No campaign launches ad deemed too ‘explicit’ for daytime
The Coalition for Marriage鈥檚 new ad has been rated MA, and can only be shown after 8:30 at night.
Commercial television body Free TV gave the ad the MA rating because it includes extracts from the Safe Schools program referring to sex, according to .
The ad was judged to have 鈥渄epictions of implied sexual activity and verbal sexual references鈥.
The ad, which launched this week, features text lifted from Minus18鈥檚 OMG I鈥檓 Trans and OMG I鈥檓 Queer resources.
鈥淚t鈥檚 a total lie that all guys have dicks and all girls have vaginas鈥 appears on the screen, as does 鈥淧enis-in-vagina sex is not the only sex and certainly not the ultimate sex鈥.
The Coalition for Marriage, which continues to argues that marriage equality will lead to Safe Schools鈥搒tyle 鈥渞adical鈥 sex education, is not happy that its new ad can only be shown during restricted times.
鈥淚t is beyond belief that taxpayer-funded [LGBTI] sex and gender education materials openly made available to students of all ages are given an MA rating for television,鈥 said spokesperson Lyle Shelton.
鈥淭he issue of these materials, of parents鈥 rights, and the direct relationship with changing the Marriage Act are there for all to see, and parents should beware.鈥
A marriage equality supporter who appears in the new ad has spoken out, saying she was 鈥渄evastated鈥 to have her image used in the No campaign, has reported.
Paola Mitchell, a volunteer sign language interpreter, appears at the beginning of the ad signing at an LGBTI rights rally.
The ad has emblazoned 鈥済ay sex education鈥 under her image.
鈥淚鈥檓 proudly and openly gay and it just tears me apart to my very core and devastates me my face is even remotely associated with this rubbish from the No campaign,鈥 said Mitchell.
Mitchell has asked the Coalition for Marriage to remove the ad, but they have reportedly refused to say whether they will.
鈥淚t鈥檚 irresponsible and they obviously don鈥檛 care who or what they do is affecting,鈥 said Mitchell.
The marriage equality postal survey is coming to a close, with the Australian Bureau of Statistics recommending voters return their forms this week.
I hope she sues the pants off them, the churches have billions of dollars in cash and assets.
#MakeChurchesPayTax