A Harps supermarket in Mountain View, Arkansas has placed a “family shield” over the Us Weekly cover of Elton John with his partner David Furnish and their new baby, to protect innocent children.
Like so:
![eltondavid Arkansas Grocery Protects Children From Seeing Men With Baby [Dont Worry, They Fixed It]](http://cdn.truthwinsout.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/eltondavid.jpg "eltondavid")
BUT! Here is the thing! They put the shield up after a few wingnuts complained, but took it back down after normal people called them outraged. Victory! The following statement now appears on their website:
![harps Arkansas Grocery Protects Children From Seeing Men With Baby [Dont Worry, They Fixed It]](http://cdn.truthwinsout.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/harps.jpg "harps")
This is why it’s always worth it, when these things happen, to follow up and communicate with the people involved in the situation. There, you have the COO of Harps Food Stores agreeing with the good guys and saying, “Y’all are right. That was a stupid decision. Fixed now!”
Good for them.
I’ve never even seen a Family Shield (sounds like a new contraceptive device). What else do they use it for?…pictures of celebs in bikinis? The latest issue of Entertainment Weekly has a nice pic of the 2 guys from Glee on the cover and in enormous letters it says GAY TEENS ON TV. Wingnuts get the vapors once again.
A picture of two men with a child is offensive? And if the object of those shields is to protect the easily offended they might as well just build magazine racks that hide all but the title of every magazine since roughly 80% of the ones sold in the average grocery store feature vapid stars and star-wannabes thrusting their barely-covered ta tas and backsides into the cameras. Somebody think of the children!!!