“The beautiful family on that poster is all for Marriage Equality.”
Well-known Australian comedian and TV presenter Adam Hills has claimed that a couple featured on a poster urging a ‘No’ vote in the upcoming marriage referendum are “appalled” that their faces are being used to promote something they wholeheartedly disagree with.
In a Facebook post last night, Hills said that the man and the woman in the photograph used in the poster are friends of his wife and that the image used is a stock photo that neither party were aware was being used on a poster canvassing support for a No vote.
So, there is a Marriage Equality vote in Ireland at the moment, and it has all got pretty heated. Posters like these…
Posted by Adam Hills Official Page on Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Hills shared a photo that was originally posted on Facebook by fellow comedian Jason Manford at the weekend and made headlines due to Manford’s unequivocal opposition to the message it portrayed.
The person who designed this poster had a mother and a father and look how much of an ignorant prick they turned out to be!#voteyesireland#childrendeservelove
Posted by Jason Manford on Sunday, May 3, 2015
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