Surfing the news yesterday, I found this sort of amusing: Alongside a Reuters story headlined, “Homosexuality destabilizes society: Vatican paper” there ran a Flash ad for Intel Centrino, the visual grabber of which was a woman sitting on the lap of another woman, who was gazing up at the first woman sorta longingly.

(Click on the ad, and you’re taken to a microsite, the theme of which is “Entertainment in your lap.” Alrighty, then.)

The lead graph of the story read: “The Vatican newspaper said on Tuesday that homosexuality risked ‘destabilizing people and society’, had no social or moral value and could never match the importance of the relationship between a man and a woman.”

“No social or moral value.” Hmmm. No word in the article one way or the other about advertising or marketing value.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 30th, 2005 at 6:07 am and is filed under Marketing Stuff.