The American Decency Association (ADA) has blasted CKE Restaurants, the corporation that owns Hardee's and Carl's Jr. fast food chains, for what the religious right group is calling a "noticeable history of sexual imagery" in its advertisements.
ADA President Bill Johnson told conservative news organization OneNewsNow that he sees the latest Hardee's ad as "erotic…[it features] a young man that is just really looking, gazing at her 'parts' and …she's being accentuated in a very pornographic or indecent way."
Johnson and his pro-family group have taken issue with CKE in the past over ads featuring Playboy founder Hugh Hefner and Paris Hilton.
"The pattern for the Carl's Jr./Hardees restaurants," Johnson told OneNewsNow, "has been one of very over-the-edge ads."
Johnson said he and the ADA have been imploring CKE CEO Andrew Puzder to stop the company's risque marketing campaigns.
