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Vatican not happy with Benetton ad campaign showing Pope kissing a man
by GoPride.com News Staff
Fri. November 18, 2011  6:48:42 PM : 2 Comments - continue the discussion
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Rome — The Vatican has gone beserk over a new Benetton ad campaign that shows Pope Benedict kissing Muslim leader Ahmed Tayeb, head of Al Azhar in Cairo. The ads also show other heads of state -- mostly men -- photoshopped into kissing scenes.

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    The Vatican has filed a lawsuit demanding that Benetton drop the "Unhate" ads, which are appearing in magazines and shop windows around the world.

    "We are sorry that the use of an image of the pontiff and the imam should have offended the sensibilities of the faithful in this way," Benetton said in a statement.

    The other ads show President Obama kissing Chinese leader Hu Jintao and Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is shown kissing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. German Chancellor Angela Merkel is shown kissing French Prime Minister Nicolas Sarkozy. 

    Benetton has also started up a new website, "UnHateFoundation.org," which asks this question:

    "What does UNHATE mean? UN-hate. Stop hating, if you were hating. Unhate is a message that invites us to consider that hate and love are not as far away from each other as we think. Actually, the two opposing sentiments are often in a delicate and unstable balance. Our campaign promotes a shift in the balance: don't hate, Unhate."

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    He should consider himself lucky. I'd propose several pictures, one of him giving oral sex to a AK49, a dog, a man, a crucifix, and so forth. The best I could do is a life sized effigy of Jesus getting a BJ from the pope. Remember folks, Jesus was the son of god, so he had to have a big one if 12 men and a prostitute were following his ass around. GET REAL.
    I would love to see the church DESTROYED. It is E V I L !!!!
    Die, pope: die die die !
    Posted by violdick on Fri, 11/18/2011 7:29 PM
    awwww.... poor pope!
    Posted by Lydia LeVieux on Sat, 11/19/2011 1:51 PM
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