Just in Time For Father’s Day: JCPenney Rolls Out Two Daddies Ad
- Posted on May 31, 2012 at 3:30pm by
Becket Adams
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Either the “One Million Moms” boycotts have been totally ineffectual, or there’s someone in JCPenney’s marketing department that really, really enjoys messing with the group.
With its latest catalog, and just in time for Father’s Day, the department store is once again making itself perfectly clear: it has no problem with same-sex couples.
Image courtesy Gawker
The two men in the ad are “real-life dads Todd Koch and Cooper Smith,” and the two children are their kids, Claire and Mason, according to Gawker.
“First Pals: What makes Dad so cool?” reads the ad’s copy. “He’s the swim coach, tent maker, best friend, bike fixer and hug giver – all rolled into one. Or two.”
As hinted at in the above, this isn’t a first for JCPenney. Back in May, the department store ran an ad featuring two lesbian mothers:
And before that, the company hired Ellen DeGeneres as a spokeswoman. Both actions prompted protests from the conservative mothers group which, apparently, have had no impact whatsoever on the store’s advertising campaigns.
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Comments (227)
ChiefGeorge
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:06pmI was just saying that since the debate about gay marriage is ragin, just watch the advertisement media roll out ads for gays….how about Viagra too! Here they are front and center. Oh the joy!
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 7:35pmWell JC Penney was already comiing out of chapter 11 – this should finish them. They just lost myself, wife, 3 sons, 3 daughter in-laws and 4 grandsons.I hope Sears never hires Ellen Degenerate because I do love Craftsman tools. My sons hate wal-mart so they are going to Target since they always have better prices. These people don’t go to church or they sleep thru services when Q_ueers ans L_izzies are discussed from actual book chapter and verse in the Bible.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 7:35pmYes, I bet everyone is perfectly willing to run to a store to buy clothing, when it is recommended by two Nancy Boys, that probably have doo doo stains on their Johnson….I’m betting those kids will see things around the house as they are growing up, that will take therapy to wipe from their minds, later in life.
Report Post »FreedomPurveyor
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 8:07pmWho cares?
Report Post »db321
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 8:07pmSee you – you foolish idiots – JC Pennies – your done!
Report Post »what4
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 8:56pmAnd Me JC Penney is tossing in his grave, todays idiots running that once proud company into the duece bowl!
Report Post »txbigfoot
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 9:59pmto FreedomPurveyor
Report Post »I care.. That’s who
obviously you dont so F off as they say
silentwatcher
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 10:04pm“Homosexuality is your choice. I disagree with it, but I won’t condemn you for it. Just don’t flaunt it in front of my face.” That has always been my motto.
JCPennys,,,you are flaunting it in my face. I have shopped your stores for many decades. I have literally spent thousands of dollars in your stores. You just lost the privilege of my presence.
Report Post »MAMMY_NUNN
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:55amIf they sexually experiment with others of the same sex how far is that from sexual experimentation of children ?
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 11:36am.
Report Post »I guess J.C. Penney wants gay shoppers. Fine.
Odd, since gays comprise 3% of the population.
Next will we have ads targeting people from Latvia?
No, J.C. Penny is pushing an agenda in my face.
But the good news?
I have lots of other choices.
JAMACAMECRAZYMAN
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:05pmThose two fellas look sooooooooooo hippity happy……………………..
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:10pmNotice how they promote adopt a multi-culture kid….why not make the two kids White? Just saying.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:35pm“The two men in the ad are “real-life dads Todd Koch and Cooper Smith,” and the two children are their kids, Claire and Mason, according to Gawker.”
So what are the last names of the 2 Children? Koch, Smith, one last name each or do they keep their real last names? What a screwed up way to be raised. : (
Report Post »Roberto G. Vasquez
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 6:30pmPervert America!
Report Post »charles116
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 10:17pmGay couples often adopt kids n one else wants.
Report Post »Older kids and the handicapped.
goldenapple
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:41am@The-Monk: Is your argument against gay couples raising kids REALLY about the confusion over whose last name would be taken? REALLY? How do you feel about a wife keeping her maiden last name? Their kids must also be really messed up too, right? Idiot
Report Post »Watermain
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:04pmGlad that there is nothing “must have” at JCP since I won’t be shopping there anymore.
Report Post »myvotecounts
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 5:03pmDitto
Report Post »Lori-4-USA
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 6:19pmDitto me too and I have a jcp card for 30 years! No more – enough!
Report Post »lasvegan
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 6:32pmJust cut my JCP card up after 40 years of shopping there. End of that for me.
Report Post »charles116
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 10:18pmY’all come back nowah!
