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God, 1, cheeky advertising, 0, as bottoms will be covered up in bathroom fixture company Toto's controversial Times Square billboard. Originally, bare butts covered only by smiley faces (part of Toto's "Clean is Happy campaign") would have been wrapped around building's corner, but then one of the building's tenants, the Times Square Church, complained.
The church claimed the ad "certainly unsuited for public exposure to children, and antithetical to the values of our congregation and church." A judge blocked the ad from going up while she reviewed the case's "novel and significant issues," but the public will miss out on a debate about commerce, public decency, church, and personal hygiene with Toto's decision to rework the ads.
According to the Post, Toto released a statement saying that a white bar will go "across the bottoms, 'in effect 'clothing' them by removing any hint of their anatomical features,'" leaving the ad to read, "This is our bottom line... Clean is happy. No ifs, ands, or ..." But the full-butt-monty billboards will be seen in LA, where underwearless starlets have inevitably prepped the market.
Ever since the controversy, we've received emails from competitor bidet companies, noting how they support the Times Square Church's plan, with one even offering to donate $10,000 worth of their toilet cover product to the church. Who knew the bidet market was so heated?
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God is rolling over in his grave right now. He loves butts, that's why he invented them. Stupid Catholics.
Funny society this is. We can advertise with violence but a butt gets covered. I don't think it has to do anything with Catholics, tho.....
you know... if the church thinks that a naked behind is unethical then it's because they are twisted perverts who inflate something as innocent as a naked behind (especially in the context of the ad) into something that's "dirty". they are the unethical ones because they see it that way. they truly are sick people and the judge is just as disturbed and weak.
Whatever, Catholic, "interdenominational", they're still a bunch of preemptively perverted retards.
how many billboards over the years have gone up in that 'hood for some action movie with a poster of a guy holding a gun or something exploding from a bomb or something like that. that's okay of course but a naked bottom - god forbid. it does have much to do with the catholic religion and others as well. come on let's be real.
my mom told me to imagine if christianity were invented yesterday. Yeah, crazy right?
Hundreds of years of "progress" and we're still a country of self-righteous puritans. We're still ages from working that prudery out of our system. Bleh.
This is just using religion as an excuse for censorship, which is as bad as the constant use, world-wide, of religion as an excuse for violence.
I really dislike these so called "Christians" (and "interdenominational" tends to be the codeword for these types) who always go about bitching about something or other.
"We don't like this TV show," they shout and they get things canceled, like the superb Book of Daniel which was about an Episcopal priest and had a bit of a following among Episcopalians to the point of the Diocese of Washington used it as a bit of a teaching point.
What did the so-called "Christians" object to? A pill popping priest with a gay son among other things. As an Episcopalian I found it tame, since something based on more factual events would have been considered too strange even to be fiction.
I really think that God gets pissed off when her name is invoked in such nonsense by these dogmatic non-thinking literalists, who more often than not have leaders who are driving around in luxury cars and live in mansions. St. Francis of Assisi they are not.
Ramming your "religious" viewpoint down other peoples throats is just plain wrong and just produces whacked nutjobs who think they have God on their side so they go off to fight insane wars.
Makes me want to go to Mass naked.
Well, maybe not...
This is hilarious. "Butts are unnatural!"
"Whatever, Catholic, "interdenominational", they're still a bunch of preemptively perverted retards."
Of course that kind of ignorant assumption of homogeneity and consonance has never lead to further misunderstandings and problems: we, in our society, tend to assume that all Muslims or Indians or Africans or South Americans or whatever are all the same, so why shouldn't all Christians be... Forgetting, of course, that there are significant differences between Southern Baptists and Episcopalians, Presbyterians and Catholics, let alone the differences of opinions between all the individuals within the different denominations themselves.
fucking prudes! this should have stayed 'new amsterdam' instead of becoming 'new york'.
RE: Heated bidet market...
And don't forget contoured, deodorizing and all lost in the hum of white noise.
It's about the toilet seats, isn't it?
Do we have to have a thread about this every week? I'm getting tired of the pompous liberal religeon haters masquerading as free speech advocates. You don't have to be a prude to not want to look at flabby asses.
just watched Equus. Man those christians love to fuck horses.
Isn't it high time we stop letting ancient misinterpretations of Jewish fairy-tales dictate what we do in the 21st century?
Thank God for Times Square Church !
I visited from Florida in 1998. I attended all 3 services that they had on sunday.
I had a POWERFUL experience in that church.
The glory of God truly is felt among the worshippers in that church. I have never had an experience like that in my life, I left in tears
feeling such beauty and love.
It does not surprise me in the least that they obtained victory in that billboard case.
Are Episcopalians still Christians? I thought that they now teach that Jesus may not have been divine, that you can be both a Muslim and a Christian and that not just the Old testament but the New Testament too, can be picked for what you liked and toss away what you don't.
Why do they even bother to call themselves a church?
So It's OK for a Priest to fondle little boys and if no one finds out it's cool . Let an advertiser show some ass and all hell breaks loose ! Posted by; "Still Not Amused"
#14 those asses were not flabby. yours perhaps, but not those.