Sometimes I have to simply throw up my hands and admit that I don’t understand America anymore. For the second year in a row all major television networks have refused to run an ad by the United Church of Christ

I don’t get it. I mean I really don’t I wrote about the last ad a little more than a year ago. Both ads show gays and minorities being excluded from other churches and welcomed into theirs. Their tag line is “God doesn’t reject people. Neither do we.” and they seem to be a pleasant enough group of people.

Last year CBS and UPN explained frankly that since President Bush was pushing for a Constitutional Amendment to ban gay marriage the UCC’s ad was inappropriate. This year the networks declined because other other, but unnamed, religions might find the ad offensive. The ads themselves are pretty funny and rather harmless.

It blows my mind. In this age of Jerry Springer, all of the networks are refusing to run paid ads because they consider a message of tolerance and inclusion to be too controversial for American society.

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