Last week, Urban Outfters had pulled "I Support Same-Sex Marriage" t-shirts off s shelv (both onle and California stor) further fuelg the mors that the trendy young adult clothier is anti-gay. After all Richard Hayne, the founr and CEO of Urban Outfters, is a right-wg Republin known for supportg senators who oppose gay marriage. But rponse to the mors, an Urban Outfters spokman told New York Magaze on Wednday that the shirts were...
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URBAN OUTFTERS ON GAY MARRIAGE T-SHIRT: WE PULLED IT BEE IT WASN'T SELLG
Urban Outfters CEO Richard Hayne donated money to Rick Santom and oppos gay marriage and abortn? * urban outfitters gay controversy *
The sign, the ADL claimed, was 'eerily remiscent' of the clothg Nazis forced gay prisoners to wear ncentratn mps. Pullg gay marriage T-shirtsIn late 2008, the heat of California's vote on gay-marriage-killg Proposn 8, Urban Outfters started sellg a T-shirt emblazoned wh the phrase "I Support Same-Sex Marriage" — then pulled om shelv and the web ls than a week later, wh a buyer blamg "too much bad prs. Sce that's hardly a blip on the Urban Outfters ntroversy meter, and "Hayne is a notably right-wg Republin who supports senators who vote for legislatn agast gay marriage, " said Sharon Clott New York, we're gusg this was a top-down cisn.