[ambrose]

[AnnaZ]

Oh I so don't want to be this "artist".

[boris]

I don't care if it rains or freezes
Long as I got my plastic Jesus
Sittin' on the dashboard of my car
Comes in colors, pink and pleasant
Glows in the dark, it's iridescent
Take it with you when you travel far
Get yourself a sweet madonna
Dressed in rhinestone, settin' on a
Pedestal of Abalone Shells
Goin' 90, I ain't scary
Cause I got the Virgin Mary
Assuring me that I won't go to hell..

[AntiGuv]

If this was a Dress-Up Mohammed figure that shop would be a smoking cinder by dawn....

[claudiustg]

---However, in an e-mail response to Gerry, the company said it doesn't sell the dress-up Jesus to provoke or offend people, but it sells it to reflect a diversity of opinion among its customer base.---

I'm speechless.

[GeronL]

Hang in there baby??

Dress him up on the cross!!????

I wasn't upset until I saw he was on the cross!!

[OpusatFR]

I think we should complain about equal treatment.

Would mailing Urban Outfitters a nice letter demanding a ~dress-up Prophet Mohammad~ doll, and a ~dress-up Moses~, along with a dress-up Bhudda be appropriate? The copies of the letter can be sent to various mosques, temples, and Lamasaries for their information.

[johniegrad]

Apparently whoever made this crap thinks it would be funny to put the red cape and horns on the figure hanging on the cross. Who would buy this atrocity?

[hellinahandcart]

However, in an e-mail response to Gerry, the company said it doesn't sell the dress-up Jesus to provoke or offend people, but it sells it to reflect a diversity of opinion among its customer base.

Oh, okay. So it's just there to balance out all the devout and reverent religious items they sell.

What a relief. For an instant there, I was afraid they were only interested in showcasing that part of the diversity spectrum that includes frustrated, infantile, Jesus-hating cross-dressers.

[hellinahandcart]

Here's something you will NOT be buying your daughter.

[BikePacker]

They have a web-based version as well...

I wonder, what would be the reaction if we had a "Dress-Up Mohamed", complete with pig-skin suit, and childbride?

[Liz]

Urban Outfitters Discontinues Offensive T-Shirt


Philadelphia, PA, January 9, 2004 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today commended Urban Outfitters, Inc. for its decision to discontinue production of a t-shirt that perpetuates an ethnic stereotype of Jews.

The clothing item, part of a line of ethnic t-shirts, featured the language EVERYONE LOVES A JEWISH GIRL surrounded by dollar signs. The League wrote to Urban Outfitters, Inc. President Richard Hayne on January 6 to complain that the shirt reinforced a negative association between Jews and money and, as such, perpetuated an offensive stereotype.

Urban Outfitters, Inc. has reported that it chose to take this action because of both internal and external concerns and out of respect for the sensitivity of the Jewish community. It has also stated that future production of the shirt will not contain the dollar signs or any other graphic elements or embellishments.

The League expressed its gratitude and appreciation to Urban Outfitters, Inc. for this action showing sensitivity to its clients and to the Jewish community.


The League also offered its assistance to the company in the future and expressed that it hopes that this experience, combined with another recent controversy surrounding an Urban Outfitters product that reinforced stereotypes, has served to sensitize the company to the sensibilities of its customer base and all ethnic groups.

[Drago]

They have other items as well...(darn rebellious teens!)...
some links:
http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/shopping/search/searchresultsmain.jsp?fresh=1&searchType=advanced&iMainCat=0&iSubCat=0&attribute14=0&attribute15=0&attribute16=0&RS=1&keyword=Jesus
http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/jump.jsp?itemID=289&itemType=CATEGORY&path=1%2C2%2C6%2C336&KickerID=382&KICKER

http://www.normalbobsmith.com/design/

[WV Mountain Mama]

Aren't these the people that came out with Inner City Monopoly? That was funny. Relax people, I would like to think that the people that made this or buy this will not be annoying us with their presence in the after life. There is a silver lining here. The reason the game is here is because of The Passion and with the new resolve of Christians to not back down from their beliefs and morals, this game will bite these people.

[TC Rider]

I visited one their outlets in Georgetown a few months ago. Everything in the store is designed to outrage parents.

I cracked up a few weeks ago when there was an outrage over the 'Old People Vote' t-shirts.

I remember thinking at the time, they must have missed all the sacrilegious novelties.

One that caught my eye was the G-Force Jesus. A plastic statue of Christ hanging on by his fingernails to the cross as the acceleration of your Honda Civic pulls him away.

[Mudboy Slim]

This is waaaay outta line...MUD

[nmh]

Can we see the Muslim, Mohammad or whatever his name is in a dress up magnetic thing like this? Or would that be sac-religious?

[ELS]

"the company said it doesn't sell the dress-up Jesus to provoke or offend people, but it sells it to reflect a diversity of opinion among its customer base."

The anti-Christian beat goes on.