Posted on 12/01/2004 3:25:19 PM PST by missyme
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - CBS has refused to run an ad by a liberal church promoting the acceptance of people regardless of sexual orientation because the network believes the ad is advocacy advertising.
The church also says the ad was banned on NBC.
The 30-second spot, run by the United Church of Christ, features two muscle-bound bouncers standing outside a church, selecting people who could attend service and those who could not. Among those kept out are two males who appear to be a couple. Written text then appears saying, in part, "Jesus didn't turn people away, neither do we."
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Paging ACLU...
Gosh I wish they would run this. ABC too. Then even more people will switch to talk radio/cable, since CBS news has such an old demographic.
The church says the ad has been accepted on a number of other networks, including ABC Family, BET Discovery, Fox, Hallmark, TBS and TNT.
TBS and TNT are owned by Time Warner (Research), which also owns CNN/Money.
CBS is part of Viacom (Research) while NBC belongs to General Electric (Research).
The Cleveland-based United Church of Christ claims 6,000 congregations with 1.3 million members.
Thanks!
"the network believes the ad is advocacy advertising."
Unlike 60 Minutes??
Does anyone know what the FCC rules are in this area?
Jesus also didn't say "Go, and sin some more."
The left is out trying to promote Jesus in a way to fit there agenda....Pretty sick.
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. I feared my family and friends might reject me for coming out. Most of them, though, are supportive. I explained to them that I was born this way. I am homophobic!
And it was genetic too...
We find it disturbing that the networks in question seem to have no problem exploiting gay persons through mindless comedies or titillating dramas, but when it comes to a church's loving welcome of committed gay couples, that's where they draw the line."
The commercial can be viewed at www.stillspeaking.com.
Thanks.
I watched the ad.... In my opinion the problem is not with the gay issue but that the ad seems to imply that many churches are racist and only they are welcoming to minorities.
I found it rather offensive.
Commercial is on this site
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I found it offensive also, since when does a church have bouncers???
Exactly. Maybe they should have the backbone to name the "churches" which they allege to be racist.
No network will air this rubbish, if they do I see a major backlash...
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