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RE: Cinema ad banned; church sues
November 27, 2015 at 7:23 am
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The Cinema chains are free to make their own policies, in this case a blanket ban on all political and religious advertising.
You'd have thought someone would have looked this up before they started filming, but then actually checking things doesn't seem to be a priority for the religious...
As for it not being 'offensive', religion to non believers is like a penis, you can have it, you can be proud of it, but don't claim shoving it down our throats isn't offensive.
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RE: Cinema ad banned; church sues
November 27, 2015 at 7:37 am
Ah, so that's what these priests have been doing wrong all this time!
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RE: Cinema ad banned; church sues
November 27, 2015 at 7:43 am
(November 27, 2015 at 7:23 am)Mr Greene Wrote: The Cinema chains are free to make their own policies, in this case a blanket ban on all political and religious advertising.
You'd have thought someone would have looked this up before they started filming, but then actually checking things doesn't seem to be a priority for the religious...
No, their ad was accepted and then pulled.
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RE: Cinema ad banned; church sues
November 28, 2015 at 7:03 pm
(November 24, 2015 at 4:54 am)Mr Greene Wrote: The CofE made an ad that would be illegal to show on TV, and "expected" cinemas to show it despite being directly opposed to the companies policy.
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Setting out to be "offended" for a publicity stunt?
Nothing illegal about the ad. It was refused on the eminently sensible grounds that there aren't enough actual christians in the UK for it to make commercial sense to show it.
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RE: Cinema ad banned; church sues
November 28, 2015 at 7:04 pm
(November 24, 2015 at 4:54 am)Mr Greene Wrote: The CofE made an ad that would be illegal to show on TV, and "expected" cinemas to show it despite being directly opposed to the companies policy.
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Setting out to be "offended" for a publicity stunt?
Noting illegal about the ad, was simply a commercial decision
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RE: Cinema ad banned; church sues
November 28, 2015 at 7:17 pm
(November 24, 2015 at 4:38 pm)Pandæmonium Wrote: Less than 5% attend CofE services on a weekly basis. Guess they thought they could advertise to get some new recruits...before the new Star Wars film.
They should have included some vague references to the force in there, then at least they could have duped some of the sillier fanboys into attending an Alpha course of whatever.
Not like it'd work anyways. All they need do is look next door, and see the rcc with free primetime advertising on state media (RTE1 and RTE Radio 1 before the main news bulletins both give out the angelus) have driven numbers in their pews from 85% to the super high 30ish% in the last thirty years (10% of whom actively disbelieve god, based on the bishops' conference's own polling numbers).
The fact of the matter is, that as knowledge enters a person's brain, religion gets driven out.
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RE: Cinema ad banned; church sues
November 28, 2015 at 7:19 pm
The church will sue over anything except the corruption happening within its own walls.
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RE: Cinema ad banned; church sues
November 28, 2015 at 8:40 pm
I would think that the owner of a private cinema could refuse to screen anything he didn't feel like screening. I certainly don't think that this is an appropriate field for government intervention.
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RE: Cinema ad banned; church sues
November 28, 2015 at 9:05 pm
(November 27, 2015 at 7:43 am)Aractus Wrote: (November 27, 2015 at 7:23 am)Mr Greene Wrote: The Cinema chains are free to make their own policies, in this case a blanket ban on all political and religious advertising.
You'd have thought someone would have looked this up before they started filming, but then actually checking things doesn't seem to be a priority for the religious...
No, their ad was accepted and then pulled.
hmmm...not quite.
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