Wednesday, December 10, 2008
IKEA’s “Ian and Steve”
The lifestyle one chooses is their personal choice.
I think businesses should stay out of it.
They can certainly promote their products, but they shouldn't promote any particular lifestyle...
I think businesses should stay out of it.
They can certainly promote their products, but they shouldn't promote any particular lifestyle...
At LifeSiteNews.com, Hilary White writes:
"The catalogue, says a pro-family Christian group, 'promotes the extreme ideology of homosexual activists.' Fronda, a Catholic magazine, is encouraging readers to write to the company to protest and reports that readers have already sent hundreds of e-mails and faxes to IKEA demanding an explanation and that the company alter the catalogue.
Nevertheless, the IKEA spokesman in Poland, Karolina Horoszczaková, said that homosexuals are part of modern society and the company will not change the ad. 'Homosexuality is one of the elements of life in modern society. Our company cannot ignore this.'
The ad tells customers, 'Family life is changing ... Welcome to the new era.'
Grzegorz Upper, Fronda editor in chief, said that IKEA is promoting a lifestyle “which is not worthy of public promotion.”
'This [ad campaign] is connected with the strategy of accustoming people to homosexual relationships and then of legalising such relationships. This is done to establish their image in society as equal and then to legalise them.'"
