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Yanked Heinz gay mayo ad: Watch and tell us what you think
By April MacIntyre Jun 25, 2008, 14:52 GMT
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No big Deal at all!
funny ad! what's the fuss?
Well, it's a tad bit bizarre -- why does the guy look like a New York butcher? Typically British humour, I guess. Other than taking slight exception to the guy being called 'mum' -- what's the big deal?
Great ad. Oh my people, just get OVER it already. Learn to love everyone and life would be so much nicer for all.
Other than the attempt to over do it on the way the 'Yank' spoke, I don't find anything wrong with it. It is a hard attempt on behalf of the company to over draumatize the gay lifestyle for (maybe) shock value. Seriously....even 'straight' partners do not call each other 'sweet cheeks'.
Sick, Sick Sick. Especially bringing innocent children into the perversion.
Unbelievable! Two people who share a home, children and their life can’t be represented on TV by your product? Why not? In essence, they caved into a couple hundred closed minded morons, which I don’t think is great customer service. Not to mention they've deprived millions of people from seeing another side of life, a side that is as normal as any other side of life to millions and millions of gay folks. Gay folks who buy products.
Shame on Heinz!
Rick
USA
OMG! That was so benign! People need to relax. Sheesh, no big deal.
What a great ad! It feels good to be included in something as ordinary as a family mayo ad!
Was this ad even supposed to be showing a gay couple? I took it as the guy making the sandwiches was actually the 'mom', but she made sandwiches like a New York deli (due to the awesome mayo)...so they show her as a NY deli guy and it all just adds up to a hilarious commercial. Even if it really was a gay couple, I would find the ad to be less genius, but still pretty funny.
Man, I thought people in Europe were supposed to be LESS uptight. What a bunch of whiners.
That was hot!
This ad. would most certainly put me off buying any Heinz product and not just the one advertised. Well done Heinz for prompt action.
Cute and funny. A non-issue in my opinion.
What's wrong with this? No, it's what's NOT right with this. What's to be next....NAMBLA ads for cheez whiz? Pedophiles for smuckers jam?
Hom-s should keep it in the closet where it belongs.
This is the last time I ever buy any hellman's products. Yechh!!!!
What's all the fuss about. It's fun.
Oops! Correction...I meant to say heintz products.
Not ready for this yet
No Big deal! It's funny!
there's no issue with this ad. yea, it's a bit cliché, but, other than that, I have no problem with this ad. Why can't a man be called mom? It's what happens in gay households. Would it have been better if it was a woman being called dad?
Harv is right - Sick, Sick, Sick
It's good. Liked watching it.
What's wrong with it? NOTHING!! People need to get over their phobias. The world is a diverse place. Live and let live as the old saying goes..SHEESH!!!!!!!
THIS is the state of the world today, when people's lifestyles cannot be portrayed because some people don't approve of it. Maybe I don't approve of upper class families being shown in commercials because we are a working class family and I am offended by companies using the stereotype that all families that use their product are upper class. Is this really what the world is coming to?
What's the big deal? Funny ad. I might have even tried Heinz mayo had I seen the ad on TV.
God it's amazing how some people can be so ignorant. It's a shame that Heinz stopped running this ad... There is nothing wrong or offensive with it by any means. Can't everyone just love and accept people for who they are? I mean seriously, for all the homophobes: what is so bad about a gay or lesbian person? If you are basing your opinion on the bible, don't even respond. The bible is the biggest B/S ever created.
Umm.. yeah. Jesus loves you.
[and me, even though I am gay] ;]
I'm not really sure this is a good ad. The emphasis is very much on the relationships and not on the product. And I felt like I was hit on the head with their relationship to the point where I forgot all about the mayo. So I don't think it was money well spent if the intent of the ad was to sell mayo.
Heinz should realize that for the 200 complaints that the network received, there were probably 2000 people who were happy to see an ad that appeals to a group who has been so left out from the norm.
