So, CBS rejects a pro-gay church ad a few years back and now a gay dating site with a comedy kiss. Yet, they are allowing Focus on the Family to broadcast an anti-abortion ad featuring football star Tim Tebow. Is this a double standard or did the dating ad deserve to be rejected? I’d love our reader’s thoughts on this matter.
Update: Gay-themed GoDaddy ad is also rejected by CBS…
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Purty lame, if you ask me.
Besides I don’t see how FotF is going to make their ad funny unless Alan Keyes is in it and says he’s a human abortion again.
Comment by Evan Hurst — January 29, 2010 @ 5:20 pm
I was going to say that if the ad sucked, it would be ok to reject, but it was pretty funny. If they’re going to turn it down, fuck them.
Comment by Rob — January 29, 2010 @ 5:40 pm
The point when a human life begins, when it is no longer expendable, is a serious question. The ad provides an opportunity for reflection, but to suggest all life is sacred from the moment of conception is ludicrous (then we should not kill houseflies for instance). It emphasizes why we need better sex education, easier availability of contraception, and to stop filling people with guilt and shame for having sex. There wouldn’t be nearly as many abortions if young people, especially women, knew the choices available to them.
The fun side of it, is that FotF get to waste $2.5million. Also, the opportunities for ridiculing the advert, and Mr Homeschool Tebow are endless, and we can make fun of them on YouTube. It will provide comedy fodder for Jon Stewart, Bill Maher and others.
This opens up opportunities to get serious discussions going in the press: With FotF in the news, this weekend is the perfect time to get on the phone to the editor, the TV and radio stations, offering comment about how Dobson’s organization is such a danger to society (a. promoting flawed abstinence only methods b. rejecting informed opinion about homosexuality and causing misery for gay people and their families c. ruining children’s life chances and minds by promoting creationism d. stupid belief that life is sacred from point of procreation …and so on). There are so many reasons why we would be better off without parasites like this.
As for the gay dating ad – sorry, it’s just too silly.
Comment by adrianT — January 29, 2010 @ 7:00 pm
Something about this ad and the website rings false to me.
I’ve never, ever heard of “ManCrunch” before, and the production quality of the commercial is dreadful, considering it was intended for a worldwide Super Bowl audience.
I believe someone is playing a trick on us. Someone else has done some research into this, and it doesn’t add up.
A poster on Joe.My.God had this to post:
Check out their phone number for media contacts:
416-440-7912
http://mancrunch.com/media
That number comes back on a google search to an asset planning firm in Ontario.
http://www.3-wheeler.com/contact_planners.asp
Comment by Christopher‚Ñ¢ — January 29, 2010 @ 11:22 pm