Thursday, February 5

Rejected Super Bowl Ad…

Mark Nelson at 3:11 PM 6comments

6 Comments

at 4:42 PM  Britt said...

I'm not sure what I think of that. I think it's great that they're saying this man who was born to a single mother could become a U.S. president...and come from hardships to greatness. However, what does it have to do with being catholic? Is it saying, hey the Catholics voted the right way? I can definitely see the controversy in it.

 

at 9:53 AM  ragamuffinminister said...

Part of me wonders if they saw the irony of creating a pro life commercial for a pro abortion president.

I'd like to think it was their clever way to evangelize to him. Obviously, there's no way a commercial a heavy political slants will ever make it. But maybe that wasn't the intent anyway...

 

at 2:26 PM  Anonymous said...

Seriously, pro-abortion? I bet one would be hard pressed to say anyone is pro-abortion. And if you say by permitting it he's for it, then you'd have to say God is pro-sin.

 

at 4:18 PM  Katie said...

I think it was (would have been ?) an attempt to evangelize pro-choice Obama supporters, since many who are pro-choice consider poverty and lack of family support to be legitimate reasons for abortion.

Perhaps it is also an attempt to remind Catholics to vote according to their values.

 

at 1:08 PM  ragamuffinminister said...

Not necessarily Kevin. But I see your point nonetheless.

 

at 10:48 PM  Anonymous said...

There seem to be two different issues here.

1) Should it have been rejected?

2) What are is my (our) individual opinion(s) on the ad?

Well, I don't think it should have been rejected. There is nothing obscene about it. I always lean away from censorship. I think NBC is just cowardly and doesn't want to upset other advertisers and viewers and are thinking of market share. They don't care a bit about the actual message of the ad except to the extent it impacts their bottom line.

However, how do I feel about the ad? Well, I like its hopeful feeling, how it encourages us to look at hardship and struggle and that encountering these does not mean a life can not over come or flourish because of suffering. However, I don't think it adds much at all to the abortion debate. While abortion is not the choice I hope I would make due to my moral convictions, there would be much heartache and sadness, and further exploitation and oppression of the least of these if abortion were made illegal. I don't know that there is a clear cut answer to the abortion debate even for believers in Christ...

 

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