Wankery?

[Flabbergasted]

http://www.preemptivekarma.com/archives/2006/04/wankery.html

April 06, 2006

Wankery

The always good Chuck Currie makes note of this disturbing tidbit from the conservative crap that passes for media in the US:

What a weird world we live in. ABC will run advertisements for the Religious Right political group Focus on the Family – whose founder has made defeating democrats a primary task of his organization – but the network and others (now including some NBC-owned cable stations) will not air a television spot promoting the United Church of Christ. ABC says they won’t air religious commercials but the hypocrisy is apparent whenever they have aired Focus on the Family spots. NBC won’t air the UCC spots because our denomination promotes a message that God doesn’t turn anyone away. For the peacock network – a media conglomerate owned by General Electric – the Gospel message of extravagant welcome is one that should be silenced. General Electric, which gives millions of dollars to conservative political campaigns, clearly has a stake in silencing any prophetic message that challenges society to follow Jesus’ ministry – a ministry that spoke of tolerance, love, justice, and God’s gift of grace. Those are not always corporate values. Will the effort on the part of the media corporations to silence the voice of the United Church of Christ work? No. God is still speaking. Even GE isn’t powerful enough to keep that voice quiet.
Apologies to Chuck for excerpting his entire post..but its just too well done to cut up.

(If I ran into more Christians like Chuck, I'd never have left the religion in the first place.)

There is no justification for this kind of blatant disregard for the public airwaves. The networks should not have the ability to censor out one set of religious/political views while openly allowing another.

You can contact the national office for ABC here:

ABC, Inc.
500 S. Buena Vista Street
Burbank, CA 91521-4551

[phone] (a toll call)


Hey, Anyone interested in arranging a boycott of GE?