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SUPERBOWL DOUBLE-STANDARD
Apparently the powers that be at the Superbowl marketing offices aren’t big believers in equality for all.
While agreeing to air an anti-abortion ad featuring Florida quarterback Tim Tebow, CBS has decided against airing an ad from the gay dating site ManCrunch. Although CBS is known for its creative and entertaining commercials as part of every Superbowl, this year they find themselves immersed in a rather delicate issue of advocacy. Their decision has caused an unexpected uproar over the ad itself, the sponsor (the conservative organization Focus on the Family), and the prospect of politics seeping into the three-hour block of sports programing where most Americans are trying to escape from the daily grind.
CBS has now opened itself up to a flood of criticism, which undoubtedly came fast and furious. The so-called “man-kiss ad” from ManCrunch shows two football fans touching hands over a bowl of potato chips, which then leads, as the ad implies, to a make-out session. “CBS has a problem when they do something like this at the same time as they allow an anti-gay group like Focus on the Family to place ads during the Super Bowl,” says Jarrett Barrios, president of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD.) “This network should come clean to the public about what’s going on because this seems to be a homophobic double standard.”
Smh….. this is so sad and such a tremendous double standard I don't even know where to begin.