Tell CBS: Reject the Focus on the Family Ad or Accept the UCC Ad (please sign the letter)

[Brother Buzz]

I was requested by other DUers to repost this from another thread for higher visibility. Take a minute of your valuable time to sign it, you'll feel good. Thanks.

Reject the Focus on the Family Ad or Accept the UCC Ad

Five years ago, CBS rejected an advertisement from the United Church of Christ (UCC) that said churches should be a place of inclusion, regardless of age, race, gender or sexual orientation. At the time, CBS deemed the advertisement too controversial, telling the UCC that the network had a "longstanding policy of not accepting advocacy advertising."

Yet, just a few years later, CBS has cleared an advertisement by Focus on the Family -- to be run during the Super Bowl, one of the highest rated television programs of the entire year. Focus on the Family has a reputation as one of the most anti-LGBT organizations in the country, routinely going on the record to call gay marriage perverted, say that homosexuals are a threat to civilization, and that homosexuality can be repaired. Moreover, the founder of Focus on the Family has previously said that sex education strips girls of their modesty.

On top of that, the Focus on the Family advertisement that CBS plans to air during the Super Bowl will take a hard-line position on abortion. How is a history of anti-LGBT statements, coupled with an ad that will take a conservative position on abortion, not controversial?

It seems like there is a serious double standard at play here. On one hand CBS is telling the UCC that it's "too controversial" to talk about a church free of discrimination, and on the other hand saying that it's perfectly acceptable for an organization with a history of violent language toward gays and lesbians to take controversial positions on social issues.

I urge you to reject Focus on the Family's Super Bowl advertisement, holding this organization to the same standard you held the United Church of Christ to five years ago. Beyond that, if you choose to continue with the Focus on the Family ad, I urge you to offer the United Church of Christ another opportunity to air their advertisement on your network.

http://www.change.org/actions/view/tell_cbs_reject_focus_on_the_family_ad_or_accept_united_church_of_christ_ad

[Politicub]

1. Signed, and K&R!

Let's stop the hate. CBS is poking its finger in the eye of the LGBT community by allowing this ad.

:kick:

[Brother Buzz]

4. CBS is poking its finger in the eye of UCC members, too

[Politicub]

11. Yes they are - and shame on CBS for that, too n/t

[lamp_shade]

2. Done earlier today.

[Beaverhausen]

3. done

[cilla4progress]

5. Done!

[pleah]

6. Already done. K&R

[hippywife]

7. I did it but now wish I hadn't.

I'm totally behind the UCC but I don't want any issue ads to be aired.

On edit: Mine didn't go through, I'm not redoing it.

[Ignis]

8. K&R. Thanks for posting this as an OP.

:yourock:

[Brother Buzz]

10. Don't thank me, that that person that kicked me in the butt to post an OP

Oh, that was you! ;)

[Ignis]

12. Butt Kickers R Us!

But really, you got the same response from several people. And our kvetching didn't make this an OP; YOU did.

:woohoo:

[Parker CA]

9. k&r

[donheld]

13. done

[Arkana]

14. I hear it's going to star Tim Tebow.

I pity the team that drafts him.

[MikeH]

15. Done, and K & R