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It\u2019s Not \u2018One Million\u2019 \u2014 It\u2019s One Meddling Mom<\/b><\/p>\n

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For years the main joke about the American Family Association’s bombastically overstated\u00a0One Million Moms (OMM) has involved its name itself. For obvious reasons. When an organization gives itself a\u00a0grandiose name like that, the\u00a0comedy is built-in.<\/p>\n

But after a weekend where we watched a popular American brand, The Hallmark Channel, temporarily duped<\/a> into believing that the organization’s constant bark was really an effective bite, it is time to move past the jokes and state the obvious about this organization: it is basically One Meddling Mom with an agenda, and no company should be giving her\u00a0the credence she so desperately craves.<\/p>\n

Her name is Monica Cole. In the decade that I have been aware of One Million Moms, she is quite literally the only staff member I have ever heard anyone name. She is the one and only person who appears on their petitions, as well as the one and only person who speaks for them to the media. She is the<\/em> mom. Her. Solo. One person, supposedly representing one million.<\/p>\n

One Meddling Mom has issued so many calls<\/a> and condemnations over the years,\u00a0it’s become easy to tune them out. As GLAAD has arduously detailed, OMM has gone after everything from recent blockbuster Toy Story 4 <\/em>for including<\/a> a seconds-long clip of a\u00a0supposed lesbian<\/a> couple<\/a>\u00a0that quite literally no one but them noticed, to Chips Ahoy<\/a> for a Twitter ad featuring a Rupaul’s Drag Race<\/em> star. Basically if a company hires, recognizes, features,\u00a0or in any way supports an LGBTQ person, One Meddling Mom will issue a petition, claim to have millions of supporters behind her, and then start cranking the AFA machine in hopes of getting some sort of press for her campaign-of-the-week.\u00a0OMM even uses a conservative\u00a0PR firm, Hamilton Strategies<\/a>, to help spread this message to a wider public.<\/p>\n

Sadly, because nonsense will forever grab headlines, OMM is pretty capable when it comes to getting ink. It’s typically dismissive, if not outright derisive, press. Most often the anti-LGBTQ\u00a0campaign to which it is attached goes absolutely nowhere and the company under attack\u00a0continues right along serving its entire customer base rather than cutting out the share that AFA\/OMM believes to be anti-godly mistakes. Still,\u00a0Monica Cole and her minuscule operation that masquerades as “millions” does<\/em> get people talking.<\/p>\n

It’s easy to be fooled into thinking the organization is larger than it is. But let’s look at some evidence:<\/p>\n