The War On Gay Ice Cream
To honor marriage equality in Vermont, Ben and Jerry’s changed the name of “Chubby Hubby” to “Hubby Hubby” for the month of September. As Right Wing Watch notes, this is not sitting well with Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth about Homosexuality.
“Besides the health aspects, there’s also the fact that homosexual behavior is opposed by God, and that’s something that we should take seriously,” he contends. “All homosexual behavior is sinful, and regardless of what liberals say or what Ben & Jerry’s puts on a tub of ice cream, that remains the case.”
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“The left is really making a fool of itself when it comes to homosexuality. They talk about transparency, but they don’t want to tell anybody about the health risks of homosexual behavior,” he points out. “They claim to follow God and to be Christian, and yet they celebrate all the things that God opposes…abortion, homosexuality. This is just par for the course.”
Hey, if anybody is offended, shouldn’t it be lesbians? Where’s their flavor? I do have one for LaBarbera: Half Baked.
That is the gayest icecream i’ve ever seen.
But really, its just a marketing scam to get 5% of america to buy icecream. lets see if it works.
craig7120 Reply:
September 1st, 2009 at 10:39 pm
HHHHH,
of course comes the next question, what was the gay least ice cream you’ve seen. just curious
you’re a republican right?
average james Reply:
September 1st, 2009 at 10:50 pm
Gay least……..
LOL
craig7120 Reply:
September 1st, 2009 at 10:54 pm
dude Im taking ur cue from another post and just laughing at them.
what was it called again?
bachmanning?
CherylCarroll Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:04 pm
This ice cream is sexist. I agree with Alan, the lesbians are the only parties who should be offended here.
karthiks030977 Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:11 pm
No, by implication, neoconservatives are also offended…because anything that “promotes” gay stuff offends them…and when the lesbians get offended, they get “promoted” (dont ask me why,I dont know why a neoconservative mind works the way it does).
average james Reply:
September 1st, 2009 at 10:51 pm
“That is the gayest ice cream I’ve ever seen”
HHHHHAH dude that is funny.
Preston Albert Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 2:32 pm
I will buy it on the simple fact that I know it will piss off the right wing crazies :-)…
libpatriot Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 8:41 pm
As long as you get buyer’s satisfaction rather than buyer’s remorse, that’s what counts I guess, Preston.
EricG Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 5:27 pm
“But really, its just a marketing scam to get 5% of america to buy icecream. lets see if it works.”
You wish it was 5%. It’s more like 10%.
And if everyone who was a closeted-gay came out today the number would be closer to 15% or even 20% of Americans are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered.
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That’s a lot of people for the right wing to hate. They don’t mind it though, hate seems to flow freely from their perverted mouths.
CherylCarroll Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 10:58 pm
ROFLMAO
September 1st, 2009 at 7:42 pm
“the fact that homosexual behavior is opposed by God”
If this guys have such a close relationship with the main man upstairs, why don’t they ask him why he created homosexuals in the first place.
Furthermore, (S)He can do whatever (S)He wants: why doesnt he just remove the homo’s from the land?
Or is (S)He not perfect and omnipotent? Well, Ill ask Saint Augustine and get back to you guys as soon as I can.
EricG Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 5:25 pm
You nailed it, Alex.
If these people know so much exactly that these pieces of Satanic bigotry and hatred they hold so dear to their hearts are in fact the grace and glory of God vibrating through them then they need to do better than just repeat the Bible over and over.
I can refute all of what they say and it’s not surprising they quote the Old Testament, they don’t follow Jesus Christ so they would focus on that which doesn’t involve him.
If they have a “New New Covenant” to share with the world then they better do that before we all conclude they are domestic terrorists and round them up so they don’t go murder my friends believing they are “purging evil” from the land.
Long and the short of it is that anyone who harbors these kinds of beliefs is not only a bad person, they are a terrible human being.
