Jan. 28th, 2010

angledge: (First Amendment)
I just got an email from EMILY's List informing me that CBS is planning to allow Focus on the Family to run an ad condemning abortion during the Super Bowl. The ad features Heisman Trophy Winner Tim Tebow and his mother.

This wouldn't bother me (much), except for the fact that CBS is reversing its own policy to run this ad -- a policy that network executives claimed prohibited them from airing ads from the progressive group MoveOn.org and even the United Church of Christ because they were just "too controversial." (The UCC ad they rejected mentioned UCC's policy of welcoming gay congregants and others shunned by other churches -- how "controversial"!)

If you aren't going to run ads from one side of the political aisle, CBS, don't change your policy to allow the other side to speak. That is blatantly unfair. Everyone has access, or no one has access.

By the way.... I would prefer that CBS let EVERYONE have access. Free speech & all that.

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