'The New Normal' Fires Back at One Million Moms with Ridiculous Wingnut Ellen Barkin: VIDEO

Many of you will recall the mission launched over the summer by One Million Moms to boycott NBC's The New Normal for "subjecting families to the decay of morals and values" for portraying a gay couple having a child through a surrogate.

In last night's episode, Ellen Barkin, who plays a wingnut mother in the show, schooled a group of future One Million Moms on marriage:

"Marriage is a sacred vow taken between a heterosexual man and a woman preferably over the age of 18 to stay together until death do us part. And you know why? So you can have somebody to find your body when you die. You don't want to be that weird smell coming out of an apartment of cats do you?"

Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

'One Million Moms' Boycotts J Lo-Produced Gay-Themed TV Show That Might Someday Exist

American Family Association subgroup One Million Moms is going nuts over a television show that doesn't exist yet:

EW announced in August that the cable network had greenlit The Fosters, an hourlong drama executive produced by Jennifer Lopez and created by Bradley Bredeweg and Queer as Folk‘s Peter Paige. The show will focus on a multi-ethnic family headed by a lesbian couple.

One Million Moms has called the program “anti-family,” posting a call to arms on its website: A premiere date has not been set, but One Million Moms wanted to sound the alarm about this new series. It will be airing on the network soon unless we do something about it. They are in the beginning stages.

Shrieks OMM (director Monica Cole, pictured):

Obviously, ABC has lost their minds. They haven't let up so neither will we. ABC's Family Channel has several anti-family programs, and they are planning on adding to that growing list. ABC Family has approved a series pilot from Jennifer Lopez's production company, Nuyorican, about a lesbian couple and their diverse family. Many families have already discovered that ABC Family Channel is anything but family-friendly. But because of family being part of the network's name, we thought a warning should still be sent out for anyone who continues to watch the channel. A premiere date has not been set, but One Million Moms wanted to sound the alarm about this new series. It will be airing on the network soon unless we do something about it. They are in the beginning stages.

ABC Family reported the comedy-drama pilot, working with the title "The Fosters," is about two women raising a "21st century," multi-ethnic mix of foster and biological kids. While foster care and adoption is a wonderful thing and the Bible does teach us to help orphans, this program is attempting to redefine marriage and family by having two moms raise these children together. One Million Moms is not sure how the explanation will be given on how the biological children were conceived. None of this material is acceptable content for a family show.

Hollywood is continuing to push an agenda that homosexuality is acceptable when scripture states clearly it is a sin. As Christians, the Bible also says that we must speak up against sin. If we remain silent then we are guilty of sin also.

Lopez will be an executive producer for the hour-long project. Casting has not been announced. It's still in the pilot stage and hasn't been picked up for a series yet. Let's stop this dead in it its tracks.

(h/t Good As You)

One Million Moms Gripe Ineffectually At Their Televisions

First it was JC Penney, and then Toys'R'Us, and then Green Lantern, The Gap, Kraft, Marvel Comics, and D.C. Comics -- the anti-gay organization One Million Moms has ineffectually boycotted, or threatened to ineffectually boycott, more things than any ineffectual boycotters in recent memory. And they're back at it! Their current target: NBC's new sitcom, The New Normal.

From OMM's website:

To sum it up, this show is about a homosexual couple who hires a surrogate to have their baby. The season premiere is scheduled for Tuesday, September 11 at 9:30/8:30 p.m. Central. It is no surprise that openly gay Ryan Murphy, is one of the executive producers and director, who also brought us "American Horror Story," "GLEE," and "Nip/Tuck."

NBC is using public airwaves to continue to subject families to the decay of morals and values, and the sanctity of marriage in attempting to redefine marriage. These things are harmful to our society, and this program is damaging to our culture.

Note the sneering reference to "openly gay Ryan Murphy," which is supposed to mean -- what? That gays shouldn't have jobs? Or that gays shouldn't be power players in the entertainment industry? 

It is the case that consumers of all kinds of art, sitcoms to operas, are frequently exposed to sympathetic portrayals of characters they find unsavory, because the point of most art isn't to model some viewer's idea of utopia. Adults deal with it. And so do One Million Moms, most of the time. They're Christian, but they don't gripe about the atheists on The Big Bang Theory. They're probably very nice, non-violent, law-abiding citizens, but they don't gripe about the Soprano family. They only gripe about highly visible gays. Pretty weird. 

Gay Dad From JCPenney Ad Opens Up About Life, Fatherhood, And Backlash

In May, JCPenney launched its Fathers' Day advertising campaign, part of which was based around ads featuring the above image of a gay couple and their button-cute kids. The anti-gay right freaked out, as its wont to do, and JCPenney didn't flinch. The freakage, the retail giant's coolness in the face of freakage, and the publicity generated thereby probably added up to a lot of free advertising. Good deal!

Turns out, the gay couple is a real gay couple -- Cooper Smith and Todd Koch -- and those kids are really their kids. They all live near Dallas.

Smith has posted a brief essay at HuffPo describing the experience of having his family's image flashed all over the national media:

While we had no hesitation in doing the ad itself, we initially girded ourselves for a negative backlash against our family personally. To our surprise, the response has been overwhelmingly positive -- shockingly positive, in fact! We've received hundreds of emails, Facebook posts, Twitter comments, and cards in the mail from everyone from long-lost friends and classmates to complete strangers in remote parts of the United States and beyond, each filled with heartfelt sentiments of support and acceptance. We've even heard from celebrities and other public figures. Sure, there have been some pretty hateful comments and notes, too, but they're nothing we haven't heard our whole lives ...

Some of the best sentiments come from straight mothers and fathers who don't understand what all the fuss is about, accompanied with vows to drop by JCPenney just to spite anti-gay groups like One Million Moms ...

Smith is from the Rio Grande Valley, and for Fathers' Day chatted with the Valley's Monitor  about life, business, and growing up gay in the area:

I wasn’t out to myself or anyone else when I still lived in the Valley. People made assumptions that I was, and fortunately it wasn’t too bad. I was fairly popular in school, had good grades and held numerous leadership positions in band, student council and other groups. It was actually harder being very tall, very thin and very white! When I was teased about being gay, though, it was very painful. One time in ninth-grade biology, all of the kids passed around a picture of me and wrote horrible things about me on it. Then at the end of class, someone handed it to me. I was devastated. I left school and just cried in my car in the parking lot. I didn’t come out to myself until my sophomore year at Southern Methodist University. Over the following years, I slowly came out to family and friends as the situation warranted. Most were completely unsurprised and nearly all have been very supportive.

Meet JC Penney's Gay Dads: VIDEO

Cooper Smith and Todd Koch, the gay dads in the JC Penney ad, have been appearing on local Dallas stations to talk about the stink One Million Moms raised about their ad.

NBC5 spoke with the couple. Said Smith:

"That photo is actually a true second of our lives, just playing and having fun with our kids and the affection and love that we have for them. We knew that there would be some opposition, but it's nothing that we haven't heard from people our whole lives. It's just part of growing up gay."

They also appeared on WFAA's morning show.

Watch both appearances, AFTER THE JUMP...

PS - JC Penney's not doing well, but it's not because of any LGBT-related advertising.