I don't find it offensive at all. And I don't see why it has to be such a big deal explaining same se relationships to children. My partner's 7 year old grandson knows about same sex relationships and he knows that his mummy and daddy are going to be fine if he grows up to be homosexual. And I think that is a GOOD thing for children who find that they have gay feelings to know that they are not 'wrong' in any way, just gay.
shouldn't be such a big deal -we should get used to it
Wow! People are so gay focused today that the schtick behind that commercial went right over your heads! It has nothing to do with homosexuality and it's not meant to represent a homosexual couple.
The ad is for New-York-deli-style mayo. The 'mum' is the type of guy you'd see behind the counter in a New York deli (in fact he looks like DeNiro), right down to the apron and paper hat. The point of the ad is that using this mayo will make your sandwiches taste like they came from a New York deli.
People need to lighten up and accept reality. The commercial was sarcastic and humorous. Yes, it depicted a man called 'mum' and his partner called 'sweet cheeks.' Welcome to the new world where gays and lesbians are all around us living as normal families.
Heinz, along with every other business, need to accept the fact that you cannot please everyone. No apology should have been made and the commercial should have remained on-air. Only persistence will win this battle; celebrities businesses need to move forward with mainstream society because the antiquated 'traditional family' is gone and the conservatives haven't realized that yet.
I'm sure that a few people may switch to another mayo or ketchup brand, but most people who were offended will move on and keep buying Heinz.
no one makes an ad like this without trying to push these buttons. is it really about free expression, or sensationalist marketing: make the ad itself the subject of debate, thus marketing the product. since this isn't political and the goal is to sell something, isn't this just propagating 'gay culture' for base means? The subject matter doesn't offend me, but I am growing more offended by this sort of manipulation of society for commercial purposes. The goal here: sell mayonnaise. the means: by making a controversial commerical to get people talking about it. isn't there something wrong in that, since I cannot manage Heinz has some big homosexual agenda? I think everyone should be slightly offended by that.
OK so... This is a Commercial in UK where frontal nudity is allowed...and after hours, suggestive language and depiction of sexual activities...
ummm..... What?
Not a big deal at all...though the 'cook' outfit was a bit odd. In the real world, there are male partnerships and female partnerships and they may have children. Those children go to school with our children, so why not be open about things and explain life to your kids? Help them understand and be accepting!
it is a big deal i for one do not think we need to see gay men or women in commericals for any product and surely shoud never be shown when children can see
Don't see the add, but anyway I think it's sick! I don't care how you slice it up, two men or women kissing is against the laws of nature.
This crap is no ways right! I know I'll get a bunch of you guys blasting back with more of you crap, but do you see any gay things in nature?
Gay Lions, Dogs, fish, birds, ...........
This will be the down fall of humanity, for real.
Sick, Sick, Sick.
And I don't have to see the add to know.
I will predict that less than 20 years from now, if you speak against any gay stuff you may be in serious trouble! it all most like they are trying to shoved it down your guts!
I don't hate anyone, but I don't need anyone life style shoved down my guts, gay or straight!
I think it's wrong and should have the right to say so.
OMG, not a big deal!
But to avoid the back lash from the nay sayers, they should have had him give a peck on the cheek vs very close to the mouth.
IMO, I thought it was funny.
ok, so the deli man was taken the place of the mother. This is complete humor. I did not see anything GAY about this add. Heinz could have shown a woman speaking with a New York Deli man voice, but it would not have been as humorous. When did our world get so picky about everything. If you don't like it change the channel. Better yet grab a book or go outside. What are you doing watching TV anyway? There is a world outside of the box!
I think the ad is adorable. This fuss is all about the minority of people who are still trying to force us to act, think and believe as they do since they know in their hearts (since they have no brains) that they are the sole custodians of truth and morality.
