Okay, so being in Costa Rica, I'm kinda behind on some of the media and such back home. Here at the villa we got to watch the Super Bowl but didn't get to see any ads. However, from what I'm seeing on Facebook and various social media I'm thinking I didn't miss much. I saw the most about an ad that Coke came out with, so to be better informed, I decided to watch it on Youtube. At first I loved the little girls singing America the Beautiful, and the imagery of various people was stimulating. In fact up until a certain point I didn't see what the problem was. I found the music and imagery, on an artistic level, to be quite lovely. Some of the activities shown were things that I've done with my family growing up, it was rather heartwarming. I really don't see how people can possibly be offended by the different races and cultures represented due to the fact that we are all immigrants deep in our roots. My close blood line is not from a different country, but I do have friends who's families are, so I understand how beautiful those cultures are. As a millennial, I happen to love diversity in the sense that we are all from different backgrounds and made differently. However, the heartwarming feelings started to stop once I noticed some things that were slipped in that my diversity loving self could not appreciate because it got in the way of my Biblical world view. (That is actually the only time I would actually dislike something) It starts off beautiful, a cowboy on his horse in the mountains, a family in a movie theater, a family going on a vacation to what looks like Arizona or the Grand Canyon, some kids on the street break dancing, (just go watch it). Then you see three different sets of homosexual male couples throughout the rest of the video. Not one, but three. Do you think the LGBT got their point across? Yes, America is beautiful. Yes, America is diverse. However, as we see in scripture (and in history) any nation as a whole that accepts homosexuality as okay slowly but surely crumbles. This post is not about that though, so I'll save the Bible thumping for another time. I do want to address the people who would call me a "bigot" and "racist" for disliking it. For starters, I am not a bigot. I have homosexual friends, they're sweet friendly people. I'm not a racist because I love the different people groups shown in the commercial. I disliked the flagrant homosexuality and homosexuals are not a race. So like I said, as far as Christians are concerned the only thing to actually dislike is the homosexuality proudly promoted in the video. So yeah, that's all I got ;)
Allysa
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