Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 7:17 pm Post subject: TV Stations Bans
American Family Association Action Alert
February 13, 2009 - Please help us get this information into the hands of as many people as possible by sending it to your entire e-mail list of family and friends.
TV Stations Ban 'Speechless...Silencing the Christians' Stations bow to pressure from handful of homosexual activists
Two TV stations, WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids, MI and WSYX-TV in Columbus, OH, have banned a television special showing how the media is silencing Christians. The stations bowed down to the demands of a handful of homosexual activists and banned the showing of the TV special "Speechless...Silencing the Christians." The one-hour TV special was scheduled to be shown on the stations, but the stations yanked the program after agreeing to run it. AFA was paying for the time.
Oddly enough, the TV special shows how the media censors Christians, which is exactly what these two stations did!
They said the program was "controversial." The stations do not consider showing two lesbians or two homosexuals kissing or getting into bed with each other controversial. The stations do not consider all the profanity they air controversial. They regularly show network programs advocating the homosexual agenda, but those programs are not considered controversial. However, a special showing of Christians being silenced is controversial!
The manager of the Columbus station told AFA the station would not air the program because telling the truth about homosexuality did not represent "positive Christianity." Are we moving to a time in the near future when local pastors whose services are broadcast will be banned because their sermons call the practice of homosexuality a sin?Please send this critical message to your family and friends today!
PBS, citing what it says is a rule that has been on the books for 25 years, has issued a ban on new religious programs to local affiliates.
This edict means no new religious programs — like weekly Mass or devotional readings — will be aired. Six PBS affiliate stations that currently carry religious programming will be allowed to continue doing so.
Religious groups defended the programming as a community service that reflects the makeup and interests of the cities that offer them.
"This is community-based, locally produced programming that fills a community need," said Susan Briggs, director of communications for the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington.
Wick Rowland, president and CEO of KBDI in Denver, agreed. His station has aired a weekly Mass for several years.
"KBDI is a very eclectic television station with a huge diversity of programming with all sorts of political and social opinions," Rowland told FOXNews.com. "No one would mistake us for Catholic television station."
Atheist groups such as Americans United for Separation of Church and State applaud the decision.
-- Josh Montez
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