Why should we have to have this type of thing in our face? It is entirely unnatural, and sickening to me. Marriage has always been between man and woman. What is the next crazy idea?
no big deal. Kind of lame really. Then again, if it happened here (USA)around 1000 people would have complained rather than 200. Oh the world we live in!
Rueben - Nice to see that your opinions are well informed, in that you are criticising an ad that you havent even see - Way to go, really intelligent. Reminds me of all the religious leaders who called for a ban on Monty Python's 'Life of Brian' even though they hadn't seen the film.
If you bothered to open your mind before your mouth, you would realise, like many other people who have posted on here, that the ad was NEVER supposed to show two gay men kissing. It was supposed to suggest that if the 'mum' uses the Heinz 'deli' mayo, it would be like having a New York deli chef in your kitchen....why else is he wearing the white hat, apron and talking with that great New York accent and attitude in an English household. Before people on all sides, the religious zealots, the homophobes and the gay community get on their high horses, they should actually pay attention and figure out what it is they are actually shouting about.
Gay people are a fact of life, and homosexuality in the animal kingdom is well documented. I agree any lifestyle, gay, religous etc should not be 'shoved' down other peoples throats, but denying the existance of something which is plain for all to see, is bigoted and narrow-minded.
At least we still have people in this world that will stand up for what is right. Just because so many people are accepting homosexuality doesn't make it right. Worse yet having children (as if that could ever happen naturally), I'm glad that they pulled the ad, I would never want to see that on TV, if I had I would boycott the company.
It's hilarious.
Not Bad,quite funny. I think there should be some balance though and they should have two lesbians being smeared with mayo and kissed all over, then there would be something to shout abaout!!!
Now everyone grow up or look away.
The majority of parents don't want their young children exposed to homosexual propoganda - that's a fact. That doen't make them homophobic (what a wonderful buzzword). Nearly all children go though a 'gay' stage at a certain age but go on to develop normally (is that a forbidden word??). A vociferous minority are trying to exercise more influence than the majority - who seldom (except in instances like this) make their views known.
Dee - My comment to Rueben is as applicable to you. You are, yet again, someone basing their comments upon other peoples interpretation of what they have seen. At least have the decency and common sense to watch the advert for yourself on YouTube or elsewhere on the net, and then form YOUR OWN OPINION of what it is about, and don't just jump to the same conclusion others have.
People may have taken this ad too literal. It's not a gay couple, it's a straight couple but product is so good that it feels you have your own New York deli guy at home. Of course that doesn't mean that advertisers didn't expect the reaction the as has gotten.
I can't believe how ludicrous this is. This ad isn't even about homosexuality, it isn't portraying a family with two same sex partners. It is a joke, which is actually portraying a very conservative notion of family structure (2 kids, mom in the kitchen, dad going off to work, etc.). I am so frustrated that a few fringe fanatics can influence society in the way these right wingers do. Forget the 'gay agenda' our country has been high-jacked by homophobic ignorant evangelicals who have to attack every small thing while ignoring the real problems in society. And why is it that a commercial can get this much attention but when the president of the National Association of Evangelicals is caught taking meth with a gay prostitute there isn't so much as a whimper. I guess they need to attack others so they don't have to look too closely at themselves.
Yeah I know that the ad was just trying to be funny, but I don't find humor in homosexuality at all. Even though it wasn't stated it was implied, to be humorous...some things are just better left alone. There are many ads that use the same tactic with implied sexuality, but not many people complain or has the ads pulled, it is because we are inundated by things that we are just supposed to accept and slowly we begin to. Well, I for one won't stand for that, which is why I shouldn't be writing on this site in the 1st place today is a really nice day I should go outside *trails of...*
I worked for thirty years in advertising creating strategies that sold products. Trust me. This is not a good ad. How can paid 'professionals' drop such a bollock? Any positives for Heinz (like the extra publicity this has generated) will be seriously out-weighed by the negatives. Management Bottom Line ? Someone should be fired for this.
BRILLIANT AND VERY FUNNY!
