Cons. Christian/Drudge protest BACKFIRES: Condom keychain sales boom!

[Bluebear]

BOSTON: A Connecticut abortion rights group has angered some conservative Christian groups by selling condom key chains that include an image of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel with God handing Adam a condom. "It's an example of depraved morals and contempt for the sensibility of Catholics everywhere," said CJ Doyle of the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts.

The $3 key chains sold by Planned Parenthood of Connecticut on its website come in 28 designs including an image of a US flag with the stars replaced with the words "Wear with Pride" and a Statue of Liberty holding a condom instead of a torch. Another reads "Condoms are cheaper than diapers" over a cartoon of a screaming baby.

Judy Tabar, Planned Parenthood of Connecticut's president and chief executive, said growing controversy over the key chains sparked a surge in Internet traffic to its website this week. She said 100,000 visitors swamped the site yesterday, causing it to shut down temporarily, after Internet columnist Matt Drudge posted a statement by a conservative Christian group condemning the key chains as "blasphemous."

The key chains had been on sale for a year, but had attracted controversy only this week. "The media attention led to an avalanche of orders so much so that it caused our website to shut down. We have expanded our capacity and it is up again today," she said.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3540625a12,00.html

[FreedomAngel82]

1. Kick ass

Anyone who ignores sex-ed is just plain stupid. Teens should be encouraged with both abstience and sex-ed. If you're going to have sex you should protect yourself from disease to pregnancy. I've even heard the argument that sex-ed encourages teens to have sex. Oh brother! I'm glad Catholics are for contreception and sex-ed.

[Bluebear]

2. Any Catholic who doesn't giggle at that graphic is a hopeless sourpuss! nt

[TaleWgnDg]

12. self-delete, duplicate

[TaleWgnDg]

13. And, here's Planned Parenthood of Ct's url . . .

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http://www.ppct.org/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=ppct&Category_Code=KEYC
(hey, some of these Planned Parenthood of Connecticut condoms packages are funny . . . really funny)


"Condoms are Cheaper than Diapers"


"I Want YOU!"


Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling fresco

.

[IndyOp]

20. This one is entirely too cute -

"Wear your rubbers"



:rofl:

[TaleWgnDg]

14. self-delete, duplicate

[f-bush]

3. Because they bitched about it.....

I'm buying one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Rainscents]

Hell yea... me too!!!!!!!!!!

This is great!!!

[AwakeAtLast]

23. Heh! I'll buy ten!

:evilgrin:

[WernhamHogg]

4. They just don't learn, do they?

These religious groups that are constantly complaining about insignificant stuff just don't learn. It's the same thing with The Book of Daniel and Brokeback Mountain, etc. If you tell people not to do something (like buy a keychain or watch a movie/tv show) it is going to draw attention to the item and MORE people are going to do the opposite of what you tell them.

Are they really this dense? Those keychains are cool, btw. I think I'm going to go buy one.

[Occulus]

8. They're some of the same ones keeping the drug war alive and well.

And yes, they really are that dense.

[FreedomAngel82]

9. Exactly

Let people make up their own minds! I thought we lived in a free country where people can make up their own minds. I also though that republicans were for SMALLER government eh? Oy! And yes good point about that. It's like when you're a kid around Christmas and your parents tell you not to look in this place or that place and it makes you even more curious. It's just apart of who we are as people I guess.

[Nutmegger]

5. Jay-sus, first I've heard about this

Yup, times like these make me proud to be a nutmegger. These fundamentalists want to control every aspect of our reproductive organs.

Drudge is such a jackass...

[WindRavenX]

6. BRILLIANT

and like they say, no publicity is bad publicity. :evilgrin:

Hilarious and great message :thumbsup:

[MADem]

7. What idiots these fundies are? They are likening a painting

by a gay guy that is on the ceiling in the heart of the HQ of the 'cultish' Catholic church to their Bible--Blasphemy????? What's blasphemous is the way those dipshits treat their fellow humans.

I haven't read a Bible in years, but I have to say I don't recall the Parable about the condom, do you? I do remember some stuff about feeding the hungry, ministering to the sick and the poor, and stuff like that...

[and-justice-for-all]

10. Rock on...

I will have to get my FAGGOT hands on one or 5 of those...Thats great.

[TaleWgnDg]

11. kick . . .

[xchrom]

15. k & r

[Maraya1969]

16. They don't own the copyright to Michelangelo's works. Some people

act so entitled. :crazy:

[The Backlash Cometh]

17. Let's hear it for expanding capacity!

Oh, dear.

[Cooley Hurd]

18. They're freaking out over artwork...

Michelangelo's painting is just that - A PAINTING. It's not God. It's not David. It's merely a mixture of oily hues.

Why don't these nutbags do something more constructive with their time - LIKE BUILD HOMELESS SHELTERS!

Christians, my shiny metal ass!:grr:

[Vanje]

19. Gottta get me one

Is it too early tto pick up a few for gifting next Christmas?

[Proud2BAmurkin]

21. Parodying a PAINTING is blasphemous? bwaaaaaaaaa

fuckin idiots

[greiner3]

22. Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel;

I don't know why fundies are pissed at this one. Michelangelo, by most accounts, was gay his whole adult life. :rofl: