I think for most of us outside the US who aren't aware of the denomination and the politics involved, there would be few reasons we'd have a problem with it.
If I posted an ad from a unique Canadian, UK or Australian denomination, I don't know how people outside those countries would respond.

When you take the political baggage away, it's made for some interesting discussion. Blog on!

Hi Bene,

I don't think it's a uniquely American thing or a political thing to find the ad dishonest. The problem with the ad is that it implies that there are people being blocked from churches because of their race or for being handicapped. That is simply not true.

Second of all, it equates homosexuality with race or handicap, which is also dishonest.

Finally, it implies that those churches that believe that homosexual behavior is a sin (which would be any orthodox Christian church) would also exclude gay people from coming to their churches. Gay people shouldn't be excluded anymore than the unmarried heterosexual couple who is living together, the adulterer, the glutton, the liar, etc.

However, the church is doing a disservice to any sinner (which is all of us) if it simply makes people feel comfortable in their sin, rather challenging them to be better people.