September 1st, 2009 at 7:44 pm
Now I heard everything. I am not a big Ice Cream eater, but when I do, I will buy something I like. I like Butter peacan. Ok now I want a banana split. Nice going Alan.
September 1st, 2009 at 7:44 pm
On another note, why dont we buy this crazy LaBarbera guy some icecream so he can cool off?
Celticwitch Reply:
September 1st, 2009 at 7:53 pm
Does this guy LaBarbera know all about Homosexuals, does he say this is a choice, no it’s not. He should talk to a few and maybe he would get an total understanding about them.
September 1st, 2009 at 7:49 pm
I think Ben n’ Jerry covered the gay thing with any of their numerous fruity flavors.
September 1st, 2009 at 11:43 pm
“They claim to follow God and to be Christian, and yet they celebrate all the things that God opposes…”
Yeah, I’m gonna pray that God gives this guy “Peter LaBarbera,” which I’m thinking is kind of a gay name anyway, an obsession for gay-named ice cream and he gorges himself till he’s morbidly obese, and then a bunch of really faggy transvestites spot him on the street, and they give chase, and he practically has a heart attack trying to escape, and before the paramedics arrive the TVs dress him up like a girly girl complete with ribbons in his hair and 5-inch spike heels, and then Geraldo comes by and gets it all on tape.
Lib Patriot Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 2:44 am
Sort of a modern-day “Twilight Zone” episode for fundamentalists, eh Rock?
Rocky the Liberal Rottweiler Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Maybe a Rocky Horror Evangelical Picture Show, heh.
libpatriot Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 8:42 pm
:-)
September 2nd, 2009 at 2:09 am
Slow news day Alan?
average james Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 3:12 pm
A musically gay newsday Willio.
Get it right man.
September 2nd, 2009 at 7:56 am
Will I turn gay if I eat this?
Alan, I got a Ben & Jerry’s flavor for you…FLIPPED OUT! ;)
Daddio Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 8:45 am
Never ate Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. Don’t ever intend to. I want my money going to better causes.
placefield Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 9:03 am
It’s good ice cream, I just stay away from it to try and limit my ever expanding waistline.
average james Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:41 am
Place,
Yah, ice cream is kinda scary. If it’s in the fridge, it’s soon to be in my belly.
I am not fond of the resulting expanded waistline.
Ben&Jerry’s is good stuff, my only beef with them is that the containers are too small.
karthiks030977 Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:43 am
” I want my money going to better causes.”
Yes. That’s your right.
However, we all have our own view of what is a better cause. Your statement that you want your money going to a better cause as viewed by you has ZERO effect on what I view as a better cause. You’re trying hard to tell me what I ought to find better, and not doing good at it.
average james Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Freedom is a beautiful thing Willio.
You are not required to buy Ben&Jerry’s ice cream.
You are missing out on a good thing, in my opinion.
On the other hand, if you abstain from ice cream, eat healthy and excersize, then you’ll stay in good shape and feel better too.
I’d have to agree that that is a better cause, although I doubt that’s what you meant.
TDro319 Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 1:53 pm
“Never ate Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. Don’t ever intend to. I want my money going to better causes.”
Can’t have your money goin’ to support a liberal cause. I’d hang onto it if I were you, Daddio. Save it for the next unnecessary trillion dollar war-for-profit the republicans start. Now THERE’S a good conservative cause!
karthiks030977 Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 1:58 pm
TDRO:
He Doesnt need to pay for the next unnecessary trillion dollar war-for-profit because he will have you liberals paying for it,ROFLMAO.
September 2nd, 2009 at 8:26 am
FUDGE covered peanut butter filled preztels? OH NO THEY DIDANT.
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:13 am
I am still laughing at HHHHAH’s–
“That’s the gayest ice cream I’ve ever seen”
And Craig’s—-
“What’s the gay least ice cream you’ve ever seen?”
One of the funniest exchanges I’ve seen.
