The UCC ad: A defense of the networks.

I think that an ad like this would be equivalent and that no, a network would not be justified in declining it (assuming that they were not justified in declining the UCC ad, which I guess is my premise).

I feel like the door was opened by all of the political campaign and issue ads that we were barraged with. The UCC ad was no more controversial than any of those. I don't watch enough television to know whether pro-life church ads exist but I have certainly seen billboards with messages like the one you describe, and I don't have a problem with that message being advertised even though I don't agree with it.

Of course this is entirely subjective, the ad, to me, ks very subtle and there is no overt reference to homosexuality. The most blatant thing in the ad is a woman putting her arm around another woman, woman who are only friends do this all the time.

Contrast that to ads about having an erection for four hours! This is just another example of the networks pandering to the religious right.