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J.C. Penney fires CEO after plummeting sales following gay ad campaign

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April 11, 2013 ( Family Research Council ) - Plenty of companies have argued that natural marriage is " bad for business "--but they'll have a tough time persuading  J.C. Penney . After a series of radical decisions, the retailer is struggling to survive a 25 percent drop in sales. It started in 2011 when the company hired Ellen DeGeneres , a vocal proponent of same-sex "marriage" as its spokesperson. The choice drew fire from organizations like the American Family Association (AFA) because it was a departure from the store's longstanding values. When AFA's  One Million Moms  complained, J.C. Penney's new CEO, Ron Johnson , stubbornly dug in his heels. Then, on Mothers' Day , the company shocked customers with a blatant endorsement of homosexuality in an ad that featured two moms--followed by a  two-dads ad for Fathers' Day . Coupled with an overhaul of the stores' pricing system, the stock never recovered. Now, months

Group of moms boycott new pro-homosexual TV show

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A pro-family group is calling on citizens to boycott a new NBC television series focusing on a gay couple who obtain a surrogate to have a baby. One Million Moms, a group of mothers affiliated with American Family Association , says  The New Normal , which premieres Sept. 11th, is “attempting to desensitize America and our children.” The show features an unwed mother who offers to be a surrogate for a homosexual couple to make money for law school, a plan she postponed when she found out she was pregnant with her now 8-year-old daughter. In the trailer, the woman’s grandmother is portrayed as a racist, anti-gay, southern conservative Christian who implies that she would have aborted her daughter if she had realized she was pregnant soon enough. The  trailer  depicts the homosexual couple asking the woman if she has problem being a surrogate for two men. She responds saying, “A family is a family; love is love.” A  recent study  found that children raised by homose