TDro319 Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 1:55 pm
“That’s the gayest ice cream I’ve ever seen”
But how can he tell the ice cream is gay? Is it interior decorating when he looks at it? Maybe designing women’s clothing?
Celticwitch Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Excuse me, is there a difference between gay ice cream and straight ice cream?
karthiks030977 Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 2:29 pm
Yeah, gay people eat gay icecream, and straight people eat straight icecream.
Celticwitch Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 2:33 pm
So does the container say Gay’s only and on another Straight’s only? or does Gays have tutti-frutti? I dun know…
average james Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 2:34 pm
And bisexuals eat both.
Lib Patriot Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Banana splits are bisexual, now that I think about it. AND polygamist.
Lib Patriot Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 2:37 pm
If they started mass-marketing ice cream made from goat’s milk, do you suppose that would make Kregg happy?
average james Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Neopolitan ?
Celticwitch Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 2:37 pm
AJ that is a good one, but gay and straight Ice Cream? Wow now I heard everything. Do Straights eat boring ice cream and the gays eat the exciting ice cream. Just a thought.
karthiks030977 Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 2:38 pm
Celtic,let me lay it out to you:
1.BEING Gay is sin.
2.By selling Icecream to Gay people,the sin gets shared by the seller(tainted money and all).
3.To identify the fruit of the tainted money, the icecream is identified as “Gay Icecream”.
Celticwitch Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 2:38 pm
Hey Lib, I craved Bananasplit when I was pregnant with my daughter.
average james Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Obviously then Celticwitch,
you are pro-polygamy.
he he he
Lib Patriot Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Hopefully, Celt, you weren’t craving pickle relish in place of syrup!
Celticwitch Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 2:52 pm
No strawberry and chocolate sauce, with alot of nuts and maraschino cherries.
Well lets put it this way, the next time I go to the supermarker, I will check out the ice cream freezer checking all the ice cream, now there is Yogurt Ice Cream? That could be a whole different ball game.
karthiks030977 Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 3:05 pm
“with alot of nuts and maraschino cherries”
here’s another difference between Gay and Straight Icecream Celtic:
you cant get Gay Icecream in the above flavor(because Nuts is a subset of Conservatives, and conservatives and gay dont mix).
Celticwitch Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Well there you have it, but I am more confused, what about Yogurt? Is this for the yuppies?
Lib Patriot Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 3:17 pm
LOL, Karthiks!
average james Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 3:17 pm
Exactly Celtic,
Frozen yogurt is for yuppies. I like that.
Goat’s milk ice cream is for Kregg, who argues pro-beastiality.
average james Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Any of these in a waffle cone means that you tend moderate, politically.
Lib Patriot came up with the Kregg-goats milk thing. Credit where credit is due, that was a good one dude.
karthiks030977 Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Yogurt is for black people primarily;
Who do you think they call it Yo-gurt?
Celticwitch Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 3:24 pm
AJ, when I was a young girl going to Dorney Park in Allentown, they made waffles and ice cream. That is really good. I never had that at Hershey Park, but alot of Chocolate covered everything.
karthiks030977 Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 3:24 pm
“Any of these in a waffle cone means that you tend moderate, politically”
:-) I love waffles.
Celticwitch Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 3:26 pm
Karth, you said it wrong YO-gurt and stand hand over chest like a gangsta
Celticwitch Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 3:31 pm
No waffles and ice cream sandwiches, you know the kind of waffles, Aunt Jamima, Eggo type? with a brick ice cream in between them. That is absolutely mmm good.
Celticwitch Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Thanks Karth, AJ and Lib, you all made me laugh, this was really fun. Gay ice cream, straight ice cream and frozen yogurt is for yuppies.
Kregg is for Beastiality? Wow!!!!
karthiks030977 Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 3:25 pm
He said he has a couple of Unicorns in his backyard. What do you think he does with them?
Celticwitch Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 3:29 pm
Ah man, real unicorns to my statues of unicorns, man I would love that! I love unicorns, he can send them to me, <:)
Lib Patriot Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 5:07 pm
To be fair to Kregg, what he has argued in the past is that if we nationally legalize gay marriage, there won’t be any logical reason to deny people the right to marry goats. That “we’re going down a slippery slope” argument.
