Globe and Mail: Famous Players (theaters) drops same-sex advertisements

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As of this weekend, Famous Players, Canada's largest movie chain, will no longer run any "issue-driven advertising" in its 79 theatres after pre-film ads it's been carrying in support of same-sex marriage prompted a boycott of its theatres by opposing groups.

"We were starting to get e-mails that were threatening to our staff," Nuria Bronfman, the Toronto-based vice-president of corporate affairs for Famous Players, said yesterday.

... However, one of the groups opposed to the ads, the Calgary-based Canadian Family Action Coalition, thinks that even with the new policy, the boycott should continue at least until Famous Players agrees to run an anti-same-sex marriage ad "similar to what they ran for the other side."

... One slide said: "'I do' means the same thing, whether you're straight or gay. Let your MP know you support our Charter of Rights and Freedoms." The other: "Marriage is a fundamental human right, whether you're straight or gay ....."

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[BrklynLiberal]

1. I didn't know intolerance was like a virus that could spread over the

borders like this. How sad. I hope the Canadians show more courage and integrity than Americans and spit in the face of this "Canadian Family Action Coalition".
I have little doubt that noise was all started by American fundies.

[Maple]

2. It'll all be over with

shortly. Once the bill is passed, it will die down, and life will go on.