Church moves to block naked billboard
A New York state judge issued a temporary restraining order preventing a billboard featuring naked human backsides from going up in New York's Times Square.
Justice Marcy Friedman of State Supreme Court said she is delaying the installation of the billboard, which features human backsides painted with smiley faces to advertise the Washlet, a toilet and bidet sold by Toto, until she had had time to consider the novel and significant
legal issues raised by a challenge filed by the Times Square Church, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
The church claims in its legal challenge that two-story billboard, which is planned to go up on the Novotel building at 51st Street and Broadway, is indecent.
The Times Square Church, a tenant of the Novotel building, said in its suit that the advertisement is certainly unsuited for public exposure to children and antithetical to the values of our congregation and church.
The church's associate pastor, the Rev. Neil Rhodes, said in the complaint that having naked human rears wrapped around the building that houses the church would degrade it in the eyes of its congregation.
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