Celticwitch Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Lib, he is a little behind, how many states have same sex marriages? Vermont had its same sex couple ceremony, so I guess we can marry goats?
libpatriot Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 9:35 pm
Celticwitch, yes, he IS a little behind, but he is NOT a big a**! Matter of fact, I like Kregg, even though he and I agree on little outside of the gun issue. I appreciate his wit, and his ability to (usually) remain calm in the heat of an argument. He keeps us on our toes!
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:38 am
The Big Gay Ice Cream Truck is comming to your neighborhood soon. Think rainbow sprinkles and soft serve cones.
Sarah Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 5:02 pm
Fudgcicle.
placefield Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 5:09 pm
Choco Taco
Sarah Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Bum– I mean, Bomb Pop.
Celticwitch Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 8:29 pm
does anyone remember cho chos? Malted milk ice cream on a stick? Oh they were a kids dream when the ice cream man came around,
placefield Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 5:08 pm
What about the ice cream truck from Nice Dreams?
Celticwitch Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 8:26 pm
Place was that Cheech and Chong and them smoking the huge marijuana joint. Cool, but I actually loved their stange performance than movies.
placefield Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Yes, it is a Cheech and Chong movie. Funny thing, I have seen the movie several times but for some reason can’t remember very much of it.
Celticwitch Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 9:18 pm
I heard some of their stage performance, I did love hearing them, one I had thought was funny. I was a young girl and I played it for my brother he laughed, sounds like my younger brother and my dad, the skit was called, “Earache my eye.” it was so funny we laughed so hard. I lost the 45 and I wish I could find it again. Maybe I will check You Tube.
libpatriot Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 9:19 pm
Placefield, one of the parts I keep remembering is seeing Pee Wee Herman with white powder on his nose.
Celticwitch Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 9:32 pm
I will look that up later, I was annoying my albatross, my husband. I would have earphones, but my daughter has them somewhere.
placefield Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 9:34 pm
I remember that part with Pee Wee. Seems to fit better then him doing childrens shows.
placefield Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 9:37 pm
Yes Cheech and Chong had some good stage shows, there movies were just kind of like a bad trip. They actualy just did a tour.
RDM Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 8:20 pm
We need some neighborhood music for The Big Gay Ice Cream Truck.
How bout’ Little Richard’s ” Tootie Fruity OH Rootie”.
libpatriot Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 8:38 pm
RDM, that’s as appropriate a choice as any!
libpatriot Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 9:38 pm
Especially considering it’s Little Richard we’re talking ’bout.
September 2nd, 2009 at 4:48 pm
I think Alan did the Gay Ice cream to see how mant people make comments and see who can come up with the best Ideas, RDM, rainbow srinkles on soft serve cones? Think about that one, but I loves sprinkles on the Bananasplits along with nuts and cherries.
Lib Patriot Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Nuts AND cherries? Ah-HAH! Further proof of what I said about banana splits, I see.
Celticwitch Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 5:38 pm
Yeah but it is sooooo gooood…
September 2nd, 2009 at 5:04 pm
LaBarbera – ““They claim to follow God and to be Christian, and yet they celebrate all the things that God opposes…abortion, homosexuality. This is just par for the course.””
So when did LaBarbera speak to God? When did he speak face to face with Jesus about this issue?
I’m curious.
Because he is another addition to the group of people who are excusing their un-Christian hatred for their brothers and sisters by using political and bigoted reasoning. Shame on him and all those who insist on lying about the reality of homosexuals for their own misguided self interest.
September 2nd, 2009 at 5:19 pm
I’ll put my 2 cents in and say I just sampled Cheddar cheese ice- cream, and it was good:)
Lib Patriot Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Ooo, Jazmine, that sounds doubly sinful! My cholesterol level is rising just thinking about it! You’re going to have to say TWICE the normal amount of Hail Marys after eating that, you know (but it was worth it, sounds like).
jazmine Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 7:02 pm
A quick artery blocker, would be the french poutine. If you down a few of these, you may as well have an ambulance on stand by.
