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Ad featuring popular LDS actor pulled for being 'homophobic' (Snickers)
abc4.com ^ | 07/25/08 | Kirby Heyborne (adrag.com)

Posted on 07/25/2008 7:09:59 AM PDT by 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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: ad; ads; chocolate; gaystapo; homophobic; homosexualagenda; snickers
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To: Centurion2000

homo-kataphroneo - to despise homosexuals.


41 posted on 07/25/2008 9:19:21 AM PDT by Centurion2000 (A citizen using a weapon to shoot a criminal is the ultimate act of independence from government.)
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To: Centurion2000

Let me be clear, however.

The behavior is repulsive and revolting.

The people deserve to be treated as people.

Even sticking their perversion in your face is a behavior, separate from the existance of the person.

(Hate the sin, not the sinner)


42 posted on 07/25/2008 9:19:41 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: 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.

I wouldn't say HUGE. I would guess most LDS don't really care much about the silly (and generally mediocre) comedies he is known for. If he were HUGE he wouldn't have to go mainstream to support his family.

43 posted on 07/25/2008 9:19:50 AM PDT by oremites
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To: TornadoAlley3

That commercial is hilarious!

Maybe they were just poking fun at speed walkers instead of gays. It seems that there are people who wake up every morning just looking for something to be offended by.


44 posted on 07/25/2008 9:23:41 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (I zot, therefore I am.)
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To: MrB
The people deserve to be treated as people.

Agreed, but after they depart from it. Until then they pretty much deserve contempt.

45 posted on 07/25/2008 9:24:41 AM PDT by Centurion2000 (A citizen using a weapon to shoot a criminal is the ultimate act of independence from government.)
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To: TornadoAlley3
Folks got no sense of humor whatsoever.

Not that it's all that funny, I'd expect better from Mr. T.

46 posted on 07/25/2008 11:00:22 AM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Do it again, cracker!


47 posted on 07/25/2008 11:04:37 AM PDT by Alouette (Vicious Babushka)
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To: TornadoAlley3

That was hysterical!!!


48 posted on 07/25/2008 11:09:34 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: Graybeard58

The persecution of Christians continues.
What Christian is being persecuted?
____________________________________

I thought the post was about a mormon ??????


49 posted on 07/25/2008 11:14:17 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: TornadoAlley3
The commercial ends with Mr. T telling the audience to "Get some nuts."

Hey!

It influenced Jesse Jack$on!

50 posted on 07/25/2008 11:22:16 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: TornadoAlley3
The candy maker has come under fire before by gay rights groups...

Thank you very much for THIS mental image...





NOT!

51 posted on 07/25/2008 11:23:20 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged
The persecution of Christians continues.

MORMONS are NOT christians

Leftism allows you to hold contradictory ideas in the same mind at the same time.

52 posted on 07/25/2008 11:26:10 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Graybeard58

On it...


53 posted on 07/25/2008 11:26:51 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
MORMONS are NOT christians

Funny then that the official name of their church is:

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

They consider themselves Christian. You are of course free to disagree.

54 posted on 07/25/2008 12:25:01 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: El Gato
 
MORMONS are NOT christians

Funny then that the official name of their church is:

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

They consider themselves Christian. You are of course free to disagree.




The official name of the FLDS bunch church is:

The FUNDAMENTALIST Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

They consider themselves MORMON. The SLC branch of MORMONISM wants to deny them (any everyone else) the RIGHT to call them MORMON.  You are of course free to disagree.


55 posted on 07/25/2008 2:14:55 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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