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Billboard Depicts Virgin Mary Cradling Chicken Carcass
Local 6 ^
| December 3, 2003
Posted on 12/04/2003 12:11:58 AM PST by nickcarraway
Group Picks R.I. To Launch Vegetarianism Campaign
PROVIDENCE -- A billboard in Providence, R.I., is urging people to go vegetarian with the image of Virgin Mary cradling a chick carcass, according to a Local 6 News report.
The animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals launched the campaign in Rhode Island because it has the highest percentage of Catholics in the United States.
The billboard can be seen by motorists near exit 4 on Interstate 195 in East Providence and includes the phrase, "Go Vegetarian. It's an Immaculate Conception."
PETA said its message is designed to highlight that animals raised for food are mistreated and that vegetarianism combats the practice.
Someone apparently upset with the billboard this week spray painted "Shame!!" on it.
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Rhode Island
KEYWORDS: advertising; animalrights; antichristian; billboard; blasphemy; catholic; christianity; hatespeech; leftwingnuts; peta; religion; religiousintolerance; religousintolerance; vegetarian
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ping
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posted on
12/04/2003 12:14:02 AM PST
by
nickcarraway
(www.terrisfight.org)
To: nickcarraway
I love freedom of speech.
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posted on
12/04/2003 12:15:11 AM PST
by
Lunatic Fringe
(I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.)
To: nickcarraway; AAABEST; Ace2U; Alamo-Girl; Alas; alfons; amom; AndreaZingg; Anonymous2; ...
Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.
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posted on
12/04/2003 12:15:25 AM PST
by
farmfriend
( Isaiah 55:10,11)
To: Lunatic Fringe
What does this have to do with freedom of speech?
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posted on
12/04/2003 12:16:40 AM PST
by
nickcarraway
(www.terrisfight.org)
To: Lunatic Fringe
I love freedom of speech.Works for me.
I don't see this as offensive. Obviously not ment to be anti-Catholic seeing as how this area of Rhode Island has the highest percentage of Catholics in the United States.
Seems this ad is targeted at Catholics.
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posted on
12/04/2003 12:19:38 AM PST
by
PFKEY
To: farmfriend
Too funny. PETA is way creepy to me, like a cult.
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posted on
12/04/2003 12:19:39 AM PST
by
Pro-Bush
(Homeland Security + Tom Ridge = Open Borders --> Demand Change!)
To: Pro-Bush
Too funny. PETA is way creepy to me, like a cult. The cult of Gia.
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posted on
12/04/2003 12:20:43 AM PST
by
farmfriend
( Isaiah 55:10,11)
To: nickcarraway
Of course if they made a billboard of Allah carrying a dead chicken the "fatwas" couldn't be announced fast enough.
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posted on
12/04/2003 12:22:59 AM PST
by
Az Joe
To: PFKEY
Or let's see. Maybe we place a controversial ad, in an area where it will offend the most people, and garner the attention of the national press, so PETA gets the most free advertising? They've been working this scam for years, and the idiots/accomplices in the press just keep going right along with it. Look up the old PETA articles that are similar to this one. Everytime, there is a PETA spokesperson who makes a non-radical, public relations type statement in the middle of the story.
To: nickcarraway
The idiocy of PETA know no bounds. (((shaking head in disgust)))
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posted on
12/04/2003 12:25:51 AM PST
by
Capitalist Eric
(To be a liberal, one must be mentally deranged, or ignorant of reality.)
To: cincinnati65
You have an excellent point.
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posted on
12/04/2003 12:27:36 AM PST
by
PFKEY
To: nickcarraway
Vegetarianism causes Global Warming.
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posted on
12/04/2003 12:28:32 AM PST
by
T'wit
To: nickcarraway
Go VEGETARIAN! My Ass!I say, "Go to friggin' Colonel Sander's! and order a dang blasted 30 piece bucket of EXTRA crispy!"
With any luck, the Blessed Virgin will help me find that 25 percent off coupon!
Kentucky Fried ChickenTM is open late!
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posted on
12/04/2003 12:35:07 AM PST
by
Robert_Paulson2
(robert... the rino... LWMPTBHFTOSTA....)
To: cincinnati65
Bingo...
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posted on
12/04/2003 12:35:38 AM PST
by
Chad Fairbanks
(Friendship is like peeing your pants, everyone can see it, but only you can feel it's true warmth!)
To: T'wit
Excellent point...
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posted on
12/04/2003 12:36:09 AM PST
by
Chad Fairbanks
(Friendship is like peeing your pants, everyone can see it, but only you can feel it's true warmth!)
To: nickcarraway
Someone apparently upset with the billboard this week spray painted "Shame!!" on it. Excellent!!
To: Robert_Paulson2
Yummm, chicken!
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posted on
12/04/2003 1:08:17 AM PST
by
claudiustg
(Go Sharon! Go Israel!)
To: Robert_Paulson2
Made me so mad I went to the fridge and got me a few slices of good beef salami. I was thinking about a roma tomato but the sign sure changed my mind.
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posted on
12/04/2003 1:16:28 AM PST
by
DeepDish
(Depleted uranium and democrats are a lot alike. They've both been sucked dry of anything useful)
To: nickcarraway
Has anyone from PETA explained the significance of the cross-hairs on the O in GO?
Is it a rifle sight? Is it the Zodiac Killer's signature? Is it a pagan symbol? Is it a reflection of the Christian cross?
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posted on
12/04/2003 1:16:32 AM PST
by
weegee
(BTW, I see Gallagher's running for prez too http://gallaghersmash.com/html/presspresident.htm)
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