The people who complain about homosexuality being unnatural or unseen in the animal kingdom are clearly very unobservant of the world around them. But isn't it strange how they complain about two guys kissing on the grounds that (in their opinion) it's unnatural, but not about feeding an unnatural high fat product to children? Such a shame that Heinz have pandered to the ignorant.
I don't see what the bloody fuss is about with this stupid AD.
I mean, just look at youtube
It looks like bloody apocalypse-armageddon-Gehenna-Jihad on there with those idiotic christians and muslims all screaming 'KILL THE GAY PEOPLE' and running around like little piss-ant twats...
Where did I leave my gasoline and lighter, I got some ants to burn...
The ad is disgusting. If I had seen it on TV I would have turned off the programme supporting it in disgust.
I don't get it. What's the problem. The woman with the New York accent was pretty ugly, but she can't help it.
Sick ! disgusting, unnatural, What on earth has the world come too, i wanna puke
There is some very subtle humor here. The product is for DELI style mayo. They're trying to play on the New York Deli angle by having a deli guy from the bronx playing 'mum'; alluding to 'mom can make sandwiches just like the NY Deli's by using this mayo'.
If you recall, Snicker's tried this angle during a recent superbowl, however, their ad's were much more overt and grotesque, which resulted in consumer backlash.
Given that the UK sophistication and approach to humor are more sophisticated than the US, I dont' see the big deal...but I'm not a fan of guy on guy action.
No big deal at all!
Utterly inoffensive, I can't believe they pulled the ad.
If it only takes 200 complainers to get things off the tv, maybe we should band together to get rid of some really rubbish programmes. Not that there'd be much left to watch...
I think its disgusting that they removed this advert, and using children as the reason is pathetic, in a age when children are likely to go to school and have a friend who has same sex parents it's wrong to teach them that it is anything other than fine. I actually thought the advert was funny as well, certainly will think twice before buying the product now.
Heinz = 57 varieties.
God = Two varieties - Man and Woman.
Designed for each other a perfect example.
Two men kissing is one of those 57 Varieties.
When the world actually ceases to notice the vile and the abhorent then it's all over.
i personally love the advert. i think its fun and good humored. i think its just political correctness getting out of control. if i were heinz i would rather the 200 people who complain stop using their products.
The gay lobby are onece again behaving like silly paranoid children. Get over it!. 70% of the population don't want the gay lifestyle shoved down their throats on primetime TV.
So what that Heinz pulled an ad.
The fact that Outrage! is getting so upset over the pulling of an ad, and threatening to 'boycott' Heinz products shows them up for the imbeciles that they are.
Much ado about nothing. People need to lighten up and come to terms with the real world...
Not ready for this sort of advertising.
Great ad - witty and subversive. Presumably the objectors are about to head off to the C of E conference to object there too.
I agree with the ad being pulled. Although you sexual preference is your choice, I do not want to see it, and especially do not want my kids to see it.
Seems normal to me.
This is not a good marketing idea! They are a good company with bad marketing is all! I wont buy it!
Greg UK
I almost fell off my chair from seeing these two gals kissing. I don't go around degrading such homosexual acts as long as they don't appear in my immediate surroundings. Heinz has put this commercial which is offensive to a parent raising good kids. Don't allow these acts to be part of the American lifestyle.
What is the big deal ? The ads have been showing heterosexual couples kissing since tv started.I am offended it took this long to support people other than this.
I find it sad that those people who believe that gays and advertising depicting gays should be considered perverse or wrong. The fact is people are gay. Wishing it wasn't so will not make it go away. Having grown up in surroundings where I never had knowledge of anyone who was gay or anything about the gay lifestyle (as some of these 'parents' seem to want to shelter their children in the same way), I knew I was gay and felt very ashamed of what I was feeling. I know some people would say 'good', but the problem is that these same people have kids and when they portray that attitude to their kids, they will also shame them and deprive them of a happy childhood and possibly adulthood. To those parents, don't be surprised if your son or daughter grows up to continue to have those same feelings and they grow away from from you. I have seen it happen time and time again. Unfortunately, if they are constantly told what they are feeling is wrong, they could take other more drastic actions which nobody wants especially their families.
