Posted on 12/15/2019 5:09:47 PM PST by karpov
South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a Democratic presidential candidate, criticized the Hallmark Channel’s decision to pull four TV ads featuring a lesbian couple after a petition by a conservative group.
“Families are built on love—no matter what they look like,” Buttigieg, the first openly gay Democratic presidential candidate, tweeted Sunday.
The channel pulled four ads for wedding planning website Zola featuring brides getting married and kissing after conservative group One Million Moms, a branch of the American Family Association, posted a petition claiming the commercial was not “family friendly.”
“Being ‘family friendly’ means honoring love, not censoring difference,” Buttigieg said.
“This truth will be more important than ever as we rebuild our nation into a place defined by belonging, not by exclusion,” he added.
The New York Times reported the news of the ads being pulled Friday.
A spokesperson for the channel told the Times the “decision not to air overt public displays of affection in our sponsored advertisement, regardless of the participants, is in line with our current policy, which includes not featuring political advertisements, offensive language, R-rated movie content and many other categories.”
Zola’s chief marketing officer, Mike Chi, said a commercial featuring a heterosexual couple kissing was approved by the channel.
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Truly.
It won’t be enough , not even close. It will be full steam ahead now for the gay themed Christmas movies.
Homosexual acts should be illegal everywhere. Homosexuality does not deserve even negative tolerance.
The fact that some dude named Buttgig, who plays butt-darts, is a legitimate contender for the Democratic Party nomination for the office of president of the United States of America let’s me know I left said country in the nick of time. To complete the daily double, I bailed on California in my 60th year. Both seem to be going nuttier every time I look at the news
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