Why Have Channels 10 & 7 Banned This Ad?

[icyfroth]

Marriage Alliance angry after channels 'refuse to run ads against gay-marriage'

Ms York said the Marriage Alliance wanted to find out what impacts legalising same sex marriage would have.

“We so have to find out what ramifications there will be. What will be the effects, there'll be so little discussion about this,” she said at the launch last Sunday.

The group said it had contacted Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull to make them aware of the decision.

"Has political correctness or the power of a certain lobby group reached so far down that it now erodes the once proud Australian 'fair-go' character that it is preventing ordinary Australians from having a voice?” Ms York said.

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I guess the TV Channels have the right to refuse or accept advertising as they see fit. But this ad isn't really even saying anything for or against. It's just inviting you to contact them for further discussion.

[bluecat*dancing]

Good role models are important.

[Anonymous]

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@bluecat*dancing wrote:

What I find most offensive from their website is them intimating that children from same sex couples suffer from a "lack of a mother's love" and are "limited in their physical, psychological, emotional and intellectual development associated with fatherless or motherless social units (as in same sex marriage). It is ignorant bs like this that harms children and not the gender of the parents.

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i think that most of the anti same sex parenting

argument is not that a mother of a father alone

cannot provide loving environment but that deliberately

denying a child both a mother and a father is not in

the best interest of the child. 

cant really argue with bernadi when he says -

children have rights, adults have responsibilities.

[bluecat*dancing]

 What is in the best interest of a child  is to have a loving and stable environment in which to thrive. Same sex couples [and sole parents] can, and do, provide this. This happens regardless of marital status.

These Marriage Alliance people are using children as an emotive tool to promote their bigotry towards same sex couples instead of justifying their stance against same sex marriage..Children will have the same parents after marriage as they did before.

[this-one-time-at-bandcamp]

Reminds me of Dan Quale's chastising of "Murphy Brown"....... who would you rather have as a parent, Murphy Brown or the consumate bumbler, Dan Quale, "Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child."

[Anonymous]

ch 9 has been airing it.  

i saw it this morning    

[moonflyte]

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

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@debra9275 wrote:

Foxtel's FB page? I just  had a look and all I saw were complaints, complaints about the "against" ads and complaints  that they aren't giving the same air time to  the for ads

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*sigh*

these just from the first visitor

posts page......

Good on you Foxtel, home of free speech and debate.
I might order another box now.

Good stuff with those ads. I think people are entitled to their opinion and defending what they think is right.

Those people who are cancelling their subscription over the Marriage Alliance ads are being utterly ridiculous. They seem to think that there is only one side to a debate. They want free speech as long as it aligns to their way of thinking. Believe it or or not, we live in a democracy and views will be aired whether you like them or not. Well played FOXTEL.

well done foxtel for upholding freedom of speech ,haters always going to hate

Well done Foxtel for standing your ground. You have gotten a long time customer, sticking around a lot longer. Just because a bunch of people are crying over social media, doesn't mean that's the voice of Australia. Don't cave in to bullying from a group of people, regardless of who they are. Free speech to all, pro, anti, or whatever you believe. Well done!! Peace to all!

Great to see Foxtel has a balanced view of the world. There are two sides to any story and especially in the discussion about marriage. If those wanting to redefine marriage can't be less bigoted and let the argument flow freely, then we are even more sad for them that we were.
You want freedom of speech - then live it out each day.

Dear Foxtel,

Thank you for not bowing to pressure to censor the pro-marriage ad.

I want you to know that millions of Australians are tired of being bullied by advocates for changing the law in a way that will create a stolen generation of children without a mother or a father

Thank Foxtel for not caving in to a vocal minority.

etc etc etc

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Thanks for posting julia,

Well done Foxtel, I see the ads all the time.

Just a question to many on here: if you are for the marriage act to remain and are against homosexual marriage are you going to be vilified?