippi that got their start (from the two members) trolling parking lots, writing down license plate numbers, and sending them to the local newspaper for publication. They really are a very small group of people that pretend to be more popular than they really are.
Bo Hamrk
It’s sad some people don’t know love and life only when they’re spreading hate. Their hearts are sick and THAT leads to a short lifespan. Oh the humanity!
Fahd
I suppose it’s a long way from the complaints of only a few, “”but let’s say million”, moms, but this reminds me of Russia and countries who’ve followed it’s lead (see Hungary) where “promoting” homosexuality is prohibited. Evil people get themselves elected and…
Kudos to companies who are presenting gay people and themes in their advertising. Visibility is the best way to diffuse prejudice and fear.
TomG
This company could not ask for better advertising than from “One million Moms”. Don’t they know that when they protest something it increases sales ?
Mr-DJ
More importantly, where do they stand on protesting the My Pillow Guy? Surely if they are so high and mighty moral, they have extensive protests against that whacko!
missvamp
gotta love hate mongers who end up boosting advertising for companies like this. idiots.
wiggie
“one million moms” should be called “one meddling mom” since it is literally just ONE person.
Kevan1
I’m offended by their fat, ugly faces and voices. So can we ban their ugly as-es?
vancouverdoug
Remember that “One Million Moms” is actually a small group of ad execs who make a fortune drumming up fake outrage that gets products free publicity like this. Its been happening for over 10 years now.
barryaksarben
BOYCOTT A T AND T since they are paying for 90% of the OAN budget
darkanser
It’s funny how they decide what remaining neutral is. They don’t see the ABSENCE of certain images as waging a culture war or at least maintaining the status quo.
darkanser
There’s a Virginia GOP politician who is touting the BANNING of the works of acclaimed American author Toni Morrison. A mother decided that certain “explicit” language was traumatizing to her son — who in the 10 years since has become a lawyer. I can only imagine how this campaigning has driven up sales of Toni Morrison’s novels. Thanks GOP!!!
gaym50ish
The One Million Moms is misnamed. The most they can muster in their petition-signing campaigns is about 40,000. That’s approximately the number that signed a petition objecting to Ellen DeGeneres doing the JC Penney commercials. At the same time, Ellen’s TV show was drawing about 3 million viewers every weekday.