Saturday, February 1, 2020

Shame on Fox for Rejecting Pro-Life Super Bowl Commercial, Running Drag Queen Ad Instead

 OPINION   JAY MAXSON   JAN 31, 2020   |   11:07AM    WASHINGTON, DC
To the power brokers who determine which ads are approved for the Super Bowl, drag queens, social justice warriors and gun control advocates are not at all controversial. Organizations seeking permission to run pro-life ads on Super Sunday are unacceptable, however.
During this Sunday’s Super Bowl broadcast, Fox will air ads featuring former RuPaul program drag queens, NFL social justice warriors and presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg’s gun control spot. The network is thumbing its nose at the Faces of Choice organization and its request to air an ad with a pro-life message.
Faces of Choice officials have been trying unsuccessfully for more than six months to purchase ad time during the Super Bowl, but have received no response from Fox Sports. The ad features more than a dozen abortion survivors and debuted at last week’s March for Life in Washington, D.C.
Lyric Gillett, the founder of Faces of Choice and producer of the ad (see longer 2-minute version below), said, “Every great human rights movement in history has been anchored in the stories and the faces of its victims. That’s what we aim to do; we simply want to tell their forgotten stories and there’s no larger mega-phone than the Super Bowl. …”
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If those abortion survivors had been drag queens, they might have been given a better chance of telling their stories on Super Sunday. Kim Chi and Miz Cracker (seen above in photo), who previously appeared on the TV program “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” will appear in a commercial for hummus brand Sabra during the Super Bowl.
NBC reporter Liam Knox calls the drag queen ad “a barrier-breaking debut during one of the year’s most watched sporting events.” Bob Witeck, a marketing strategist who specializes in LGBTQ messaging, calls the drag ad “revolutionary”:
“For queer audiences, it is an art form and an ‘outsiders’ language. Reaching the Super Bowl means taking our language into every home in the nation and millions around the world.”
Witeck said the drag queen ad will reach nearly 100 million viewers during the Super Bowl and is indicative of a sea change in the public perception of drag. It’s already been normalized for several years by the RuPaul program. Witeck says:
“The Super Bowl is the ultimate test, when you can take chances like this and realize that the fear of drag is nothing people imagined it to be. It’s us telling our own joke about ourselves, with a sense of humor and authenticity … with luck, everyone laughs with us.”
CNN Business reports the NFL “is wading back into controversial territory with a new Super Bowl ad addressing police shootings of black Americans.” Its 30-second ad will feature retired wide receiver Anquan Boldin re-enacting the 2015 police shooting death of his late cousin, Corey Jones. The police officer was sentenced to 25 years of prison.
Boldin formerly played with quarterback Colin Kaepernick on the San Francisco 49ers team when the latter staged his season of protest over racial inequality in 2016. This ad is a promotion for the league’s Inspire Change initiative, a program created to address athletes’ social justice causes in their home communities, writes CNN’s Chauncey Alcorn.
Patrick Yoes, president of the Fraternal Order of Police, which represents 800,000 officers across the United States, said the Boldin ad mischaracterizes how police typically interact with their communities.
Finally, former New York City mayor and current presidential hopeful Michael Bloombergis also airing a controversial ad during the Super Bowl. It will focus on Calandrian Simpson Kemp, whose son was the victim of gun violence. Bloomberg will boast of his record of fighting gun violence and his campaign pledges to pursue gun control.
LifeNews Note: Jay Maxson writes for Newsbusters, where this originally appeared.
ACTION: Complain to Fox Sports by going here or to their Facebook page or Twitter.


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Joe Biden Claims He “Respects Religious Freedom,” But Will Force Christians to Fund Abortions

