One Million Moms, a conservative advocacy group, launched a petition last week denouncing Target for selling LGBTQ-themed Christmas items, including “gay Santas” and “Pride nutcrackers.”
“Target has made a deliberate decision to display controversial products instead of wholesome ones at Christmas — a Christian holiday,” the group’s petition states. “This is a terrible plan on Target’s part, especially at this time of year, the season that should be the most profitable time of year for companies.”
According to Faithwire, the items featured in the retail giant’s Christmas lineup feature a 10-inch fabriché “Pride Santa” designed by Kurt Adler and an LGBT-themed nutcracker figurine on behalf of Target’s in-house brand Wondershop. Both items are decorated with rainbow paraphernalia, including the Pride flag.
“Let Target know that as a conservative parent and consumer, you are disgusted by their recent merchandising choices,” the group continued. “The corporation’s leaders have failed to get the message that when you go woke, you go broke. And yes, 1MM will remind them every time they choose “progressive” business decisions.
As of Tuesday, the petition amassed over 15,000 signatures.
Last month, as Christian Headlines previously reported, One Million Moms launched a petition calling for the boycott of the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving parade, which featured both transgender and nonbinary performers in its lineup.
In May, Target reportedly lost $9 billion after promoting a line of LGBT-themed products, including items for people identifying as transgender.
At the time, One Million Moms called the products “offensive” and “completely unnecessary.”
During a spring interview with CBN News, Ex-gay Hollywood set and fashion designer Becket Cook, a professing Christian, noted that American corporations and the entertainment industry are working together to normalize homosexuality.
“We’re inundated with TV shows, movies, media, social media,” he said at the time. “The 90s was the decade where it took off with ‘Will and Grace,’ with ‘Sex in the City’ that had gay characters in it. After decades of that happening and being inundated with that, it’s no wonder that the culture, it’s been completely normalized in the culture.”
Cook also pointed out that there is an “anti-Christian sentiment in the culture,” particularly in relation to transgenderism as part of the modern sexual revolution.
“So, one way to kind of get at Christians is to subvert God’s original design for male and female,” he said. “It’s almost like this revenge, ‘Let’s transgress as much as we can because we hate Christians so much. We hate God.’ It’s not so much as we hate Christians, ‘We hate God so much that we’re going to be as transgressive and subversive as we possibly can.’ The trans movement among kids is the most extreme version of that.”
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Milton Quintanilla is a freelance writer and content creator. He is a contributing writer for CrosswalkHeadlines and the host of the For Your Soul Podcast, a podcast devoted to sound doctrine and biblical truth. He holds a Masters of Divinity from Alliance Theological Seminary.
