https://www.mambaonline.com/2011/11/16/benetton-withdraws-pope-kissing-imam-ad/ South Africa's leading LGBTQ news and community platform Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:49:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.mambaonline.com/2011/11/16/benetton-withdraws-pope-kissing-imam-ad/#comment-13281 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/?p=16043#comment-13281 The Pope is a public figure much in the way that Lindsey Lohan is a public figure; I seriously doubt that any suit would be given merit for this reason. Implying that advertising companies should have different advertising strategies based only on the fact of The Pope’s religious stature is pretentious and demeans the true message of “love for all people” that the Vatican professes to believe in. If it was a greating, then why be offended?

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