As for those that claim it is an in-your-face assault on the non-gay community to depict such a relationship, what do you think your view is to them?
Silly Faggo-s,
Dix are for chix.HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!! What's next, a guy poppin' his mate in his bum as an advetisement for Preperation H while the kids watch??? Sick, perverse, deviant, unnatural, immoral....shall I go on? If I ever see that kind of crap in public I would definitely interfere and say something. Time for normal people to stand up to this atrocity abd quell it immediately.
I think it is disgusting and sick.
first chance i have had to see the ad - what is the problem with some people ? This is 2008 for goodness sake, i thought it was quite good and amused to see `mom` in the `butch` role. They should NOT have pulled the ad.
should have added - to pander to the minority of homophobes and bigots. By the way i am hetrosexual and proud, what is the big deal in being homosexual and proud.
Is that it? I can't see what all the fuss is about.
I'm with Brooke. I think the majority of the people who complained are actually just idiots who didn't 'get it'. It's not supposed to be a gay couple at all!!
I agree with starpost on advertising...my 11 year old could probably come up with a better ad to sell whatever product it was they were trying to sell. I think they wanted to get the attention. Cheap trick by maybe the advert company to get more publicity. what happened to the classic old commercials...for ketchup(eg)? 'anticipation is making me wait...etc'....get a good tag line for your product and no one will be offended...you will cover the whole market share...strait, not, middle class, not,purple, blue,you catch my drift... I through out everything because the ad was stupid and I am sick of watching dumb tv...you are allowed your opinion and I am also allowed mine...
I knew it.. if they can't cut it as hairdressers they train to make sandwiches.
..are probably struggling with their own sexuality. Like that guy who ran the FBI.. Hoover.
Did not really seem gay, quite funny. Could of been made more funny though. Advertisers seem talent anaemic now. Coked up 'tards.
It could be taken however you want to take it. If it, indeed, is meant to depict a gay couple, so what. Most intelligent kids know what it's all about at a young age. It's the up-tight, older people who don't understand anything different than their own situation who would raise the most stink. True gay/lesbians are born that way just as any other person born 'different' than is considered 'normal' - autistic, celebral palsey, Down's Syndrone, missing body parts, etc.!!
The ad is terribly offensive. It offends a holy God. The one Who created us and tells us in His Word that homosexuality is a sin. Just as lying is a sin, lust is a sin (Jesus said anyone who lusts in his/her heart has committed adultery already) murder is sin, stealing is sin, blasphemy (using God's name in vain) is a sin. All of these things are sin and highly offensive to a holy God.
That is why this ad is offensive.
The homosexual community has tried succesfully for years to normalize their sin and try to make the rest of the world believe that it is just normal behavior and that there is really nothing wrong with it. That is a lie straight from the father of lies, the devil himself.
Sin is sin no matter how you slice it!
Because of our sin, everybody is already condemned to an eternal seperation from God in a place Jesus Christ described as horrible. He said weeping and gnashing of teeth would characterize this place...Hell.
God is Holy and just. He will judge all sinners according to His word and His righteousness. The floods of God's wrath are pounding against the flood gates of God's mercy and grace. One day and probably soon God's patience and mercy will give way to the flood of His holy wrath. His wrath will be poured out on all sinners.
All except those who are saved. Those who are saved are tho ones who have REPENTED of their sins (turned away from their sins and confessed them to God)and placed their trust in what Jesus Christ did for them and believed that Jesus is the only begotten Son of God.
God demonstrated His love for us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
How much more could God show that He loves us. Despite the fact that He is just, He still wanted to provide a way for all of us sinners to escape His awful wrath. That one way, the only way is through Jesus.
