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Thursday, August 02, 2007
Church's Suit Over Times Square Billboards Settled
In New York, a settlement has been reached in a suit brought by a Times Square church to prevent a company from placing an ad for a bidet toilet on billboards on the side of the building housing the congregation. (See prior posting.) The planned ad was to feature bare buttocks with smiley faces on them. But Pastor Neil Rhodes had problems with his congregants encountering nudity as they went to church. Yesterday's Christian Post Reporter says that under the settlement, the billboards will go up, but the buttocks now will be covered with a white band that runs the length of the ad. On the band will be the words: "This is our bottom line. Clean is happy. No ifs, ands, or ..."