Times Square Church Ends Fight Over Bare Bottoms Billboard

NEW YORK-A toilet company that had planned to put up a billboard depicting naked backsides on the side of a church has apparently turned the other cheek.In an announcement on Monday, the pastor of the Times Square Church in Manhattan and representatives from the Toto toilet-maker explained that they had reached a settlement over the billboard.The ad will now keep its place on the outside of the megachurch, but company heads have agreed to cover the naked buttocks with a white band that runs the length of the advertisement."This is our bottom line,"will be placed along the blank space."Clean is happy.No ifs,ands,or ..."The Toto company had planned on putting a giant billboard promoting their Washlet-a bidet toilet that cleans a person’s rear-end via water and warm air-by showing exposed bottoms with smiley faces on them.The racy ad would be placed on the same building as the Times Square Church.The pastor of the 8,000-member church,Pastor Neil Rhodes,objected to the ad,however,explaining that it would not be good for congregants to look at nudity as they go to church."You walk into a church building, you have naked bodies before your eyes-how are you going to close your eyes and seek God?"asked Rhodes in the New York Post."It's wrong as far as we're concerned."The megachurch pastor filed a lawsuit in early July to completely bar the billboard from going up,and the judge
temporarily stopped the poster-which wraps around the whole building-from erecting until a decision could be made.The recent settlement was a compromise between the two parties,
covering the bare bottoms while still running the advertisement."Our thought-provoking billboard was not intended to offend,"said Toto representatives in a statement.The company still plans on running the uncensored version of the campaign on their website and Los Angeles billboards.
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