UPDATE, October 26, 2011: Hitler's Parents Claim Judge Found No Abuse of Little Adolf, Aryan Nation
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UPDATE, August 6, 2010: New Jersey Couple Loses Custody of Son Named Adolf Hitler
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ShopRite refused.
Wal-Mart obliged, but some shoppers aren't happy about it.
Some people aren't so sweet on the icing policy that was in place at Wal-Mart after the bakery at a Lower Nazareth Township, Pa. store put the name Adolf Hitler on a birthday cake.
Adolf Hitler Campbell's parents went to the Lower Nazareth store hoping to get a specialized name cake for their three-year-old's birthday after being turned away at another area store.
The plight of little Adolf Hitler's parents trying to get their son a cake has made worldwide headlines and caused controversy.
Wal-Mart told NBC 10's Stacey Weaver that they are reviewing their cake decorating policies that up until now only censored profanity.
The company said that they realize that they may have offended some people by decorating the cake.
One shopper said he wouldn't have made the cake and that the store should have had better sense.
Others thought the store just simply honored the family's constitutional right.
"I hate it! I hate it, but how can you say they aren't allowed. If you are going to allow these freedoms that are in our constitution, sometimes it goes against what we believe," said shopper Denise Ackley from Easton.
Paul Lambert of Bangor, Pa had a more interesting analogy for the contraversery.
(Note: Philadelphia's NBC affiliate needs a better spell check. "CONTROVERSY.")
"If his parents named him Jesus Christ, I'm sure they would put Jesus Christ on the cake," Lambert said.
I think Wal-Mart did the right thing.
"Hitler" is the child's name.
I disagree with the notion that Lambert provides an interesting analogy.
It's ridiculous to compare Hitler, the instigator of World War II and exterminator of millions of innocent people, with Jesus Christ.
1 comment:
The funniest part for me is the fact that Walmart was the only one willing to decorate the cake. Nice to know that it will stoop to borderline hate speech just to make a quick buck. I heard somewhere that in previous years they were denied in other places because the parents wanted swastika on the cake, I wonder if Walmart complied in that instance?
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