Go Daddy loses church business due to Super Bowl ads

Danica Patrick appears in a Super Bowl ad for Go Daddy.

My local news reports a story about Go Daddy and its commercials during the Super Bowl. A few Christian churches pulled their accounts with Go Daddy because they found the commercials offensive.

"They found the ads offensive and immoral and degrading to women, and I agreed," [Brian] Harrell [chief executive officer of All Time Favorites Inc. in Eagan, Minn.] said. "They (the ads) pretty much crossed the line, at least for the Christian community."

That is their prerogative, one with which I happen to agree. The ads were tasteless and demeaning of women.

But that's an article for another day.

We have a very healthy anti-religious element in our city and they came out in force with the printing of this article. These anti-religion preachers seemingly have no end to their vitriolic verve when it comes to bashing religion. Their comments after this news article are just amazing. I've cataloged some of them here, which I hope you will find appropriately offensive. I've copied them directly without editing.

Let the churches leave. Think about it. On any given Sunday, which websites do you think gets more hits....thumbs up for porn sites, thumbs down for churches.

this is retarded.. the rest of the world has no problem with this stuff because its natural. only in america does stuff like this seem immoral and peolpe have to (inappropriate term) and moan about everything

Holy Krap, it sure doesn't take much to get some of these church leader's shorts in a bunch, does it?

Thank God you didn't say panties in a bunch. THat would have been deemed inappropriate by the backwards name and his ilk.

Oh boo hoo Christians. You have no problem being in favor of war, the death penalty, and trying to push your Christian agenda on the rest of us but you don't like busty women? They showed less then a 1979 re-run of Charlies Angels. Get over yourselves. We don't care.

Good...I am tired of you people knocking my door. Don't push your church on me...I like the ads and thought they we a good clean ad with wit and humor...

Just another Christian Organization "casting the first stone".

Who cares, Not Go-Daddy for sure, they probably picked up more new customers that love the commercials than they fools that quit. Most of the one that quit are probably closet gay druggies, perverts, and everything else they preach against and participate in regularly behind closed doors. Hypocrites all

Believers: what is the proof that your God exists? Tangible, quantifiable, verifiable proof? There are many who believe the Bible is a record of human contact with aliens, and one can cross reference modern "alien abduction" stories with some of the more "miraculous" Bible stories and draw similarities.

How about offensive Bible content. I'll start. Lot in a cave with his daughters.

I am sure Go Daddy brought in more new customers than they will lose from moralzing, sexually repressed church members. Maybe churches should spend more time policing their own pastors than trying this stupid stunt.

Some of the good Christian ladies were probably upset because their husbands steeples became erect!

Would Jesus have yanked his website from Go Daddy? I think not.

The discussion went downhill from there (29 pages worth as of this writing). I don't need to comment on this stuff. It speaks volumes about the morals of its writers. I'm actually impressed at how much hatred there is for religion in this country. Keep in mind, that all the news article reported was a few churches pulling their accounts from Go Daddy because they didn't agree with the advertising. And these are the type of comments that followed.

We've come a long way in this country toward civil rights. How about leaving free speech and the free exercise of religion intact? I don't have much hope that the anti-religionists in this country will be happy even if they could succeed in ridding the country of religion.

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