Homosexual Porn Site Ad Comes Down After Pro-Family Protest
by Jim Brown
July 29, 2005
(AgapePress) - Complaints from outraged pro-family activists have prompted communications giant Clear Channel to remove a billboard in the Boston area that advertised a pornographic homosexual website. The controversial billboard featured two bare-chested men embracing while draped with an American flag. The sign on Massachusetts Avenue read, "Come together. Gay.com." (See earlier article)
Yesterday, after receiving complaints from conservative activists affiliated with the group Article 8 Alliance, Clear Channel had the ad taken down. Article 8 Alliance director Brian Camenker says the move was due to the "massive outrage" expressed by people who finally knew who to call with their complaints.
"Clear Channel had not put their logo on that board," Camenker explains. "They put it on every other board in the country, but not that one -- and probably for good reason." He says the Gay.com billboard was "the most disgusting thing you'd ever want to see on the side of a street: two men, one behind the other, naked, embracing, wrapped in an American flag, advertising a pornographic 'hook-up' website."
The Massachusetts pro-family activist hopes the controversy over the Gay.com sign will deter homosexual activists from posting similar billboard ads. He contends that the homosexual movement, particularly in Massachusetts since the same-sex marriage ruling, wants to push homosexuality in people's faces.
"They want to normalize it," Camenker asserts, "and I think what it takes is people being outraged. We're hoping that this sends the message, 'No, you can't do this right in front of our faces on our streets.'"
Clear Channel's regional office in Stoneham, Massachusetts, did not return phone calls seeking comment for this story. Incidentally, the Gay.com ad was by no means the first controversial ad accepted by the communications giant. Two years ago in Westboro, Massachusetts, ClearChannel Outdoors unveiled an advertisement promoting the legalization of marijuana.
Jim Brown, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