 NATIONAL   STEVEN ERTELT   JAN 31, 2020   |   10:16AM    WASHINGTON, DC
Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden is claiming that he would “respect religious freedom” as president. But he would force Christians to fund abortions if he gets the nomination and defeats President Donald Trump.
Here’s the video Biden posted on Twitter putting his lack of self-awareness on full display:
No sooner did Biden post the video than Father Dan Beeman quickly took him to task, saying, “The Little Sisters of the Poor agree. You’ve abandoned your faith and Church and now claim you fight for religious freedom? Repent and turn to the Gospel.”
Father Beeman is right.
After Biden came out supporting overturning the Hyde Amendment and forcing Americans to fund abortions, pro-life Americans made it clear they opposed his position supporting taxpayer-funded abortions up to birth. Biden then flip-flopped and said he would not support efforts to overturn the Hyde Amendment, which protects Americans from funding most abortions.
But after an outcry from abortion advocates when he flip-flopped, Biden then flip-flopped again last June and now says he will support forcing Americans to fund abortions up to birth with our taxpayer dollars.
Biden said he supported forcing Americans to pay for abortions. “It can’t stay,” Biden said of the Hyde amendment during an exchange with an ACLU activist earlier this month. The video of the exchange was posted by the ACLU on Twitter on May 8th
Here’s the transcript of that exchange between Biden and an ACLU activist [emphasis added]:
ACLU Activist: I’m an ACLU Rights For All voter, and I have one quick question for you. And that is: Will you commit to abolishing the Hyde amendment, which hurts poor women and—
Biden: Yes…. Yes. And by the way, ACLU member, I have a near-perfect voting record my entire career.
ACLU: I heard you did. But I’m glad you just said you would commit to abolishing the Hyde Amendment.
Biden: Right now it has to be… It can’t stay.
Biden clearly answered “yes” and “it can’t stay” when asked if he’d “commit to abolishing the Hyde amendment.”
Naturally, pro-life organizations called Biden out for his support for taxpayer-funded abortion on demand and for changing his position repeatedly.
SBA List President Marjorie Dannenfelser told LifeNews: “Joe Biden’s support for taxpayer funding of abortion after decades of opposition is just the latest example of Democratic extremism on abortion. Long gone are the days of ‘safe, legal, and rare.’”
Polling data is clear that Americans oppose abortion funding.
A January poll conducted by Marist University finds an overwhelming majority of Americans support restrictions on abortion and would like Roe v. Wade reinterpreted to allow restrictions on abortions. It also found that three-quarters (75 percent) of Americans oppose taxpayer funding of abortion abroad, fewer than two in 10 (19 percent) support such funding. Opposition to this funding includes most Republicans (94 percent) and independents (80 percent) and a majority of Democrats (56 percent).
By a double-digit margin, a majority of all Americans oppose any taxpayer funding of abortion (54 percent to 39 percent).
Despite the data, Biden is still an ardent abortion supporter.
Biden has a strong pro-abortion voting record that goes back for many years, and he supported President Barack Obama’s leadership as the most pro-abortion president in U.S. history. What’s more, pro-abortion movement leaders say they “trust” Biden to protect abortion on demand. As the vice president, he supported the administration’s pro-abortion policies, including Obamacare, which forced religious employers to pay for drugs that may cause abortions.
From 2001 to 2008, Biden’s voting record on pro-life issues was close to zero, according to the National Right to Life Committee. In 2005, for example, he voted against the Mexico City Policy, which prohibits funding to overseas groups that promote and/or perform abortions. He also voted repeatedly to require that military service members’ abortions be covered by taxpayer dollars.
Kate Michelman, a former leader of NARAL, is not worried.
“Joe Biden continued his evolution on the issue under Obama. He got there,” she told the newspaper. “I can’t say for absolute, 100 percent, but I would trust him as president to protect and defend a women’s right to choose.”
To show how far Biden has come toward the pro-abortion view, he once likened an abortion to an operation — as if taking the life of a baby before birth is somehow beneficial in the same manner as a patient’s operation.
Biden said: “Maybe where Romney is most sketchy is on women’s rights. I got a daughter and lost a daughter. I’ve got four granddaughters and Barack has two daughters. And this is to our core. Our daughters and our granddaughters are entitled to every single solitary operation, every single solitary opportunity!”

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WATCH: Here’s the 30-Second Pro-Life Super Bowl Commercial Fox Rejected

 NATIONAL   MICAIAH BILGER   JAN 31, 2020   |   12:22PM    WASHINGTON, DC
The 30-second pro-life ad that FOX Sports rejected for Sunday’s Super Bowl does not even mention the word “abortion.”
Produced by the new Faces of Choice pro-life organization, the ad was created to air during the big game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers. It shows people who have survived abortions asking the question, “Can you look me in the eye and tell me that I shouldn’t be alive?”
The simple, yet profound ad makes people think about the injustice of abortion without mentioning the word. Through the faces and words of abortion survivors, it exposes the undeniable, ugly truth that an abortion kills a unique human life.
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But FOX rejected their stories for the Super Bowl – and chose to run a controversial ad featuring drag queens instead.
Lyric Gillett, the 28-year-old founder of Faces of Choice and producer of the ad, said the network gave them the run-around for months before it finally told them “no.”
This week, a FOX spokesperson told the Washington Times that they sold out of ad space early and could not fit in the Faces of Choice commercial.
But Gillett said they were led to believe that there was still ad space. She said they answered multiple questions from the network and provided various requested documents. At one point, she said the network told them that they would receive an answer by the end of November.
“FOX’s response would have been acceptable in November but we have been working with their legal team since July, so executives claiming ad space was not available is intentionally deceptive,” she said. “Faces of Choice provided every answer and documentation the legal team requested and though the network has every right to decide which advertisers to accept, stringing along an eager advertiser who met every demand is professionally shady.”
Within just a few days, more than 100,000 people sent messages to FOX asking the network to air the ad, Gillett said.
Pro-life advocates have noted that FOX found no problem with running another controversial ad during the big game. A Sabra hummus commercial scheduled to air features two drag queens/LGBTQ activists.
Monica Cole of One Million Moms told One News Now that the network has a double standard.
“They approved of this particular [drag queen] commercial to air when children are watching the Super Bowl and they know that they’re watching,” she said.
But FOX rejected the abortion survivors’ ad.
Gillett and the abortion survivors are not giving up. She said they already have begun talks with CBS about airing a commercial during the 2021 Super Bowl.
They hope that, by sharing their stories with a huge audience, they will break down the myth of “choice.”
“Abortion advocates need to look these survivors in the eye and come to terms with the fact that they are human, that their lives matter, and that choice is more than a word: it’s a person,” Gillett said.

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