The Advertising Standards Authority has responded to claims by a religious blogger that correspondence it sent him requesting he comply with an investigation into a amounted to ‘persecution'.
The blogger refers to himself in the third person and adopts the pseudonym Archbishop Cranmer, occasionally taking on the identity of the 16th century cleric to comment on current affairs.
The ASA is investigating an advert by the Coalition for Marriage which complainants believe was offensive, homophobic or misleading. The Cranmer blog, among others, ran the advert online.
The advert showed pictures of couples on their wedding days, the words “I do”, the statement “70% of people say keep marriage as it is (Source: ComRes poll for Catholic Voices)”, and the words “Please sign the petition”, with a link to the Coalition for Marriage website.
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