A TV station in Chattanooga TN has refused to run an ad sponsored by a pro-LGBT group. The ad features a man who is a Republican and Navy officer who is also gay. The station felt it was too controversial. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
“An NBC-affiliated television station in Chattanooga, Tennessee, has declined to air a pro-gay marriage ad starring a conservative Republican soldier.
Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld is a combat anesthesiologist who served in Afghanistan with the Navy. In the ad, which is produced by the group Freedom To Marry, he says that he’s “fighting a different fight” in the state where he and his partner, Judd Taback, live.
“I’m a Republican, I’m a doctor and I’m a soldier,” Ehrenfeld says in a voice-over in the commercial. “As a military physician, I take care of other people’s loved ones who are wounded in combat. But here at home, I’m fighting a different fight. Because I’m gay, I’m not allowed to marry my partner here in Tennessee where we live.”
Read more here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/30/jesse-ehrenfeld-right-to-marry_n_7476514.html
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