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PETA billboard with Virgin Mary coming down
abc6news ^
| December 4, 2003
Posted on 12/05/2003 6:03:23 AM PST by NYer
(East Providence-AP) -- A billboard sign urging people to go vegetarian that shows the Virgin Mary cradling a chicken carcass is coming down.
The animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PEE-Tah) paid three-thousand dollars to rent the billboard off Interstate 195 for a month. The sign was put up a week ago.
Some religious leaders have complained it's offensive and the sign has been defaced with spray paint.
The company that owns the billboard says the sign will be taken down over the next few days and P-E-T-A will get part if its payment back.
Robert Murray, co-owner of Massachusetts-based Murray Outdoor Communications, doesn't want the company in the middle of debate over the sign.
Murray says he sees no problem with the sign.
P-E-T-A spokesman Bruce Friedrich said the group is disappointed but plans to put it on billboards in other cities around the country.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Rhode Island
KEYWORDS: animalrights; billboard; busybodies; bvm; catholiclist; christianity; facist; lifestylenazis; marxist; peta; vegetarian; virginmary; wackos
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posted on
12/05/2003 6:03:23 AM PST
by
NYer
To: american colleen; sinkspur; Lady In Blue; Salvation; Polycarp; narses; SMEDLEYBUTLER; redhead; ...
P-E-T-A spokesman Bruce Friedrich said the group is disappointed but plans to put it on billboards in other cities around the country.
Heads up!!
Catholic Ping - let me know if you want on/off this list
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posted on
12/05/2003 6:05:40 AM PST
by
NYer
(Keep CHRIST in Christmas!)
To: NYer
I've noticed that anti-PETA ads are showing up on Fox News, showing what thug wannabe's PETA's members actually are. PETA is planning lawsuits against them, I'm sure.
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posted on
12/05/2003 6:07:53 AM PST
by
Pern
("It's good to know who hates you, and it's good to be hated by the right people." - Johnny Cash, RIP)
To: NYer
PETA's god IS a sacrificed chicken!
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posted on
12/05/2003 6:08:34 AM PST
by
jwalburg
(You're not moderate just because you know leftier leftists than yourself)
To: NYer
I believe Mary dined on a few chickens in her life....I would imagine Jesus did also. According to God, we have dominion over the beasts of the field.
"No matter how well bred an animal is, it can never tell you that it came from poor, but honest parents"
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posted on
12/05/2003 6:08:57 AM PST
by
Dallas59
To: NYer
They go about this in the wrong way. I don't understand why they don't see it. They take symbols important to people they want to "educate" and blaspheme them to make their point. Just makes me want to kick their arses and eat a lot of meat.
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posted on
12/05/2003 6:09:08 AM PST
by
Naspino
(I am in no way associated with the views expressed in your posts.)
To: Naspino
I know what you mean. The more I heard from the lifestyle Nazi's about how terrible SUV's were, the more I bought. I now have 5 - so there!
To: Naspino
The self-hate of surburban white leftists knows no bounds.
8
posted on
12/05/2003 6:14:49 AM PST
by
dagnabbit
(Stop Immigrating Islam. Don't let France happen to America.)
To: dagnabbit
suburban
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posted on
12/05/2003 6:17:44 AM PST
by
dagnabbit
(Stop Immigrating Islam. Don't let France happen to America.)
To: NYer
someone should go to Mr. Murray and have a long talk about religous persecution and how people like him need to spend some time in Boston and Concord remembering why he has free enterprise; it is because people of faith fought for the right. a little pressure on some of his other customers may not hurt either.
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posted on
12/05/2003 6:19:03 AM PST
by
q_an_a
To: NYer
MMMMMMMM.... Chicken!
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posted on
12/05/2003 6:22:24 AM PST
by
Johnny Gage
(Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter, since nobody listens)
To: Dallas59
Another consideration is that nowhere in the Bible do you find an expression of a principle, a story, or an observation from the viewpoint of an animal. In the very book from which we get Mary and Jesus, and all the Old Testament history and parables of law, the only reference to animals are as beasts of burden and food. I don't think there are even any references to pets.
PETA bring religious connotations to their campaign is simply laughable.
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posted on
12/05/2003 6:30:30 AM PST
by
William Terrell
(Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)
To: NYer
You can barbecue it,
Boil it, broil it,
Bake it, saute it.
They's, uh, chicken kabobs,
Chicken creole,
Chicken gumbo,
Pan fried, deep fried, stir fried.
There's pineapple chicken and lemon chicken,
Coconut chicken, pepper chicken, chicken soup, chicken stew, chicken salad,
Chicken in potatoes, chicken burger, chicken sandwich.
That--that's about it.
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posted on
12/05/2003 6:37:36 AM PST
by
Search4Truth
(When a man lies he murders some part of the world.)
To: Pern
PETA is planning lawsuits against them, I'm sure.I would love to see PETA sue--it would escalate the issue and keep it in the limelight that much longer.
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posted on
12/05/2003 6:39:04 AM PST
by
randog
(Everything works great 'til the current flows.)
To: NYer
Bruce Fried-rich in fat will be even more disappointed when the other signs are taken down or not even put up.
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posted on
12/05/2003 6:42:08 AM PST
by
looscnnn
("Live free or die; death is not the worst of evils" Gen. John Stark 1809)
To: NYer
They were lucky someone didn't set fire to the posts holding up the sign.
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posted on
12/05/2003 6:46:46 AM PST
by
shiva
To: William Terrell
Except for the talking donkey. If I remember correctly, wasnt it Baalams?(sp)
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posted on
12/05/2003 6:46:52 AM PST
by
tractorman
(9 out of 10 criminals oppose concealed carry laws)
To: NYer
To be replaced by a picture of the Virgin Mary
giving birth to a chicken.
=====================================
When Popeye's Chicken bought many KFC stores in L.A. they had a billboard campaign: Quoting:
"THE BEST BREASTS IN LOS ANGELES...WITHOUT PLASTIC SURGERY"
The billboards lasted 3 days. They went up on Friday and down on Monday because Gloria Allred and NOW threatened to sue.
--Boris
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posted on
12/05/2003 6:52:51 AM PST
by
boris
(The deadliest Weapon of Mass Destruction in History is a Leftist With a Word Processor)
To: boris
I wonder what possible grounds a suit could be brought? I may "chicken out" if I was actually threatened, but I would be tempted to just laugh at any such threat if I were Popeyes. They would get more publicity out of any such stupid suit from NOW.
Around here, chicken is sometimes known as yard bird.
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posted on
12/05/2003 6:59:34 AM PST
by
NorthGA
To: Search4Truth
STOP IT!!! Damn, you made me hungry.
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posted on
12/05/2003 7:02:01 AM PST
by
Alouette
(My son, the Learned Youngster of Zion)
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