Distracted, yet again.

[pecunium]

I made the mistake, as I was thinking of writing some food porn (Nero Wolfe novels will do that to you) of doing some sidebar reading.

CBS has refused to air an ad by a church (the United Church of Christ). It was an ad about inclusion. It wasn't shrill, it wasn't accusatory, if anything it was too subtle
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The debut 30-second commercial features two muscle-bound "bouncers" standing guard outside a symbolic, picturesque church and selecting which persons are permitted to attend Sunday services. Written text interrupts the scene, announcing, "Jesus didn't turn people away. Neither do we." A narrator then proclaims the United Church of Christ's commitment to Jesus' extravagant welcome: "No matter who you are, or where you are on life's journey, you are welcome here."

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So why did CBS refuse to air the ad?

"Because this commercial touches on the exclusion of gay couples and other minority groups by other individuals and organizations," reads an explanation from CBS, "and the fact the Executive Branch has recently proposed a Constitutional Amendment to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman, this spot is unacceptable for broadcast on the [CBS and UPN] networks."


UCC Press release

The exuctive branch is against gay marriage, so a church which is for inclusion, and makes a very quiet ad about it (if you blink the reference to gays will slip right past you) is told it's too controversial.

I am becoming more nervous every day.

Comments

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Feel free. Link if you want. I write this sort of thing because I'm pissed off and want to tell people, so they can become pissed off. I'm tired of getting pissed on.

Then I go, to and fro in the world, and find people who are making arguments for it, and challenge them (there's a guy apostate who is trying to tell me the US was a Christian Nation at its founding, and the guy in Cupertino is being unjustly persectuted).


It keeps me sharp.

TK

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

trying to tell me the US was a Christian Nation at its founding

Yeah, that's why Jesus (and/or Christ) is mentioned so many times in the Declaration and the Constitution and the founders' writings in general. Uh huh.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Hey, he hasn't responded yet to my riposte, but feel free to go and have a look.

I confess, I took his screen name as being more indicative of his mind than it proved to be, and had I read more of his thoughts, I might have given up ab initio


tk