Buckling To Holiday Hate

By Baxter

When we cats learned that people were boycotting the Hallmark Channel, we thought, too late. Way ahead of you.

Why would anyone watch that sanitized, too-neat, and — worst of all — incredibly boring programming? We don't, and surely nobody else is.

Well, we stand corrected. It appears that 85 million people are tuning in to the channel's "Countdown to Christmas" movie marathon. Goodness gracious. That's a lot of potential boycotters.

So the uproar when Hallmark scrapped four commercials that showed two women kissing at the altar was a serious thing. After four days of boycott-inspired hashtags and corporate "agonizing," the channel reversed its decision.

This is good news, but also frustrating in its stupidity. The whole kerfuffle could have been avoided if Hallmark had not chosen to knee-jerk-react to a pissy petition from One Million Moms, a right-wing group that fights "filth" in entertainment. Yep, the ecstatic couple pictured above is the very essence of that, all right.

Actually, One Million Moms is a hate group, in our humble opinion. They openly campaign against all LGBT content, thinking that gay people will just go away if nobody sees them.

Therefore, even though we wouldn't be caught dead tuning in an insipid Hallmark Christmas movie or anything else on that channel, we applaud their decision to put the ads back on — and hope that from now on, they'll fill the airwaves with a boatload of feel-good gay films. That would make us PURR.