The Hallmark Channel pulled 4 TV ads featuring a lesbian couple kissing

[brooklynite]

Source: The Hill

The Hallmark Channel pulled four TV ads that featured a lesbian couple getting married and kissing after a petition by a conservative group received thousands of signatures.

The ads, which first aired on the channel on Dec. 2, are for wedding planning website Zola. The four ads that were pulled were part of a larger six-ad series, The New York Times reported.

Earlier this week, One Million Moms, a branch of the American Family Association, posted a petition about the ads, saying, "The Hallmark Channel has always been known for its family friendly movies. Even its commercials are usually safe for family viewing. But unfortunately, that is not the case anymore."

The petition received nearly 26,000 signatures, and on Thursday, Zola was notified by Hallmark that four of its ads would be removed.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/media/474594-the-hallmark-channel-pulled-4-tv-ads-featuring-a-lesbian-couple-kissing-after

[Botany]

1. What lesbians can't be part of a family?

BTW The one million moms branch is really a couple of dudes in their mother's
basement with an iMac.

Hallmark is about ready to take a finical hit like they have never seen before.
They are gonna see a boycott that will be massive. Lots of lesbians shop, a lot
of people have family and friends that are lesbians, and it is unAmerican not to
like two lesbians kissing.

[Mike Nelson]

2. I think...

... showing a couple kissing, after they get married, is perfectly normal! I wonder if this boycott group prefers unmarried couples kissing... or maybe Melania Trump and her female photo-shoot friend?

[dewsgirl]

4. Of course they do.🙄

[paleotn]

3. So not only does Hallmark run programming

that makes me want to up chuck, now their taking ad advise from hate groups. Wonderful

[dewsgirl]

5. Yeah right. I would say time for a boycott, but I don't know

anyone that even watches the Hallmark channel anymore.

[dem4decades]

6. Is it wrong if me to hope Ellen calls out Hallmark for this?

I mean Ellen doesn't have to fight all the injustice in the world but she does have the chops to do it.

[riversedge]

7. #BoycottHallMark is trending...........

Link to tweet

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Link to tweet

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[RockRaven]

8. Anyone know off the top of their head who/what owns the Hallmark Channel?

I can't stop watching what I already don't watch, but maybe I can avoid their corporate overlord instead.

[TexasBushwhacker]

13. It's owned by the company that makes Hallmark cards.

[oldsoftie]

17. Crown Media Holdings

[BigmanPigman]

9. That channel is a joke!

I watch reruns of Cheers and Frazier on it and they even bleap out the words "damn" and "jackass". They are super conservative. It is like watching TV from the 1950s.

[ArizonaLib]

22. They resist showing Cheers episodes without Kelsey Grammer

Grammer is an avid republican activist. Basically, it is ok for that channel to broadcast a show which takes place in a bar and another one where the lead character has repeated sexual relations outside of marriage, which they and their viewers supposedly take issue with. It is ok because a republican actor does it. Same hypocrisy as throughout all other conservative family values.

[roamer65]

10. It's one channel is wish I could get out of my Dish package.

It’s utterly useless crap.

At least I have been able to ax out all Faux owned ones.

[Marthe48]

11. Don't watch the channel

and I don't buy their cards, or shop in their store.

If any of my friends are upset by this unjust action, I'll support them if they need me.

The judgmental hypocrites can go to hell.

[Rebl2]

12. What's strange

is they have had Hallmark movies that have gay characters in them in the recent past. Interesting.

[TexasBushwhacker]

14. Shouldn't the organization be called "26, 000 Moms"

Even the American Family Association only has 180K members.

[NurseJackie]

29. Their hatred and sanctimony rivals Westboro Baptist Church

https://tinyurl.com/v3gupzr (Google image search results)

[jmowreader]

15. It may be just me...

...but I found the woman who brought her freakin' LAPTOP to the ceremony to be HIGHLY offensive. Leave that shit home, will ya?

[oldsoftie]

16. Its supposed to be a funny ad, so they go over the top

[Beartracks]

18. This will probably raise Zola's profile, even if Hallmark suffers. n/t

[NotHardly]

19. Hallmark channel so sacrin it makes my teeth hurt...oh, yeah, bad movies

and I was wondering if Hallmark knew that sort of "conservative" petition crap is just a scam to see if they can make someone jump. Looks like Hallmark missed the mark.

[truthisfreedom]

20. I don't watch hallmark.

I’d rather stare at an anthill.

[ArizonaLib]

23. I hear ya.

I used to tune into the early morning Cheers/Frasier/Lucy reruns but once I noticed I couldn't find any Cheers episodes without Kelsey Grammer in their rotation, I stopped. Now, I would enjoy pink eye more than watching anything on that channel.

[Polybius]

21. Hallmark is full of religious-right propaganda

I only watch them for their Christmas content, but now I’m gonna stop that too.

[YOHABLO]

24. Let's see the petition. It's Hallmark's loss. Lots to discuss here.

I doubt Hallmark will lose viewership because of Zola, nobody's watching commercials, they're in the bathroom, or getting another glass of red wine. And of course there are some who will be in the kithen scooping up on that tub of rocky road in the freezer, with a little chocolate sauce. ''Oh my but my child will be watching television" Your child should not be watching these made for tv love novelas, you know with all that sex and 'stuff'. Lord what would we do without Hallmark.

[Jake Stern]

26. When we had cable

my partner would watch those damn written-off-the-same-plot-outline, hyper sugary Christmas movies on Hallmark Channel.

[Rebl2]

28. I like

those surgery Christmas movies. Don’t have to think about that fucking asshole in the W.H. for a couple of hours. Also do those complaining not watch ABC and NBC because of the gay characters they have on some of their shows?

[lark]

27. Well, there goes my 2 Hallmark movies out the window.

Every year I allow myself 2 sappy Hallmark Christmas shows - but that was before now. Now I will not watch anything on this channel.