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Irish Broadcasting Commission Rejects Christmas Ads From Catholic Bishops

By Howard M. Friedman

The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) General Advertising Code, Sec. 9, as well as Section 10(e) of Ireland's Radio and Television Act of 1988 and Section 65 of the Broadcasting Act 2001, ban the broadcast in Ireland of ads "directed towards a religious end." In a press release issued yesterday, BCI said that applying this ban, it had rejected a number of scripts for a proposed Christmas advertising campaign by the organization Veritas which is owned by the Irish Catholic Bishops Conference. According to yesterday's Irish Times, the offending ad encouraged people to buy a Christmas gift that "means more."

Full post as published by Religion Clause on December 05, 2008 (boomark / email).