Report Post »But change yer diapers first.
dixie63
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 8:22amI closed my JCP credit card account, and wrote to them to say I’ll never shop there again due to their pushing the homosexual agenda in my face.
Report Post »marcus_arealius
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:04pmSo let’s see, 2 males raising a little boy and girl. What rules will these 2 homos impose on the kids when they get old enough to have friends of the opposite sex? Oh no little Jimmy, you can’t be with Sally, no you have to find a Bobby or Freddy to play doctor with. Babies come from where you ask? From the baby farm of course, or is it the baby factory, well whatever.
Pennys ? I’d rather drive 100 miles to go someplace else to shop than if it were next door.
Report Post »Ruckus_Tom
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 5:59pm+ one hundred
Report Post »charles116
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 10:18pmThat makes absolutley no sense.
Report Post »don young
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:03pmDown with pennys.
Report Post »SoldierofGod1977
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 8:18pmI refuse to support any business that promotes homosexuality. The bible specifically calls it an abomination. I choose to spend my money at businesses that stay out of the culture wars. I als do not shop at **** Depot, Banana Republic, Old Navy and The Gap for the same reason! Boycottt any business that supports homosexuality.
Report Post »ops4freep
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:03pmI will not spend a dime in J C Penny’s so they can have fun losing the buisness and go Bankrupt.
Report Post »Bye Bye to them
Gonzo
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:02pmWell, isn’t that so sweet! I hope the all the gay daddies shop at J.C. Penney… because the straight daddies sure as hell won’t !
Report Post »beckwill
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 5:39pmGonzo – You make me chuckle and giggle with your comments.
Report Post »charles116
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 10:20pmActually no self-respecting gay guy would buy a thing at Penneys.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:01pmDoes the name Sodom and Gomorra ring a bell ?
Report Post »charles116
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 10:19pmNo it doesn’t.
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 3:59pmOy, thanks for the story!
Now we get to hear fat long haired Australians lecture us on morality some more!
POW/MIA – Get them Home
Report Post »okredstate
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:31pmIf I was a POW/MIA, I would just tell my captors to shoot me instead of coming home to you. YUK, you are one sick ………whatever you are.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 3:59pmLet’s see , Kraft , Bank America, now Penny’s…whose next in this Far Left dance with the devil of political correctness where everyone is ” beautiful,” there are no rules or standards and America slides into Third World status ….politically correctly, of course…
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:07pmHow do we really know they are real Daddies?
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:07pmYep, I will never buy anything from Penny’s either. You have to wonder, with the size of some of these “protected” groups, you just have to wonder if it is wise to suck up to a “protected” group while alienating a much larger “non-protected” majority. I guess JCP has a bunch of homosexuals running the show now.
Report Post »jcldwl
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:21pm“whose next in this Far Left dance with the devil of political correctness”
You should have put a question mark after devil and left off the “of political correctness” because in actuallity homosexuals are in a dance with the devil as well as those who promote and support it and I am sure most of them don’t even know it. It is just an attempt by satan to kill the seed as he has tried to do since the beginning. Don’t worry though because in the end, God wins.
Report Post »EP46
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 3:47pmI know one family ….mine…that will never shop JC Penny again…not in the store…not online. There is a very large store about 3 miles from my home….NO TO JC PENNY
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:06pmWe stopped shopping JCP when they only started showing black models in all the advertising as if white people have disappeared. May family will never shop JCP again. For several years JCP refused to show Christmas decorations and told workers not to say Merry Christmas. In 2011 due to the poor economy JCP had Christmas decorations and greeters wished shoppers a happy Christmas and Holiday. Hmmm, maybe this new policy and JCP are checking out like Grants, Woolworths and others. Bye JCP bye.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:09pmI have to agree with your boycott simply for the same reasons they would boycott your business if you said that you disagree with their lifestyle. Use their tactics against them.
Report Post »jhrusky
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:15pmCan’t shop at JCP because they show gay people Or because they show black people Or, because they have Latinos in their ads
You people make me sick!
Report Post »crazyrightwingmom
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:29pmChief George: You are skewing the facts. She said ALL black, which is just as bad as all white. Nothing about Latino. And Gay is a lifestyle that we are free to not promote…so suck it in!
Report Post »(by the way, my son is “gay” and I love “gays. He know I don’t love his lifestyle.)
crazyrightwingmom
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:32pmSorry George…I meant Husky!!
Report Post »crazyrightwingmom
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:36pmI promise, this is it! I can’t find my glasses, so I am making typo’s! The message should be to JHRusky, and should have said he knows. enough!
