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As Media Matters for America notes, the network's response to the ad is, at best, inconsistent. CBS ran an ad during the 2003 Super Bowl from the White House Drug Control Policy Agency that suggested that casual marijuana users support terrorism. A number of shows on NBC, including the hit Will and Grace, prominently feature gay characters. And as Rev. John Thomas, general minister and president of the UCC, points out: 'It's ironic that after a political season awash in commercials based on fear and deception by both parties seen on all the major networks, an ad with a message of welcome and inclusion would be deemed too controversial.'

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The United Church of Christ has over six thousand congregations across the U.S., and not all congregations have sanctioned the ad. Others, like the Rev. Curt Anderson, Pastor of the United Church of Christ in Madison, Wisconsin, believe that 'people of good will should be concerned about the message being sent to gay men and lesbians in the aftermath of an election season that saw them targeted by the political right.'

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