Tuesday, April 19, 2005

It's, Like, Really Gross!

Dan Kennedy has the story of how the anti-gay Article 8 Alliance is getting Bay Windows banned at local supermarkets. For those who don't know, Bay Windows is the Boston Area's weekly gay and lesbian newspaper and as the Herald reports Shaws and Stop & Shop have stopped carrying it due to sexual content in the personals section. Stop & Shop, at least, seems willing to distribute copies of the paper without the personal ads. That seems fair to me, but it's not enough for Brian Camenker, director of the Article 8 Alliance

From the Herald Article:

"The ads were just part of it," Camenker said.

"They're really sort of disgusting, anti-family, anti-religion. The paper is full of, like, really gross stuff," Camenker said.
I think the Article 8 Alliance is really on to something here. I hereby demand that Shaws and Stop & Shop stop selling the following items, as I find them, like, really gross:
  • Brussels Sprouts
  • Bananas
  • Dessert Tofu, particularly the Key Lime
  • Spray Cheeze
  • Flavored Water
  • White Zinfandel
  • The entire feminine hygiene aisle (sorry ladies, but c'mon!)
  • Peanut butter and jelly mixed together. It is unnatural.
Also, I think those lobsters present a very anti-family message! Crawling nude all over each other in that tiny tank. If Shaws and Stop & Shop can't house their lobsters like nature intended -- one male and one female in each tank until they are eaten -- I'm afraid I'll have to organize a boycott.