Urban Outfitters Pulls "I Support Gay Marriage" T-Shirt

Here are some t-shirts you can buy at your local Urban Outfitters:

• Barack the House
• George Bush
• Che Guevara
• Things Go Better with Coke
• Reefer Madness
• Caution AIDS is Real: Spread Love Not AIDS
• Deep Throat: The Movie
• Jews Last Longer
• Free Tibet

Here's a shirt you can't buy at Urban Outfitters: I Support Same Sex Marriage.

Stores in California had actually carried that shirt at the beginning of the month, but they pulled it after only a week on the shelves.

According to New York magazine,

"Printed T-shirts are a staple item for Urban Outfitters, but in a rare move, the company yanked one from their California shelves last week. Tara Littman of Support Shirts designed the shirt in question, which features the statement "I Support Same Sex Marriage," clearly a hot-button item in the Proposition 8 state. Less than a week after it first arrived in stores and online, the shirt was gone. A buyer cited the reason as "too much bad press" to Littman, though the designer couldn't find more than one blog entry that dissed the shirt."

In the past, the founder of Urban Outfitters, Richard Hayne, has supported anti-gay candidates including the notorious Pennsylvania Senator, Rick Santorum.

Santorum as you may remember was famous for saying:

"If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual [gay] sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery."

Addtionally, there have been many reports that Hayne supported Prop 8, which passed last month, stripping California gays and lesbians of their right to marry.

Who knows if Hayne's support of such things is related to why the shirt got pulled. But considering the range of other shirts Urban Outfitters sells, I don't think making that assumption would be such a stretch!

What do you think? Will this affect your decision to shop at Urban Outfitters?

Image (c) Support Shirts