Beer company in hot water for omitting mention of God while using quotes from Declaration of Independence. Turns out they were following the guidelines.

Courtesy of ABC News: 

In the ad, which has an Independence Day theme, an actor says, “All men are created equal, that they are endowed with certain unalienable rights: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” The Declaration of Independence states ”…that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” 

The ad has aired for about three weeks focusing on the July Fourth holiday, but the company is still receiving angry comments posted on its Facebook page. 

“I guess I should not be surprised that a company, interested only in profit, would rewrite American history for commercial gain,” wrote one Facebook user on Samuel Adams’ Facebook page. “However, abusers of history will no longer receive any of my money to support their censorsed [sic] advertising campaigns.” 

In a statement, the Boston Beer Company says it was just trying to follow a code implemented by the trade group, The Beer Institute, which is based in Washington, D.C., and represents 2,800 breweries. 

“We adhere to an advertising code, established by the Beer Institute – a beer industry trade organization - that states, ‘Beer advertising and marketing materials should not include religion or religious themes’,” according to a statement provided by a Boston Beer Company spokeswoman. “We agree with that, and we follow these guidelines and approach our marketing with the utmost responsibility.”

Yeah you know, believe it or not, SOME beer drinkers don't really want mentions of God during their beer commercials. Sort of takes the fun out of over imbibing don't ya know.

The company was following the advertising guidelines so fuck them for doing so, right?

I mean does anybody really think that the forefathers would give a rat's ass that a beer company chose only a part of the Declaration of Independence for their commercial? Hardly. After all how many times does a beer company even mention the document?

No the only people who would even notice something like this are the brittle, overly defensive idiots who think that religion should be inserted into every nook and cranny of our country. Which is NOT what the Founders intended.

Besides how much damage to beer sales do these idiots really think they can do by throwing a fit over this? After all their queen already told college students not to drink this beer.