Grocery Store Un-Censors Elton John's Baby Picture

Jan. 26, 2011 — -- A grocery store in Arkansas reversed its decision to put a "family shield" over the cover of the current issue of Us Weekly that showed a picture of Elton John and his partner David Furnish with their new baby Zachary.

"In this case our store manager received some complaints and, as has been our custom, placed the shield over the cover of the magazine," said Kim Eskew, president of Harps Food Stores, Inc., in a statement on the company's website. "When we began receiving complaints at our corporate office, we reviewed the magazine in question, removed the shield and are selling the magazine in all our locations today without any shield.

The shields -- typically placed over the covers of racy adult magazines -- were spotted by shopper Jennifer Huddleston while she was standing in the checkout line at a Harps market in rural Mountain Home, Ark.

Offended that someone presumably took offense at the photo because John is gay, Huddleston took to Twitter. She snapped a photo and tweeted, "This was taken at my local grocery store. I was shocked and horrified. Can you help bring attention to this?"

She addressed tweets to Anderson Cooper, Kathy Griffin, Ellen DeGeneres, The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), the ACLU and others. And the Internet did the rest.