CBCP pleased with pullout of fast food dating kids ad
MANILA, Philippines—The Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines is pleased that a McDonald's ad showing two children wooing each other has heeded its call to stop airing at once.
The 30-second ad of the giant fast food chain has been pulled out since Tuesday night from airing on major television networks following appeals from some officials of the Catholic Church who said the ad conveyed a wrong message on relationships to viewers. ...(continued) http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20110412-330770/CBCP-pleased-with-pullout-of-fast-food-dating-kids-ad
Dyu think this is right? I suddenly remember the stories I learned in history. During the Spanish times, we were strangled by those people who instilled in us the fear of what is good and bad. Now centuries passed, and are we still under the shadow of their hold on us; what is right for us and what is wrong.
Like the RH bill, don't they realize that we are but like them, we THINK too and are not just silent morons who wait for them to tell us what is right and what it is they think is wrong.
That commercial was CUTE.
It spoke to me of childhood innocence, of the naivete of the children as they realize that there is something out there in the way their parents love each other, how they need to give and show love. Never in my wildest thoughts did I think about anything malicious about that commercial. What I thought was, those two kids are just symbols of the love that we need to have, the innocence that we need to use to view the world.
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