One eleven-year old girl whose activism drew attention to her parents, a married same-sex couple, wins the day over One Million Moms’ hate.
Two weeks ago One Million Moms launched a campaign attacking American Girl, an award-winning company that makes dolls and publishes a magazine for children. At the center of that attack was a family headed by a married same-sex couple, Rob and Reece Scheer, who are raising four foster care children, including their adopted daughter Amaya.
“One Million Moms is extremely disappointed that American Girl, owned by Mattel, is promoting sin in the November/December 2015 issue of its magazine,” the activist arm of the anti-gay hate group American Family Association wrote on Facebook. They pointed followers to “an article titled ‘Forever Family’ about adoption from foster care, which would have been wonderful if they had not decided to include a large picture of a girl with her two dads, Daddy and Dada, and three other adopted children.”
Citing scripture, One Million Moms – who actually number just over 80,000 on Facebook – attacked American Girl for “attempting to desensitize our youth by featuring a family with two dads.”
One Million Moms instructed its followers to contact American Girl and tell them that as long as they are “pushing the homosexual agenda to children, your family will no longer be able to support the company, its magazine, or purchase its products.”
Rob, Reece, Amaya, and her little brother all appeared on Fox’s “Good Day DC” this morning, where the parents explained that Amaya helps them with their charity that gives backpacks to foster care children. Why? Rob, himself a child of foster care, noticed that foster care kids move from one home to another, always carrying their belongings in a plastic trash bag.
Rob said when he hear about One Million Moms’ campaign against his family and American Girl, he was “shocked.”
“These were moms!,” Rob repeatedly exclaimed. “These were moms that were saying that my family was wrong, that the love that my husband and I are giving our four kids and what we’re doing was wrong.”
“I would expect moms not to say these type of things about our family.”
“But at the same time, these are a ‘million moms,’ they could really be helping the 364,000 kids in foster care,” Rob noted, expertly. “This is our family and it works for us. And you know what? We have four amazing kids that we adopted out of foster care. These are four kids that have fulfilled our life more than we ever thought.”
“So to the Million Moms, I say to them, ‘You know what? Go to your local foster care agency, those kids could really use your help and not worry about the Sheer family.'”
Amaya was asked what she would like to say to One Million Moms.
Her response was short and sweet: “This is none of your business.”
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Hat tip and video: David Ferguson/Raw Story
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