Ad featuring popular LDS actor pulled for being 'homophobic' (Snickers)

abc4.com ^ | 07/25/08 | Kirby Heyborne (adrag.com)

[TornadoAlley3]

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - Candy giant Mars pulled a U.K. Snickers advertisement after it was criticized for being homophobic, according to a gay-rights group.

The ad features LDS actor Kirby Heyborne, who has appeared in several LDS-themed movies, including Singles Ward, The RM, The Best Two Years, and others.

In the commercial, Heyborne is seen as effeminate man who is speed walking as Mr. T approaches him in a truck while firing Snickers candy bars at him from a gun. Mr. T then berates the speed walker, calling him "a disgrace to the man race." The commercial ends with Mr. T telling the audience to "Get some nuts."

The candy maker has come under fire before by gay rights groups, most recently over a Snickers ad that played during the 2007 Super Bowl in which two men expressed disgust after accidentally kissing.

Heyborne also recently shocked his LDS fans when he appeared in a Miller Beer commercial.

----Information from: AdAge.com

[who knows what evil?]

Where did the ad say that the speed walker was gay? Thin skin, people...funny as hell, though.

[longtermmemmory]

I actually know more than a few people.

Of course they TRIED to “man up” with the fictional characters on a road trip ad series but the swishy mayflower pilgrim killed that.

seems at mars candy the ad department is chock-full-of-nuts.

[who knows what evil?]

Need an ad with Mr T doing/saying that to Republicans.

AMEN!

[firewalk]

very funny stuff...

[dead]

this article is out of salt lake city and when you google this guy, a ton of mormon stuff comes up. so i think it is latter day saints.

Oh, the author cares that the speed-walker actor is a Mormon for some reason. Odd.

The ad itself has absolutely nothing to do with Mormons, unless Mormons are normally stereotyped as effete speedwalkers. I could see Mitt speed walking, actually.

[ZX12R]

Rrrrrrrrrrr...matey. Getting me some nuts to man up me timbers.

[longtermmemmory]

This is jsut BEGGING FOR A PARODY FROM THE REPUBLICAN BASE TO THE GOP LEADERS.

except what would Mr.-T shoot? little constitution copies? gold coins?

[thefactor]

evidently this guy is HUGE in the mormon community. seriously. he has been in a ton of their movies and is trying to go mainstream so he can support his family. so anything with him is big in the LDS circles.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

The persecution of Christians continues.

[Vaquero]

[subterfuge]

nope, not fear - revulsion nope, not irrational, but a natural revulsion to perversion

Most fags know the idea of being homo is repulsive and that is what they are trying to reverse. They are doing a good job with liberals on that.

[Graybeard58]

Where's the adjectives for all actors?

Would that adjective be "liberal"?

[isrul]

You speak the absolute truth. Just a word used by sodomites and their homophiles to silence and intimidate.

[Graybeard58]

The persecution of Christians continues.

What Christian is being persecuted?

[MrB]

The lib/commies see the homo/SSAD movement as just another tool to chisel away at the foundation of the family as the basic unit of our society.

[MrB]

You should have seen the look on my sister-in-law’s face when she used to word “homophobic” and I said “who’s afraid of them?”

Not sure, but it was as if I had spoken a strange heresy.

[Clint N. Suhks]

How about “Satanist” Alex Baldwin F.A.G.?

Pederast Woody Allen

Pervert Rosie O’Dognuts

Bimbo Barbra Streisand

needs work but there you go...

[gogeo]

The ad is a howl!!!

[isrul]

I know exactly what you mean. It's scary. Kind of like being in an asylum stating something obvious to an inmate.

[Centurion2000]

phobic = irrational fear

nope, not fear - revulsion nope, not irrational, but a natural revulsion to perversion

It's not homophobic. It's homorevulsion.