Yes homosexuality is an abomination to God. It is sin. The unsaved homosexual will spend forever in Hell with all the unsaved religious people, all the unsaved liars, all the unsaved fornicators, all the unsaved heterosexual thieves, all the hetero murderers and all the homosexual religious people. If you've not repented and placed your trust in JEsus Christ you are forever lost and must pay for your sins yourself, and God says that is eternity apart from Him in a place called Hell.
Please if you've not been born again (saved) do so today. The Bible says today is the day of salvation. God called a man a fool for believing he would live another day. God said (paraphrasing) 'You fool! DO you not know that tonight your life will be required of you!?'
Repent of your sins and turn to Jesus Christ now. Then you can live a truly free life, free from the burden of sin.
God commands us to repent, and the greatest commandment of all Jesus said is to love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
Your sin has made you an enemy of God..Stop being His enemy and start loving Jesus now.
Your eternity depends on it.
It is God's will that you be saved. The Bible says it is not God's will that any should perish, but that all repent and place their trust in Christ Jesus.
I supposed next we'll be forced to watch Viagra commercials featuring gay couples. I don't need to see this stuff. No thank you. It's not main stream to me.
This whole shambles has really show us how many sad people are out there full of hate and intolerance. For those of you so fond of quoting the bible as your excuse for this hate I would like you to quote me any part where Jesus talked out against gays. If we all followed the bible to the letter then we would be stoning/burning and executing each other to the point of extinction. If being gay is a choice then why do people 'Decide' to be gay when they live in countrys that torture them and put them to death.
Lets have some respect for each other and not expect every one to live by our own perceived morality.
I think the ad itself has now become almost irrelevant and it has covered up the fact that brand of mayo is not very good
I am so sick and tired of the gay agenda. Why do we have to accept this lifestyle? They are always shoving their crap down our throats and then turn around and call us intolerant if we don't accept it. I find the gay community one of the most intolerant group of people around. They need to accept the fact that their lifestyle is disordered. Period. Grow up and face it.
The only close minded people here are the ones' who won't accept that there are those of us who find this offensive. Accept the fact that there are people who embrace moral behavior. Homosexual behavior is immoral. Tough to swallow but it's the truth.
In response to eclecticstars' comments....You said 'For those of you so fond of quoting the bible as your excuse for this hate I would like you to quote me any part where Jesus talked out against gays. If we all followed the bible to the letter then we would be stoning/burning and executing each other to the point of extinction. If being gay is a choice then why do people 'Decide' to be gay when they live in countrys that torture them and put them to death.
Lets have some respect for each other and not expect every one to live by our own perceived morality.'
I will have to disagree with you.
You speak as if the God of the Old Testament is a different God than in the New Testament. They are one and the same and homosexuality is condemned in both Testaments as a great sin against a Holy God.
I wish to answer your argument about Jesus not teaching about gay marriages. I think a simple reading of what Jesus said about marriage in general will show you what a careless reader you are.
When the Pharisees questioned Him about divorce, notice what Matthew 19:4-6 says, “4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, 5 And said, For this cause (that they are male and female) shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? 6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together (a man and a wife), let not man put asunder.”
On divorce He said, “from the beginning it was not so.” Jesus went back to the Creators’ design for marriage and it’s:
1. Participants (male and female)
2. Practicality (leave father and mother)
3. Purpose (the two shall be one flesh)
4. Prohibition (do not put asunder what God joined together)
5. Principle (as His Will was for it to be as in the beginning)
Jesus believed the book of Genesis. He speaks of creation of the world (Mark 13:19), of man (Matthew 19:4), and of the marriage of Adam and Eve (Matthew 19:5-6). He speaks of Abel’s martyrdom (Matthew 23:35), Noah’s flood (Matthew 24:37-39; Luke 17:26-30), Abraham’s faith (John 8:40, 56), Isaac (Luke 13:28), Jacob’s dream (John 1:47-51), and Lot’s wife (Luke 17:32). But He also spoke of the destruction of the Sodomites’ cities of Sodom and Gomorrah (Luke 17:28-32; Matthew 10:15; 11:24; Mark 6:11). If there had been 5 couples in a “loving married relationship” by your perverted view, hundreds of thousands of souls would not have been destroyed. Ten righteous souls is all that were needed to spare the city.
