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Banned in the U.S.A.
11 March 2005
The French Catholic Church has succeeded in having a fashion company's ad posters, featuring a group of models posing in a Last Supper tableau, banned for its "'gratuitous and aggressive act of intrusion on people's innermost beliefs.'" The posters were also banned last month in Milan. In the world of less shallow, here's another banned advertisement -- this one barred from American network and cable TV -- that presumably would have intruded upon Americans' sacrosanct right to see the world as they believe it to be.

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