Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Super Bowl

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mike Miller wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>
> > Mike Miller wrote:
> >
> > > Some of the ads were fun or funny.  I really don't like the way they 
> > > use animals in beer ads.  It is obvious that this attracts the 
> > > attention of children and shows them that beer is a very 
> > > highly-valued commodity, the ads that include humans are designed to 
> > > show that normal young men are obsessed with beer -- they'll do 
> > > anything to get beer. We're supposed to lighten up and just laugh it 
> > > off, but they are doing this for a reason and it is working, so it 
> > > really isn't all that funny. They get teenage boys to think that they 
> > > must want beer in order to be cool with their friends.
> >
> >
> >
> > With thinking like that, you should consider joining up with the 
> > Family Research Council http://www.frc.org. :-)
> >
> > (That is, of course I agree with you, but your thinking comes off as 
> > surprisingly like that of a social conservative!)
>
>
>
> I'm sure they have some good ideas but for all the wrong reasons.  For 
> example, one might oppose sex before marriage because of sexually 
> transmitted diseases, unwanted pregnancies, and other good reasons 
> (emotional, social, etc.), but not "because God says so!"  I also would 
> oppose laws prohibiting sex before marriage.  That doesn't mean that I 
> think sex before marriage is a good idea.  In fact, if I were to be a 
> leader of a social movement, one of my rules would be "no sex before 
> marriage."

Well, you are half way to finding the true path!  :-)


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