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New Controversial Gay Rights Billboard

In New Zealand. Put up by a local Anglican church.

I know, right? Now tell your friends!
New Controversial Gay Rights Billboard
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The New Zealand parliament took the first step to legalizing gay marriage last week, by a vote of 80-40. But it is only the first of three votes that must be held before the bill becomes law.

Auckland’s St.-Matthew-in-the-City has a history of erecting button-pushing boards outside their church. Last Christmas, they put up this Virgin Mary holding pregnancy test ad.

That billboard was ripped by an angry citizen.
We’ll see what happens to this one.

Ad agency: WhybinTBWATequila, Auckland.

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    • Richard Parker 8 months ago

      A truly Christlike attitude — by the church, NOT by the person who ripped it.

    • SteelRenegade 8 months ago

      Although the ad is for LGBT rights, the messaging of it could also be looked at in support of interracial marriages in some parts of America. The reports coming out of the U.S. on mixed couple marriages not being allowed in some churches.. should look at this ad in the same way.. “We don’t care who’s on top”… with black + white wedding figures on the cake. I do not find this ad sleazy as some have made this ad out to be, I think it could be interpreted in a few ways to support injustices/discrimination with its message.

    • Kte McA 8 months ago

      As a Christian I honestly wouldn’t have thought twice about this billboard.

    • Cinnamon Broom 8 months ago

      I don’t like it (the billboard). I think it plays into the whole “I’m okay with lesbians… as long as I can watch” mentality — which is just misogyny and homophobia disguised as tolerance. Gay people deserve to be able to marry, not because straight people get their rocks off watching young, hot women kiss, but because they are human beings with rights. Gay marriage is for old as well as young, fat as well as slim, and ugly as well as beautiful. Let’s not confuse the issue.

    • WhatTheHolyHeck 8 months ago
       

      It’s only controversial to assholes.

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