American Girl describes itself as a company that creates “inspiring products for each stage of a young girl’s development-from her preschool days of baby dolls and fantasy play through her tween years of self-expression and individuality”.
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A conservative group called One Million Moms is calling for a boycott of both companies.
The Christian group One Million Moms has urged readers to unsubscribe from the American Girl magazine and catalog as well as to stop shopping in the company’s stores, all in an effort to boycott what the organization has deemed to be the magazine’s plan to push a homosexual agenda to young kids reading the publication.
The story, entitled “Forever Family”, showcased Amaya Scheer, who was adopted, along with her three siblings, by a gay couple. In the story, Amaya discusses her father, Rob Sheer, and his charity, Comfort Cases, an organization dedicated to providing backpacks to foster children filled with life’s daily necessities – from pajamas and toothbrushes to stuffed animals and blankets.
The group has criticized American Girl for not focusing on the girl alone instead of the family and for not picking a different child so that it could remain neutral in the culture war.
Watch the Scheers defend the right for their family to be featured within the pages of American Girl in the video below from WTTG. ‘My parents feed us, love us, and give us everything kids in foster care dream of having someday’.
“These were moms!” Rob Scheer told WTTG on Monday. The article was written by an adult but is told through Amaya’s perspective, outlining how she and her brothers arrived at the Sheer family’s home as foster children with only a trash bag full of personal belongings.
“I don’t live in a plastic bubble”, he said. “I understand people out there are ugly”, he tells the Washington Post.
“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”. Amaya was adopted in 2009 by Rob and Reece Scheer, who later welcomed home three other foster kids, including Amaya’s brother. These are four kids that have fulfilled our life more than we ever thought.
‘I look at a [mother] and see someone who has given so much love to bring a child into this world, ‘ he said.
Amaya’s response to One Million Moms was much simpler: “This is none of your business”.
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One Million Moms does support adoption, just not adoption by gay people.
