UPDATE (CP) – Over 20,000 people have backed an online petition asking The American Girl company to scrap an LGBT storyline tied to its 2021 Girl of the Year doll, urging the company to remain neutral in what they call a “culture war.”
One Million Moms, a Christian conservative organization that regularly launches campaigns against organizations that produce questionable content, launched an online campaign after Mattel named 10-year-old Kira Bailey from Michigan the “2021 Girl of the Year” in December.
The doll comes with an accompanying book Kira Down Under. In the book, Kira visits an animal sanctuary in Australia operated by her great aunts, who are in a same-sex marriage. The book details how the aunts got married after laws were changed in 2017 to allow for same-sex marriages.
The One Million Moms petition, backed by 20,665 signatories as of Sunday afternoon, calls the storyline “unacceptable.” “As Christians, we know that even though something is legalized doesn’t make it moral or right,” One Million Moms argues. “American Girl could have chosen another storyline or characters to write about and remained neutral in the culture war.
American Girl is attempting to desensitize our youth by featuring a storyline with two lesbian aunts.” The organization calls on parents to not let their daughters see the doll so they can avoid “a premature conversation that she is far too young to understand.” READ MORE
