CNN Demands Gay GOP Group Edit Ad

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CNN Demands Gay GOP Group Edit Ad


CNN said Tuesday that it would agree to run an ad from the homosexual group Log Cabin Republicans during the Republican National Convention if it removes a photo at the end showing a Baptist minister outside the funeral of Matthew Shepard holding signs reading "God Hates Fags." A CNN spokesman told USA Today that the cable news network regarded the photo as "inappropriate." Shepard was the gay college student murdered in Wyoming in 1998. Following the photo, the words "Hope Not Fear" appear on the screen, concluding the spot. "That image is the whole point of the ad. There's no ad without it," Log Cabin Republicans' political director Christopher Barron said Tuesday. Fox News is running it during the convention, but MSNBC is not because one of the persons mentioned in it is Pat Buchanan, a paid commentator for the network.