The 1,000 Members of "One Million Moms" and Their Toothless Attempt to Spite/Bite Oreo Cookies

Opinions
- TheWashington Post

"The Latest Sheer Idiocy from Conservative Homophobes: Boycotting Oreos"

Opinion by Colbert I. King
October 23 at 3:41 PM ET

"Credit the group One Million Moms with spurring me to brave covid-19-struck Washington, D.C., and make a beeline to the grocery store to purchase some Oreo cookies.
I could do no less in light of a scurrilous campaign the organization has launched against Oreo and its parent company, Mondelez International.

Not to be confused with the Million Mom March gun-safety organization, OneMillionMoms.com is an online ministry of the American Family Association, a self-described “conservative, pro-family” organization based in Tupelo, Miss.

One Million Moms is out of sorts because Oreo has joined with the nonprofit PFLAG — an organization of supportive parents, families and allies of LGBTQ people — to release “Rainbow Oreos.” These are described as cookies filled with Oreo cream in the colors of the Pride flag, and the company has launched the new product with a moving ad depicting a daughter and her partner introducing their relationship to her parents.

Here is the One Million Moms description of that ad: “The commercial focuses on the mother approving of her daughter’s girlfriend, but the father is hesitant and has reservations. He later has a change of heart and even displays his acceptance of her lifestyle by painting his picket fence in rainbow colors to further show his approval. The advertisement ends with: ‘A loving world starts with a loving home.’ Followed by: ‘Show you’re a proud parent #PROUDPARENT.’ ”
Lovely, isn’t it? Well, not to One Million Moms. The group is downright apoplectic."

Pandemic? Nah. Preservation of democracy? Nope. Widespread low morale among Americans? Who cares? These mothers are outraged by a cookie commercial!