Advertising adultery
What’s that line in the Bible about those who lead others to sin would be better off not having been born or ought to have a millstone tied around their neck and be thrown into the sea? Whatever it is, what this company is doing is just blatantly wrong. I’d hate to be them when it’s their turn to die and meet their maker.
In the middle of the Tiger Woods infidelity furore a website that sells adultery (“an affair to remember” in three months or your $249 back) has been trying to get a Toronto public transport company to run ads on its street cars urging: Life is short. Have an affair.”
What is worse, reading a Globe and Mail report carefully it seems that the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), which runs the trams, was on the verge of accepting the AshleyMadison ads when emails from the public started pouring in. City councillor Suzan Hall says, “There hasn’t been a single person emailing in to say they’re in support of this.”
AshleyMadison, a Toronto-based company, boasts five million members and its boss Noel Biderman claims that people are tolerant of affairs these days. Oh yes? That is not what Tiger Woods’ erstwhile sponsors seem to think. Nor what caused other adultery ads sold by the company to be taken down at the Super Bowl and in Times Square New York.
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