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Related: About this forumMichael Hill Super Bowl XLIX 2015 Commercial | What Would You Do For Love?
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http://www.advocate.com/business/2015/02/01/watch-gay-lovers-featured-moving-super-bowl-commercial
With what's going on in my life right now, this brought tears of joy & hope to me. I hope it does the same for you.
chopper050
(43 posts)I love it..
lark
(23,166 posts)Touching, true!
newthinking
(3,982 posts)That is so well done I seems like it could reach out to even stubborn minds.
You hardly notice it is a commercial.
I would donate to see it changed just a bit to remove the commercial aspect and run as a campaign.
PumpkinAle
(1,210 posts)thanks OP.
classof56
(5,376 posts)It's difficult to explain how much Rod's words and music meant to me during a lonely and difficult time in my life, so many years ago. I've been watching his videos the last couple of days, feeling my heart crack a little each time, accompanied by some pretty major tears finding their way down my face. Thank you, Rod, for your healing messages, and thanks, William769 for posting these videos. They brought tears, too--as you say, tears of joy and hope.
Blessings and peace.
sheshe2
(83,957 posts)A beautiful message William, so very true.
Thank you and I thank Michael Hill~
a la izquierda
(11,797 posts)Personal issues at the moment.
montana_hazeleyes
(3,424 posts)is so hauntingly beautiful.
0nirevets
(391 posts)Beautiful. Sadly here in DFW we were treated to local car dealer ads instead. I knew local NBC stations were up to something when they kept putting on local commercials during the Superbowl. They've never done that before. You see, Christians, especially the Texan bigot variety of Christians, see love and passion as an evil, carnal thing, something to fear and keep secret. Pathetic.
MADem
(135,425 posts)I wonder if there will be consequences? After all, TX is in transition--they could find themselves in hot water with the network if some broadcaster with deep pockets and sane ideas decides he or she wants the market....!
0nirevets
(391 posts)If I'd spent Superbowl bucks on a commercial, you know like $4 million per 30-second spot, and then I found out some redneck car dealer in DFW got the plug instead from the local affiliate, I'd be screaming bloody murder. But that's just me.
LiberalArkie
(15,730 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)It's remarkable that their campaign is so much richer and better than any other other than I've ever seen.
Bravo.
QuestionAlways
(259 posts)What Would You Do For Love? Die, Cheat. Fight, Lie. These are good things, these are OK? I think not. And what does Turn mean, like a person has a choice? People are who they are, they have no choice, they are born the way they are.
William769
(55,148 posts)I feel bad for you.
QuestionAlways
(259 posts)I do not even know what I do not understand
0nirevets
(391 posts)Love is life and death stuff, you put it all on the line. Imagine being in love with someone, then having an entire society taking a stand against you just because you want to express your love for your partner or want to get married. Imagine having your car vandalized because you are a man who loves another man, or a woman who loves another woman, and living with the threat of violence just for being who you are. Imagine being brutalized as a child by schoolmates because you seem "different", or being stigmatized as a "homo". Those kinds of acts are also choices people make. In fact they are real circumstances that have happened, and do happen, but if it were happening to you could you then "choose" to love someone else? Yes people are who they are. Violence, prejudice, hate, now those things are choices as well, as are tolerance, love, acceptance. What do you choose?
QuestionAlways
(259 posts)like Cheating. Fighting, Lying. We should not glorify such behavior as this commercial does.
0nirevets
(391 posts)Maybe just read a good book about love. I recommend Plato's Symposium for starters. The ancient Greeks had a lot of very beautiful, and very tragic love stories. Ever heard of Oedipus the King, who gouged out his own eyes? Just a suggestion, but maybe you'd feel better if you quit judging people. Ever lied to your wife, girlfriend, gay/lesbian lover? Ever lied to your child? It's okay, love is like that. We all do it. Even you. In fact if you tell me you have never lied for love, I'd say you're lying. But no worries, it just makes you human. I'm guessing you're a Christian, yes? What about "love" of your Christian god? People use that mythological name to justify all sorts of "anti-social" behavior. Is that okay with you?
QuestionAlways
(259 posts)I do not judge people and I am not a so called Christian. I have never lied for love because you are not being real with the person you are lying to, and that is not love. Love stories are nice, but they just prove romantic love is just a type of insanity,