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Christians Renounce GoDaddy Over Racy Super Bowl Ads
The ads, one of which features Patrick stripping and taking a shower, sparked the ire of Christian groups and organizations, and these groups are now pulling their sites and e-mail services off of the hosting company's servers. Brian Harrell, who manages Web and e-mail hosting for dozens of churches and faith-based organizations, says that up to 60 of his clients have already requested that their services be moved to another provider.
Harrell even wrote a strongly-worded letter to GoDaddy in which he called the president of the company "a sex addict or pervert," and ended by telling the company, "...you ALL have to be judged for your sins when you die."
Really, the most shocking thing to us is that the hordes of Christians using GoDaddy waited until now to dump their service. Check out the gallery below for a look at some other controversial companies that were the subject of bans and boycotts. [From: Wired]
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Motrin Ad Pulled Due to Online Protests
In November of last year, mothers took to the Twitter-streets in protest of a Motrin video advertisement that, they claimed, belittled young mothers. In no time, Johnson and Johnson took down the ad, posting a letter of apology.
Apple Pulls "You Can't Be Too Thin" Ads
In 2007, after airing an ill-advised ad campaign for their new line of iMacs that featured the tag line "You Can't Be Too Thin," Apple received innumerable complaints, including one from the Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness. The ads were promptly pulled.
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Comments
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Subscribe to commentsJesusFeb 5th 2009 8:02PM
Dear "Christians"...
In the words of your beloved Dick Cheney....
GO FU$K YOURSELVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
rickFeb 5th 2009 10:13PM
and yet those same Christians, the ones who know better than all of the rest of us combined - had no problem with the dating service for married individuals that ran commercials in their biggest market - Texas - during the Super Bowl.
Houston, San Antonio & Dallas are all the biggest markets for ashleymadison.com - whose motto is "life is short. have an affair."
Maybe Ashley Madison can sponsor Joel Osteen & his wife next.
RyanFeb 6th 2009 9:50AM
Don't knock Joel and Victoria Osteen. They are doing so many wonderful things for people all over the world through missions, charity, and real compassion. They are not perfect by any means. They do more good than bad, and they are more givers than takers. What are you doing good for society? You claim Christians are judgemental yet you have no problem judging Christians or people from Texas.
ACFeb 5th 2009 10:59PM
I am soooo sick of these so-called superior christians trying to tell everyone else how to think, act and live. Screw 'em! They called the head of GoDaddy a sex addict or a pervert. Do they mean like pastor Ted Haggard? Clean up your own back yard and stay out of mine.
ObanFeb 6th 2009 12:29AM
I am a God-fearing Christian firmly embedded in my beliefs. I have zero business telling someone else how to live their lives.
seriousam7Feb 6th 2009 1:42AM
Same here. However I'm sure Christians aren't the only people who thought those ads sucked. They weren't even remotely funny.
Master ShakeFeb 6th 2009 2:40AM
I'd love to transplant some of these puritanical American Christians
into one of several other countries for about a week. There are ads
that would give them a heart attack! I just saw a public service
announcement in Romania where a girl who was about 8 years old wearing full makeup, does a striptease and pole dance on a bus. The ad told parents to be sure to explain proper sexual conduct to children when they are young! There was another ad I saw somewhere in Europe (I forget where) with a boy about 13-14 years old making out with a nun, including feeling her up through her clothing. I have no idea what the ad was for, but all I could think was what Americans would have to say about that. ROFL Oh - and another campaign in Germany that ran for a long time was for Jaegermeister liquor, and had children saying how since their drug dealer got arrested, now they drink Jaeger - and some of the ads showed children about 7 years old smoking pot.
lFeb 6th 2009 11:46AM
who cares? how many christians use bodog anyway? if bodog ignores them the issue will go away in a week. these groups are doing what is equal to financal blackmail by threatening to boycott. but if they dont use the services of the company anyway their boycott doesnt matter. companys just should ignore it 99.9% of america had no prob but a few losers with too much time on their hands have to complain.
lesFeb 6th 2009 10:22AM
seriousam7 - you are correct. I am no fundie, but I thought they were stupid and inappropriate.
lesFeb 6th 2009 10:28AM
Master Shake - I am in no way puritanical in my beliefs - not by any stretch. But, I can figure out that the companies who use sex, etc. to sell their products are desperate and have no imagination. At what point to you think pedophilia is an appropriate way of selling something? I believe a 13-14 year old making out with a nun (who obviously is an adult) is called just that. It doesn't take a fundamentalist to believe that is just wrong. What kind of twisted sense of morality do you have?
Davidicus LyndiumFeb 6th 2009 5:19PM
The bottom line...really, folks...is that Danica is a babe.