Billboard company Lamar Advertising has rejected a series of ads from Georgia Equality, an LGBT rights group, that were scheduled to appear this fall in rural parts of the state.

The campaign, called "We Are Your Neighbors," features gay men and lesbians in various professions. A gay firefighter, for example, is captioned "I protect you, and I am gay. We are your neighbors." A lesbian doctor is similarly titled "I care for you, and I am a lesbian."

The first phase of the campaign has been running in the Atlanta area on billboards owned by Clear Channel. But the second phase, anticipated to begin in September or October, is planned for 38 rural counties. Lamar Advertising is by far the largest billboard operator in these areas, although Georgia Equality is trying to find alternatives.

Based in New Orleans, Lamar Advertising owns 149,000 billboards. The subordinate in charge of the region is James Locke, general manager for South Georgia, who gave no reason for rejecting the ads. However, Georgia Equality reports, Locke told a reporter that the problem lay in the language of the billboards
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I wonder which words were offensive to community standards?

Can someone please identify for me how a company could approve Hooters illboards (and Lamar has those in Southern Georgia) and refuse the one's described above?

Poor Savannah...struggling to emerge as an artistic and cultural center and apparently it's nestled in the midst of the forest of fear.