The creme colors of the rainbow Oreo do not exist, but the controversy it whipped up was real. On June 25, Kraft Food posted the gay pride Oreo on the cookie's Facebook page, and garnered tens of thousands of comments (both positive and negative) from Oreo fans.
Tiffany Hsu of The Los Angeles Times wrote:
It’s not the stack of six crème patties that’s whipped up a frenzy at Oreo’s official Facebook page: It’s that together, they form a rainbow in celebration of gay pride.
The image of the multi-layered Kraft cookie appears above a date – June 25 – and the word “pride.” A caption declares “Proudly support love!” The cookie isn’t available for purchase.Of the profile’s nearly 27 million fans, more than 154,000 liked the Pride post. Not all the nearly 20,000 comments, however, were quite as supportive.
“Bye Bye OREO!,” wrote user Jeni Friedersdorf. “Why can’t companies stay neutral on such things?” A few quoted the Bible; several swore to boycott the snack.
In response came an outpouring of Oreo love. One user, Matthew Merix, wrote: “Homophobes = tacky. Kraft Foods = progressive. Cookies = AWESOME.” The debate quickly spilled onto the rest of Oreo’s Facebook profile and also onto Twitter.
But was it just a cynical marketing ploy? Be prepared for more "gayvertising," said Dan Zak of The Washington Post:
The rainbow-colored Oreo graphic unveiled for LGBT Pride month proves at least one thing: Gays are just as susceptible to clever marketing as straights. At long last! Equality under commercialization.
The graphic was posted Monday evening on Oreo’s Facebook page and drew more than 52,000 shares and 177,000 likes in 24 hours — a robust social-media response that amounts to free advertising for Oreo, which is made by Nabisco, which is a subsidiary of Kraft Foods, which, with annual revenues of $54.4 billion, is the planet’s second-larget food company and doesn’t really need your pro-bono assistance with brand expansion.
well for someone so educated, you are sure ignorant of what Christ has done for us on the cross, back to your studies"
JP, I love how you quoted just the second sentence, but failed to acknowledge EVERYTHING ELSE in the post. Maybe withagrainofsalt has a valid point and you're just too ignorant to admit it?
Also, learn grammar and punctuation. It would make the internet a much better place.
well for someone so educated, you are sure ignorant of what Christ has done for us on the cross, back to your studies
I have been Jesuit educated for 8 years now and have studied in private, Christian schools for the last 17 years, so I know a thing or two about religion...
Leviticus 18:13 states that a man who lieth with another man shall be put to death.
So if we want to take every word in the Bible as gold then I say every "true" Christian should go kill their local barber, and protest Gillette shaving products. For they are promoting actions God SPECIFICALLY FORBIDS us from doing, as Leviticus 19:27 says we cannot cut our hair or shave.
How is that any different from Kraft supporting gay pride (according to your argument)? Gillette and Kraft are both supporting actions that we are EXPLICITLY told not to do in Leviticus.
While we're at it, let's burn down any farm in America that grows corn and wheat, for Leviticus 19:19 specifically tells us not to grow a variety of crops in the same field.
God also tells us never to wear clothes made of two materials. Guess I need to ask for forgiveness every time I wear my polyester shirts.
And should I come over and kill you when you dream about ANYTHING that is against God? For as a "true" Christian you can't commit suicide but Deuteronomy 13:5 specifically says you must be put to death.
So take some of the Bible with a grain of salt. It was written a long time ago, and times have changed; most people are just too ignorant to accept change.
But praise God, homosexuality is NOT, in any way, shape, matter, or form the unpardonable sin! But it takes repentance -- that is, a willingness to give up that sinful lifestyle. It's not the easiest thing in the world to do, of course, and even after coming to Christ, such a person may still struggle with homosexual desires for a while -- but Jesus will eventually bring that person around to a heterosexual lifestyle if they have truly repented and placed their faith and trust in Him.
I for one would never wish an eternity in hell on my worst enemy, and as much as I disagree with the homosexual lifestyle and as much as they may hate my guts for my stance, I still love them and am burdened for them and want to see them see the grievous error of their ways before it's everlasting too late.
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
and for those who dont believe in God, no comments necessary.
To Seebs, I agree with everything you said. Her grandchild could pray in school if she wished. There's recess and I see no reason for not to do a quick prayer there. Or perhaps she could pray in the morning before school. The fact of the matter is that a public school cannot force the students to pray. Ever heard of separation of state and church, Kim? There does seem to be a fine line between them here in the states so I can understand why you would get confused.
And if there is a God, (I'm Agnostic I neither deny nor accept his existence), of course he loves you! I again agree with Seebs. God's love for ALL, including the LGBT community, does not get in the way of him loving you.
Photoshop!
As to rainbows... The rainbow wasn't just for Noah, you know. Noah was the one who saw it, but it was directed at all of humanity. And sometimes, God's promises mean more to the people that sometimes feel like no one down here is making them any promises, or keeping them.
And furthermore:
1. Your daughter can pray all she wants, she just can't do it in a way that forcibly involves other people.
2. If she's Christian, your daughter shouldn't be praying in public in the first place. Go read Matthew 6, and this time don't make excuses for how it doesn't apply to us. The instruction not to pray in public, but in private only, is not conditional in some way on whether you're sincere; it's an instruction not to do a thing which is *often* insincere, and which other people will likely take that way, and which might be a temptation to insincerity.
Calm down, stop worrying. God loves you, and God loving other people too is not a threat to this. God's love is not in short supply. We will not run out.
That is correct: I don't think you have to be afraid to be full of hatred.
There's no such thing as a homosexual lifestyle. You wish there were - that would help you justify your hatred - but the fact is that homosexuals live a variety of lifestyles very similar to how heterosexuals live. That makes it less easy to justify your hatred, and you have to rely more on the "it's sinful" angle, but what can you do? That's the only weapon you have left in your arsenal of misguided hatred.
Similarly, your disingenuous misrepresentation of the "phobia" suffix is pretty sleazy. When someone says that 3M has a spray that makes things hydrophobic, no one thinks they mean "afraid of water". No one's saying you're afraid; they're saying you're averse to, and you seem to be pretty clearly supporting that evaluation.
Say what you mean, don't use weasel words, don't play word games, and you'll find a lot fewer people call you names.
Stacking two of these puppies together for a 12x Stuff.