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A grocery store in Arkansas put a shield over a cover image of Elton John and his partner holding their new baby to "protect young...shoppers". Overreaction, or is it damaging to children to hear about two men raising a kid?
what are they doing in the picture that's damaging to young shoppers? I wonder if the covered up the half naked female celebs that grace the cover of every other magazine every other month
what are they doing in the picture that's damaging to young shoppers? I wonder if the covered up the half naked female celebs that grace the cover of every other magazine every other month
Oh okay well that explains it. Young kids don't need to see things like that. It might make them think it's okay for a baby to have two dads...that sounds like a TV show; my two dads.
We have received a number of comments regarding an incident in our Mountain Home store involving the current issue Us Weekly Magazine depicting Elton John, David Furnish and their newborn son.
I would like to explain how this happened. For many years we have provided each of our stores with shields which can be used at the manager’s discretion to cover the front of magazines when they receive complaints from our customers regarding either the photo on the cover of the magazine or the titles of articles contained within the magazine. Sometimes those photos might be sexually provocative or too revealing.
The magazine article titles might also be too suggestive for some customers. In this case our store manager received some complaints, and as has been our custom, placed the shield over the cover of the magazine. When we began receiving complaints at our corporate office, we reviewed the magazine in question, removed the shield and are selling the magazine in all our locations today without any shield. ‘
Our true intention is not to offend anyone in our stores and this incident happened at just one of our 65 locations, which when brought to our attention, we reversed.
Kim B. Eskew
President & COO
Harps Food Stores, Inc.
So you're essentially saying the store was wrong for having made that decision.
Which is the bigger intrusion on freedom?
1. A private enterprise choosing to exercise their freedom of choice by covering a magazine despite the fact they are still offering the magazine to interested customers.
2. Forcing a private enterprise to display something they deem problematic.
I'd go with number two as yet another example of political correctness run amok.
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