UUCOC Conversations » Call to Action http://www.oakcliffuu.org/wp Where Reason is the Partner of Faith Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:21:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 2006-2010 conversations@oakcliffuu.org (Unitarian Universalist Church of Oak Cliff - Dallas, Texas) conversations@oakcliffuu.org (Unitarian Universalist Church of Oak Cliff - Dallas, Texas) Religion - Unitarian Universalism 1440 http://www.oakcliffuu.org/wp/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/uucoc_podcasts144.jpg UUCOC Conversations http://www.oakcliffuu.org/wp 144 144 Our Sunday Services and other special events at the UUCOC Where Reason is the Partner of Faith Unitarian, Universalism, Liberal, Religion Unitarian Universalist Church of Oak Cliff - Dallas, Texas Unitarian Universalist Church of Oak Cliff - Dallas, Texas conversations@oakcliffuu.org no no Tell CBS: Don’t air anti-abortion Super Bowl ad http://www.oakcliffuu.org/wp/2010/01/tell-cbs-dont-air-anti-abortion-super-bowl-ad/ http://www.oakcliffuu.org/wp/2010/01/tell-cbs-dont-air-anti-abortion-super-bowl-ad/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:01:54 +0000 Melissa Bartell http://www.oakcliffuu.org/wp/?p=230 The broadcast networks that air the Super Bowl have historically rejected advocacy ads. Yet CBS, which is airing the Super Bowl this year, has accepted an anti-choice ad by the ultra-conservative group Focus on the Family.

Focus on the Family’s “celebrate life” (read: anti-choice) ad features Heisman Trophy-winning college football star Tim Tebow. And CBS approved this anti-choice ad, even though the network has repeatedly rejected advocacy ads in past years including a 2004 MoveOn.org ad that went after then-President Bush’s fiscal irresponsibility and an ad the same year from the United Church of Christ showing them welcoming a gay couple who had been turned away from another church. And they just rejected a comical ad from a gay dating site from this year’s lineup of ads.

So to recap: CBS wouldn’t allow a group to criticize Bush, wouldn’t let a religious group promote its own tolerance of LGBT families and considers a light-hearted dating ad out of bounds. But CBS is perfectly happy to allow Focus on the Family to promote its conservative social agenda.

Join me in calling on CBS to kill the Focus on the Family ad before the Super Bowl on February 7!

http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/superbowl_focus/?r_by=-2611598-m85tuqx&rc=confemail1

Source: Credo Action

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