Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Gay Priests Ice Cream Adverts Banned

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: An ice cream company has been banned from using an advert showing two gay priests about to kiss, just a month after being ordered to withdraw a campaign featuring a pregnant nun.

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The ASA ruled that the ad must not appear again and told Antonio Federici to ensure future ads were not likely to cause serious or widespread offence. Photo: The Daily Telegraph

The latest Antonio Federici ad, which appeared in Look magazine, showed two priests in full robes eating from a tub of ice cream ''in a seductive pose as if they were about to kiss passionately'', the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said.

Accompanying text read: ''We Believe in Salivation''.

Defending the advert, the company said it did not mock Catholicism but ''reflected the grave troubles they considered affected the Catholic Church''.

Antonio Federici was a Catholic company, but would continue to produce advertising that challenged the Catholic Church while it believed it remained troubled, it added. >>> | Tuesday, October 27, 2010