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One Million Moms To Nabisco: Honey Maid Ad Is ‘Attempt To Normalize Sin’ Of Gay Families

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One Million Moms is at it again. Usually the low-budget activist arm of the American Family Association wants to tell Americans what not to watch, but now they also want to tell Americans what not to eat.

The far-less-than one million moms today posted an attack on Nabisco over the cracker-maker’s beautiful new ad promoting “wholesome” families, via its Honey Maid graham cracker brand.

WATCH: Beautiful Honey Maid Graham Cracker ‘Wholesome’ Ad Includes A Same-Sex Family

USA Today explains this is a “brand new, multicolored, multisexual world of advertising,” and described the ad and the very real families in it:

In one 30-second Honey Maid ad, viewers will see everything from a same-sex couple bottle-feeding their son to an interracial couple and their three kids holding hands. The ad also features a Hispanic mother and an African-American father with their three mixed-race children. And there’s even a father covered in body tattoos. This is not some shockvertisement for Benetton. It’s an ad for one of America’s oldest and most familiar brands. The people in it are not actors, but real families. The message of the ad: These are wholesome families enjoying wholesome snacks.

Alas, the Christian group, which exists to annoy major corporations and to cull email addresses for its multi-million dollar parent — an anti-gay hate group — sees the ad a tad differently.

Claiming “One Million Moms stands up for Biblical truth which is very clear in Romans 1:26-27 about this particular type of sexual perversion,” they attack:

Nabisco should be ashamed of themselves for their latest Honey Maid and Teddy Graham cracker commercial where they attempt to normalize sin. Right away it shows two men with a baby, followed by other families, and ends with different families pictured including the one with two dads. This commercial not only promotes homosexuality, but then calls the scene in the advertisement wholesome. The ad states, “Everyday wholesome snacks for every wholesome family. This is wholesome.”

Honey Maid is also using the hashtag #thisiswholesome. There is concern about the way this ad is pushing the LGBT agenda, but an even greater concern is the way that they are changing the meaning of the word “wholesome.”

This is truly sad. If this is what Honey Maid thinks is wholesome, then my family will no longer purchase Honey Maid or Nabisco products.

That’s the text of the letter One Million Moms want you to send to Nabisco.

  1. Oh, and “Romans 1:26-27“?

26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Of course, who is Nabisco?

It’s one large arm of what used to be Kraft Foods — and is now part of MondelÄ“z International.

So, the far-less than one million moms are committing to boycotting:

100 Calorie Packs (Thinsations in Canada)
Arrowroot
Better Cheddars
Cameo
Captain Table
Chips Ahoy!
Chocolate Wafers
Dad’s Cookie (c. 1929 Canada)
Doo Dads
Honey Maid
Fudgee-O Cookies
Team Flakes
Trakinas
Triscuit
Wheat Squares
Bacon Dippers
In A Biskit
Lorna Doone
Orchard Crisps
Mallomars
Fig Newtons
Nutter Butter
Nilla
Oreo
Oreo Cakesters
Premium Saltines
Premium Plus
Ritz
Teddy Grahams
Toasted Chips
Toastettes
Wheat Thins
Rice Thins
SnackWells
Trakinas
Nabisco Classics
Club Social
Kraker Bran
Oro Saiwa
Frollini de Oro Saiwa
Sportz
Kool Stuf
Pecanz
Zu Zu Ginger Snaps

And if they’re purists — which all Bible thumpers are, right? — then they’ll also want to boycott all of MondelÄ“z International’s brands:

Arrowroot
Barnum’s Animals
Belvita
Better Cheddars
Cheese Nips
Cameo
Chips Ahoy!
Claussen
Club Social
Corn Nuts
Fig Newton
Filipinos
Fudgee-O
Ginger Snaps
Handi-Snacks
Honey Maid
In a Biskit
Lefèvre-Utile (LU)
Lorna Doone
Mallomars
Nilla
Nutter Butter
Oreo
Peek Freans
Premium Crackers
Rice Thins
Ritz Crackers
SnackWells
Sociables
Social Tea
Stoned Wheat Thins
Teddy Grahams
Triscuit Vegetable Thins
Wheatsworth Wheat Thins
Cadbury
Astros
Bassett’s
Boost
Bournville
Bournvita
Brunch Bar
Buttons
Caramilk
Carambar
Caramello Koala
Chappies
Cherry Ripe Chomp Clusters
Creme Egg Eclairs
Creme Egg Twisted
Crunchie Curly Wurly Dairy Milk (Caramel, Fruit & Nut)
Double Decker Dream Fingers
Flake
Freddo
Fry’s Chocolate Cream
Fry’s Turkish Delight
Fudge
Fuse
Green & Black’s Heroes
Jelly Babies
Kent
Kréma
Koko
La Pie qui Chante
Mantecol
Maynards
Milk Tray
Mini Eggs
Moro Mr. Big
Old Gold
Palitos de la selva
Pascall
Picnic
Poulain
Roses
Shots
Snack
Snowflake
Starbar
The Natural Confectionery Company
Time Out
Trebor
Twirl
Vichy
Pastilles
Wispa
Yowie
Cadbury
Adams
Bubbaloo
Bubblicious
Certs
Chiclets
Clorets
Dentyne
Dentyne Mints
Freshen Up Gum
Halls
Hollywood Chewing Gum
Malabar
Stimorol
Stride
Sour Patch Kids
Swedish Fish
Trident
Wunderbar
Alpen Gold
Baker’s Chocolate
Côte d’Or
Daim
Freia
Freia Melkesjokolade
Jet-Puffed
Kvikk
Lunsj
Lacta
Marabou
Milka
O’Boy
Poiana
Prince
Polo
Terry’s
Terry’s All Gold
Terry’s Chocolate Orange
Toblerone
Trakinas
Twist
Tang
Kenco
Jacobs
Tassimo

Everyone else, bon appétit!

