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A while ago I shared the story of Amaya, and her two dads, who featured in a recent issue of American Girl magazine. Amaya was featured in the magazine because she wanted to share her story of being fostered by, and then legally adopted by, Rob and Reece Scheer, and how she was inspired to do charity work in support of other foster kids because she felt so lucky to have a family.

Well, those wacky One Million Moms Seventy-Four-Thousand Moms called for a boycott of American Girl Doll — and its parent company, Mattel — and their magazine because of The Gay. And, well, those One Million Moms Seventy-Four-Thousand Moms and their boycott worked …

Due to the rampant homophobia of those “moms” Amaya’s story went viral. She and her family, and by association, American Doll, were everywhere, being talked about and interviewed and featured in all kinds of other news sources online and in print; even Ellen was talking Amaya and the boycott that never was ….

You see, Comfort Cases, the charity Amaya and her dads, as well as her other three adopted siblings, founded, is ending 2015 on an up note:

• Comfort Cases held its annual Holiday Packing Party on November 21, assembling 500 more cases than the previous year, a 70% increase.

• The total number of cases collected and distributed in 2015 topped 10,000 — 4,000 more than 2014, and an increase of 65%.

• With contributions coming in from all over the world, monetary donations to Comfort Cases will triple what they were in 2014. That’s up 300%!

So, it looks like those boycotts that the One Million Moms Seventy-Four-Thousand Moms are so fond of starting actually work … just not in the way those bigots intended.

story and photos via Designer Daddy

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An Eleven-Year-Old Schools One Million Moms Seventy-Four Thousand Moms

So, One Million Moms — actually, it’s more Seventy-Four-Thousand Moms — recently launched another one of their boycott campaigns against American Girl, a company that makes dolls and publishes a magazine for children—because an ad by the company featured … :::gasp::: … a married same-sex couple, Rob and Reece Scheer, who are raising four foster care children, including adopted daughter Amaya:

"One Million Moms Seventy-Four-Thousand Moms is extremely disappointed that American Girl, owned by Mattel, is promoting sin in the November/December 2015 issue of its magazine."

The sin is that a legally married same-sex couple is raising children, and so this rag-tag band of, probably not mothers but, bored Christian Loons pointed their followers to an article titled 'Forever Family' about adoption from foster care; and that’s a bad thing because the4 article included a large picture of a girl with her two dads, and their three other adopted children.

One Million Moms Seventy-Four-Thousand Moms then asked their followers to contact American Girl and tell them that as long as they are "pushing the homosexual agenda to children, your family will no longer be able to support the company, its magazine, or purchase its products."

Boo hoo. I could go on about hate, or about the need for people to adopt or foster children, and the way some of the Christian right chooses to ignore, and sometimes punish, those children, but, you know, sometimes there are others who say what I want to say, and say it better.

Amaya and her two dads, Rob and Reece, appeared on Fox’s ‘Good Day DC’ this week and Rob said that when he heard about the One Million Moms' Seventy-Four-Thousand Moms’ campaign against his family and American Girl, he was "shocked."

"These were moms! These were moms that were saying that my family was wrong, that the love that my husband and I are giving our four kids and what we’re doing was wrong. I would expect moms not to say these types of things about our family." — Rob Scheer

Rob then noted that, rather than urge boycotts against doll companies, and soup companies and cereal companies maybe these “moms” try and help the “364,000 kids in foster care."

And then Amaya, my new hero and idol, was asked what she had say to One Million Moms Seventy-Four-Thousand Moms and she said it better than her dad, and better than I ever could:

"This is none of your business."

Snap.

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