Pro-Family Activist Spurs Public Outcry Against Macy's 'Gay Pride' Display
by Mary Rettig
June 8, 2006
(AgapePress) - - A nationally known department store's Boston, Massachusetts, location has removed a homosexual pride display after a barrage of complaints from concerned citizens. Brian Camenker, president of the pro-family group Mass Resistance, happened on the disturbing exhibit in the window of a downtown Macy's store.
This week is "Gay Pride Week" in Boston, Camenker notes, and while the citywide celebration engendered some outlandish sights, he was unprepared for what he saw at Macy's that day. "In the picture window right next to the door," he says, "it had a huge display promoting Gay Pride Week with two mannequins, both of them men, standing right next to each other as if they were gay and, one of them, wearing a skirt."
In fact, the mannequin's skirt was a rainbow flag, the Massachusetts pro-family activist notes. "I'd never seen anything like this before," he says, "and then [there was] all of this advertising for the 'gay pride' events."
Camenker says his organization posted pictures of the offensive display on its website and gave people phone numbers to contact the Boston store. "The outpouring was so overwhelming that the manager of Macy's had to change her store phone number," he contends. And according to the Boston Herald newspaper, he adds, the phones in the local store could not even be used for several hours.
"We also called their national offices in New York," Camenker says, "and as a result, in a little over a day they removed the mannequins from the window." However, he laments, the job is not complete, since the Boston Macy's is still displaying a calendar of "Gay Pride Week" events in its store window.
The store claims it is supporting diversity, Camenker says. So, although a battle has been won, the community activist says there is still work to be done -- and he encourages pro-family citizens to keep calling Macy's and expressing their concern.
Mary Rettig, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
