America Doesn’t Need the Ray Comfort Press Release

Posted on 17. Jun, 2009 by Eric Broze in Rants

It looks like Ray Comfort is trying to get between everyone and their Calvins, while bashing both CBS and ABC for covering the story. Old Comfy put out a press release stating his disdain for sexually provocative advertising.

NEW YORK, June 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Calvin Klein has placed a new advertisement on a five-story billboard on a building in New York City, which shows half-naked teenagers lying on top of each other in sexually explicit positions.

“Calvin Klein not only reveals that it doesn’t care about the abuse of our women and children, they also show that they have no regard for what God says is right and wrong,” TV co-host and bestselling author Ray Comfort said.

According to Comfort, sex not only sells jeans, it gets massive free publicity on CBS. This week, The Early Show panned and zoomed in on the offensive billboard an amazing sixteen times, as the show’s host interviewed an expert on why she thought it was wrong to show such images in public. Ironically, the expert said that it wasn’t good for children to see such pictures.

He then goes on on a tirade about child abductions….

Comfort says that there is another reason why Calvin Klein should rethink the tone of its advertising. Presently there are 673,989 registered sex offenders in the United States [1] and hardly a day goes by when a child isn’t abducted, raped, or murdered.

Way to go, Ray. By that, I mean, way to  to twist the story and scare people over an ad for jeans. But wait, this ego-maniac then has to make it all about him. The press release continues…

This isn’t the first time Comfort has spoken out against sexually explicit advertising. In April of 1999, ABC TV put up a racy billboard of a naked woman lying on her stomach in Comfort’s neighborhood in Southern California. The image had a small towel draped across her backside, in order to keep it legal. In response, Comfort purchased an 18-foot ladder, climbed up the billboard and stapled a huge orange blanket over the picture of the naked woman’s body.

So, 10 years ago Ray  committed vandalism, cause he did not like a billboard?  What’s next?

“I didn’t want some sexually depraved pervert getting off on ABC’s dirt, and raping and murdering my wife or daughter,” Comfort said.

Um… Ray, If the pervert got off  on ABC’s programming, raping your family is not necessary. Then again, Ray is not known for thinking clearly.

Comfort then took a picture of the blanketed billboard and released it to the media, in the hope that ABC would take him to court for willful damage of their property. But they didn’t.

Fail. I cannot believe he was not prosecuted. C’mon [local police name here].

Comfort now has a message for Calvin Klein: “Don’t even think of bringing your dirt and dumping it in my neighborhood, because I will be up my ladder with a staple gun in hand before the glue on your smutty image is dry.”

I would like to see Ray try it on the 5 story image in New York. NYPD does not take to kindly to people attacking buildings.

Ray Comfort has debated atheistic evolution on ABC’s Nightline in 2007 and on the BBC earlier this year. He is the author of more than 60 books including “God Doesn’t Believe in Atheists,” “How to Know God Exists,” and “Evolution: the Fairy Tale for Grownups.” He is the publisher of “The Evidence Bible” and more recently, “The Atheist Bible (Unauthorized Version)” and, “The Charles Darwin Bible.” His booklet, “The Atheist Test” has sold over a million copies.

To be honest, “The Atheist Test” is sold in bulk. 100 copies for 12 bucks and handed out for free. Not really a best seller.

To interview Ray Comfort contact: M. Sliwa Public Relations, 973-272-2861, media@msliwa.com

U.S. Map of sex offenders: [1] http://cybertipline.com/en_US/documents/sex-offender-map.pdf

To end the press release, a scary link to sex offenders. Ray in not a class act.

I ran into a class from Ray’s ambassador alliance. Read about it here.

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