Benetton Ads for UN HATE Create Drama with the Vatican

BENETTON
recently created digitally altered ads as part of an "unhate" campaign featuring political and religious leaders, including President Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao as well as French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel kissing.

BRILLIANT!

Well, the Vatican did not think so. After strong protests from the Vatican, the Italian clothing company Benetton has pulled an ad showing Pope Benedict XVI kissing a senior Egyptian imam, the BBC reports.

Vatican spokesman Federico Lomabardi called the ad "absolutely unacceptable" and said it showed "a grave lack of respect for the pope (and) an offense to the feelings of believers ..."







The public-relations- savvy clothing company has frequently mounted controversial ad campaigns, including one showing a nun kissing a priest and a man dying of AIDS.

"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.

Posted by Gay Travel and Gay News at 11/17/2011 10:13 AM
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