[Apologetics] CREDO Action: Tell CBS not to air anti-abortion Super Bowl ad

[Art Kelly]

--- On Mon, 2/1/10, LiAnna Davis, CREDO Action <act at credoaction.com> wrote:


From: LiAnna Davis, CREDO Action <act at credoaction.com>
Subject: CBS: Don't air anti-abortion Super Bowl ad
To: "Art Kelly" <arthurkelly at yahoo.com>
Date: Monday, February 1, 2010, 11:59 AM




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Tell CBS: Don't air Focus on the Family when you reject progressive advocacy ads. 








CBS needs to hear from us. 


 


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. 


 
Dear Art, 
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. 
Click here to sign the petition to CBS insisting they follow their no-advocacy policy and reject the Focus on the Family ad before the Super Bowl on February 7. 
More recently, on Friday CBS rejected an ad from a gay dating site showing two men discovering a mutual attraction when their hands brush in the potato chip bowl. The actors then pantomime a comical make-out session. But CBS says the ad "is not within the Network's broadcast standards for Super Bowl Sunday." 
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. 
We must call CBS out on its hypocrisy and demand that it also reject the Focus on the Family ad. The Super Bowl is America's annual most-watched television event; more than 98 million Americans tuned in last year. And as anyone who's ever been to a Super Bowl party knows, the ads can be even more closely watched than the game, which is why CBS must not unfairly allow anti-choice commercials while rejecting those for other causes.
Click here to add your name to the petition urging CBS to follow its own anti-advocacy policy, reverse the decision, and deny Focus on the Family's anti-choice ad. 
Thank you for standing up to anti-choice hypocrisy.
LiAnna Davis, Campaign Manager 
CREDO Action from Working Assets 





 
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