Report Post »jhrusky
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:37pm@ crazyrightwingmom
Your son is gay? I suspect you are of the ilk that refuse to admit someone could be born gay … that it is a learned trait? If so, and since sexual preference is most likely “learned” at a fairly early age, what is it you failed at so miserably to cause your son to be gay?
Report Post »jhrusky
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 9:59pm@ crazyrightwingmom
After rereading what I wrote, I apologize to you for that comment I made about your son. That was cold and uncaring and attacking and I should act better than that.
Report Post »Mandors
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 3:46pmThe death throes of a loser retail chain.
Report Post »hatchetjob
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 3:52pmYou got it. I stop in to use their restroom only, on my way to visit the adjacent shops.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:17pmThaey should go ahead and change their name to GayCPenney!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:34pmHtchet, you sure you want to use the restroom in a store that is openly begging for gay customers?
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:41pmWhat’s next? GayCPennis Rainbow colored slacks and shirts?
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:50pmMonk, boxer shorts with a fly in front and back.
Report Post »blanco5
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 3:46pmNever shopped there, never will.
Report Post »Mutiny
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 3:44pmWell the wife isnt going to JC Pennys anymore.
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 3:44pmI will never give JCPenney another crying dime!
Report Post »SLARTIBARTFAST
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:08pmAmen to that!
Report Post »TEIN
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 3:44pmPortrayal of the American new dysfunctional family..Daddy’s who is my mommy?? They may never know….boys playing house and pretending to be men…..
Report Post »hatchetjob
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 3:54pm“dysfunctional” is right. The photos look abnormal.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:15pmIn gay relationships one person is always the male type and one is always the female type. Its like the brain is telling their bodies this in an attempt to get ready for procreation….but nothing ever comes from it only heartache.
Report Post »Seagal45
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 3:43pmPut your money where your heart is, these people will not get another dime from me.
Report Post »Bro Geo Too
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 5:52pmAgreed, Seagal45, my wife and I will cancel our JCP credit card.
Anyone else out there up to the challenge?
Report Post »pavnvet
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 3:42pmDoes anyone really need another reason not to shop at JCP? You probably won’t have to see these ads much longer as JCP will be going bankrupt soon with their “square deal” marketing. I stopped shopping them years ago, but the front of their stores at the mall are a convenient place to park as no one is there.
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 3:45pmI have a question. HOW MANY GAY people are there in the USA? What’s the percentage? I thought it was about 7% …anyone know?
Report Post »crazyrightwingmom
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:05pmPatty: 3%. .5% of this is lesbian.
Report Post »jhrusky
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:56pm@ crazyrightwingmom
Where in tarnation do you get your information from? Some church you attend where the pastor tells you how all gay people are going to burn in the fires of hell?
There are no hard numbers on percentages of gays in America. In 1948, the claim was 10%. In 1993, it was 14%. In 2000, less than 1%, then 4-5%, then 6-16%. Today with latest polling, it’s around 25%.
Now, I have no idea what percentage is, but 10% seems like a fair estimate.
Report Post »Bob_R_OathKeeper
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 3:41pmJCPenny promoting pennies, LOL!
Report Post »Crazyotto
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 3:41pmMore proof positive that our Republic has turned into a silly spectacle. This country is full of self -absorbed dwaddling twits / morons. The gays really won’t be satisfied until they are the majority. It is human nature. When they do there won’t be much worth sticking around for. Gays often are the most intolerant bigots when it comes to non-gays.
Report Post »smasaoka
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 6:56pmBut wait!!!! Didn’t our prez just make an order to allow beastiality and sodomy in the military? Have we forgotten already; already that that behavior-yes two “that”’s is what Muslims are allowed to do?
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 3:39pmThis is just confusion for kids and penney’s is just advocating that same sex couples are normal.
Report Post »45Sentinel
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 10:48pmGreat maybe in the maternity section they can show two “Moms”. One with a baby and another with her late term abortion baby.
That way they can celebrate diversity and make baby killer “Mom” feel good about herself.
Report Post »lordamercy
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 3:39pmYet another excellent reason to avoid JC Penney!
Report Post »ROMANS 10-9
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 3:38pmPenny’s
….. My family is done there.
Report Post »hi
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 3:35pmOh no! Atheists can move innocent crosses but we can’t remove horrendous ads.
Report Post »Bruce P.
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 8:15pmThere is no comparison. None whatsoever. You are showing your complete and total ignorance about the atheism issue.
The crosses are on public land, therefore maintained by taxpayer money. The ads are put out by a PRIVATE company.
Report Post »saved4ever
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 3:34pmMr Penney must be rolling in his grave.
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