Hat tip: Right Wing Watch

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The imagery is dark. The words are defiant. The message is dystopian. An ad for Republican Governor Ron DeSantis‘s presidential campaign, currently “in turmoil,” features the First Lady of Florida, Casey DeSantis, issuing a warning: “They’re coming after our children.”

The ad never quite says who is coming after the kids, but the video (below) includes clips of President Joe Biden and former Dr. Anthony Fauci, the face of the war on COVID and the now-retired Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

While it was first released over the summer, it received little attention. Casey DeSantis on Friday reposted her “Mamas for DeSantis” ad. It comes in the wake of the alleged ménage à trois sex scandal involving an unnamed woman who has accused Christian Ziegler, the head of the Florida Republican Party of rape. His wife, Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler, who reportedly confirmed the consensual three-way sexual relationship, is Casey DeSantis’ “best friend,” according to Florida Politics publisher Peter Schorsch.

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“We’ve been forced into silence,” she charges, amid a baby crying and a COVID mask being put over a child’s face. “Into compliance.”

“Told that we must ‘trust the science,'” DeSantis continues, in a direct attack on Dr. Fauci, showing him speaking during the height of COVID in the Trump administration.

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And in an attack on LGBTQ children and adults, she says: “We’ve been told that we must deny truth. Back down. And look the other way.”

“Enough is enough. When you come after our kids, we fight back. Because there’s nothing we won’t do to protect our children,” she says.

Seconds later, the video shows President Joe Biden declaring, “Our nation’s children are all our children.”

“We will not allow you to exploit their innocence to advance your agenda. We are no longer silent,” Casey DeSantis declares. “We are united. We have finally found our fighter.”

Casey DeSantis praises her husband, saying he will do for America what he did for Florida: “Schools: opened. Parents’ rights: defended. School choice: universal. Critical race theory: prohibited. DEI: stopped. Child mutilation: illegal. Girls’ sports: saved. Communities: protected. Our economy: growing. And freedom: guaranteed.”

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In the section where President Biden says, “Our nation’s children are all our children,” Casey DeSantis doesn’t explain that those words came from a White House celebration honoring Teachers of The Year from across the country. The President was praising an Oklahoma Teacher of the Year whose district includes students who speak 62 different languages, so she had to work hard to ensure everyone felt included. She had said, “There’s no such thing as someone else’s child.”

Nor did DeSantis acknowledge that Governor DeSantis’ performance for children has been poor.

The Florida Policy Institute, which says it is “an independent, non-partisan, and non-profit organization,” in September warned “368,728 youth aged 20 and younger” have been cut from Medicaid. “Because Florida has not expanded Medicaid, the vast majority of those losing insurance during this time have been children, parents, young adults, and new mothers.”

Florida ranks 35th in child well-being (with 1 being the best), according WUSF, citing the Kids Count Databook from the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

Some critics on social media blasted Casey DeSantis’ remarks.

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A Washington, D.C. federal appeals court Friday afternoon largely upheld and reinstated U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan’s very narrow and limited gag order on Donald Trump for his trial on charges related to his alleged efforts to subvert the U.S. Constitution and overturn the results of the 2020 election.

“We agree with the district court that some aspects of Mr. Trump’s public statements pose a significant and imminent threat to the fair and orderly adjudication of the ongoing criminal proceeding, warranting a speech-constraining protective order,” reads Judge Patricia Millett unanimous three-judge panel ruling, posted by Lawfare’s Anna Bower. “The district court’s order, however, sweeps in more protected speech than is necessary. For that reason, we affirm the district court’s order in part and vacate it in part.”

The judges upheld the gag order “to the extent it prohibits all parties and their counsel from making or directing others to make public statements about known or reasonably foreseeable witnesses concerning their potential participation in the investigation or in this criminal proceeding.”

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They also upheld the gag order “to the extent it prohibits all parties and their counsel from making or directing others to make public statements about (1) counsel in the case other than the Special Counsel, (2) members of the court’s staff and counsel’s staffs, or (3) the family members of any counsel or staff member—if those statements are made with the intent to materially interfere with, or to cause others to materially interfere with, counsel’s or staff’s work in this criminal case, or with the knowledge that such interference is highly likely to result.”

The judges removed from the gag order “speech beyond those specified categories.”

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Bower explains, “Chutkan’s order would have prohibited statements that refer to special counsel Jack Smith as a ‘thug’ or ‘deranged.’ But the appeals court order does not apply to speech about the special counsel himself.”

CBS News congressional correspondent Scott MacFarlane sums up the ruling: “Much of the gag order in Donald Trump’s 2020 election conspiracy criminal case in DC is *REINSTATED*.”

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Other news outlets this week have also stressed Republicans have come up empty-handed.

The right-leaning news outlet The Hill, reporting on the resolution Thursday, noted Republicans’ current investigation “has struggled to connect President Biden to the activities of his son, and they’ve failed to prove their most salacious allegation — and the one that would be most key for impeachment: that the president accepted a bribe.”

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One of the main pillars of Republicans’ allegations against President Biden, the “narrative that President Biden pushed Ukraine to fire its prosecutor to help his son, who served on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burimsa, has largely been refuted,” The Hill also reported.

“Republicans have engaged in wide-ranging inquiry into Mr. Biden for months,” The New York Times reported Tuesday, “hunting for evidence to back up their allegations that he corruptly profited from his family members’ overseas business dealings and accepted bribes. To date, they have failed to deliver compelling evidence to back up their boldest claims.”

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