Your attempt to separate the Old Testament and the New Testament and the Old Testament God and the Lord Jesus; is futile and ludicrous. Jesus is the Creator of all and the very one who instituted marriage. Marriage is the picture of Christ and His Bride (the Church) using the same compassion. “31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. 32 This is a great mystery (or revelation of God): but I speak concerning Christ and the church. 33 nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.” Ephesians 5:31-33
You, sir, by your gay marriage views would make Christ a spiritual homosexual. Such blasphemy will not go unnoticed or unpunished by our Ominscient God who in the beginning established His directive Will and made them male and female. Adam said, “this is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman because she was taken out of man. Therefore, (what’s that “therefore” there for?) shall a man leave his father and mother and cleave unto his wife (woman) and they shall be one flesh.” Genesis 2:23-24
I suggest you repent of your sins and ask God to wash your sins away by the blood Jesus Christ spilled for you. And God, by the power of His Holy Spirit, will change your heart and your mind about sin.
Incidentally, the “Jesus never said anything about it” argument is absurd on its face value. He never mentioned pedophilia, bestiality, cannibalism, rape, wife beating or any number of other sins. The only one who would use such rationale is someone trying to defend some kind of a practice that he is involved in. It’s kind of like a witch defending seances. God in the New Testament addressed it, but Jesus never referred to it, so by your rationale Jesus permits it?
Sin blinds people to their own foolish rationale. Please let Christ set you free from your sin and from the condemnation you are currently in.
didn't know YouTube was so uptight. creepy.
I feel the ad showed great creativity and was clever and not at all unsuitable for children, Gay famlies are reality and children should not be protected from that because of Homophobic parents. A Gay commercial will not make your child Gay it may comfort that child to know there are others like Him or Her in the world and cause them a lot less pain and shame in the future. Maybe the offended people should lighten up and chill. However I do wish that Heinz corperation had left it on the air and not let a few people rule their open minded way of thinking.
Shame on Heinz for failing to stand up for all families by cutting the delightful, creative and healing ad about a gay family leaving home for the day. I doubt that 200 people are even 10% of their viewing audience yet the conservative percentage of any given population who are gay is 10%. Heinz didn't even use math to figure out that there are at least 10% of their audience is gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered families not to mention their families and friends who love and respect them. That a lot of mayo lost to 200 uninformed viewers. Not smart Heinz!
No big deal!!! Here we go again with a segment of the population trying to control the world we all share. Pathetic. Sorry that Heinz backed down on this one.
Have you people no sense of right and wrong? Do you not know that the God that created us all says in His Word the Bible that homosexuality is sin? What is wrong with you that you all cannot see that or won't admit to it? Wake UP! If you have ???'s on what I'm saying, see my earlier comments a page or two back.
Come on, it is sin and it is wrong! It is offensive to a holy God. Please wake up and see that. Don't try to fool yourself and others into thinking it is a lifestyle or that folks are born that way. We are all born sinners yes. But just because I have a tendency to want to tell a lie (which is sin) that doesn't make it okay for me to tell a lie. Same goes for homosexuality. Just because you are born with a desire to sin (which we all are born with sinful natures, doesn't mean it is ok to sin) We must all give account to God.
Repent, confess your sin, trust in the only One who can save you form the wrath of God...His name is Jesus. Call out to Him now.
What a creative and entertaining ad. Then again, I'm from NY and get the humor of the deli guy.
Either way, religion is a matter of opinion. You can share your opinion, but not force others to live by it. If you can't live by those rules, then keep your religion to yourself.
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