:)
Celticwitch Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 6:46 pm
I love to try different flavors but I have the plan chocolate and vanilla, cheddar cheese I would like to try. Is it Ben and Jerry’s?
jazmine Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 7:00 pm
I can’t remember what make it was because, I didn’t buy any. It was offered as a tester in on of the shops I frequent.I will say it was delicious. If one thinks about it, ice-cream is dairy as is cheese. If you have a chance to sample some somewhere, give it a try. 10 thumbs up from me.
Another weird combo I’ve tried, that was fantastic is a combination of balsamic and port and then strawberries are macerated in this juicy liquid, yum!
Celticwitch Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 7:07 pm
Jaz, there is really no good Ice Cream shops anywhere anymore. Alot went by the wayside. Baskin and Robbins is with Dunkin Donuts and they don’t have all those flavors that they once had. I had what was called Party Cake, that was good, with pieces of cake in it. I had bubble gum with chips of bubble gum, but have that in a bowl, with a cone, well you bits of cone in your bubble gum. I had Death by Chocolate, that was wicked.
September 2nd, 2009 at 5:19 pm
Alan uses his comedian instincts honed from years of stand-up in many creative ways, and with topic posts like this he’s encouraged we bloggers to switch from being debaters to being comedy improv people, which I think he suspected might happen.
Other posts that Alan has done that have worked out this way that I’ve seen are his “new words” post ( alan.com/2009/07/09/here-are-some-new-words-for-us-to-use/ ) and his April Fool’s joke where he told us he decided after agonizing reflection that he was going to become a conservative ( alan.com/2009/04/01/ive-decided-to-become-a-conservative/ ). On the latter, baD mR. fRoSTy, Kregg, Drk H, and TDro319 especially shine in their tongue-in-cheek remarks (but be warned: it goes back to being a sharply serious debate about halfway through the comments section).
These posts are worth checking out for some laughs, if you have the time to type in the topic addresses and look at a few of the comments!
libpatriot Reply:
September 3rd, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Drk H and TDro319 with a flair for comedy? Absolutely! Checking out the above type-in link will make a believer out of you……
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:30 pm
I have a confession to make, after all this ice cream talk: I don’t eat ice cream! Nope, after my doctor told me my cholesterol count was 225, I cut out ice cream along with many other things and lowered the number to 177 w/i a year’s time w/o using any statin drugs whatsoever. And you know what? I found that eating frozen yogurt or sherbet is just as much fun as eating ice cream once you’re used to them. But hey, this was still a fun subject, for real.
As for Peter LaBarbera, this guy is looney-tunes. If he doesn’t like Ben & Jerry’s having a Hubby Hubby flavor, well then he shouldn’t buy it! I thought the conservatives believed that the free market should decide everything, after all. Ben & Jerry’s should perhaps consider having a “Wifey Wifey” flavor to commemorate lesbian marriages, but that’s up to them, I reckon. A few flavor ideas occured to me for the lesbian ice cream, but I’m afraid posting them will get me kicked off this site, so, um,….nevermind!
Celticwitch Reply:
September 3rd, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Yeah it I had a great time talking abouy gay and straight ice cream. So from now on Lib, you are a yuppy. :) I had both and they are pretty good.
libpatriot Reply:
September 3rd, 2009 at 3:33 pm
I’m a yuppy, CW? Guess I can live with that, since I now eat frozen yogurt. But, truth be told Celticwitch, what I REALLY am is a college-educated hillbilly originally from south Missouri. But hey, that puts me at least a few notches above Jethro Bodine and his 6th-grade education, doesn’t it? (At least I hope it does.)
:-)
September 3rd, 2009 at 1:57 pm