Michigan Television Station Pulls Misleading AFA Program ...

[meegbear]

Following Announcement of National Action Alert By Human Rights Campaign

The Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization, today issued a national action alert against the American Family Association's (AFA) one-hour television special called "Speechless: Silencing Christians," which is promoted to "reveal the truth about the radical homosexual agenda and its impact on the family, the nation and religious freedom." Within an hour of that action alert announcement, the Grand Rapids, MI station which had planned to air the deceptive programming rescinded that offer.

WOOD-TV General Manager Diane Kniowski posted the following announcement just before 4 p.m. saying it would not run the AFA paid 60-minute program on Saturday as planned:

"We made a gesture of the 2-3 p.m. Saturday time period. It's been 24 hours and we had no response," Kniowski said. "Our station is being bombarded with calls and messages, and we find ourselves in the middle of someone else's fight. Ours was a fair offer and we are removing ourselves from this matter."

The HRC alert urged members to contact the station and ask that they pull the scheduled program and instead air a fair discussion or debate on both the issues and pending legislation.

"I am so proud of our members who answered the lies and distortions of the AFA and stopped this campaign of hate and deception," said Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese. "Our community stood up and would not let those lies stand."

"This should be our wake up call. We are poised to make real progress, for the first time, for millions of LGBT Americans. We know it and so do our opponents," added Solmonese. "We must stand guard and not allow them to stop these overdue, basic protections by rolling out the same, tired script albeit in new packaging. Today's action proves we have the voices and the power to demand a fair fight and a fair debate."

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http://www.hrc.org/12122.htm

[murielm99]

1. K&R!

Good for them.

:kick:

[Bluenorthwest]

2. I think I will send them a thanks

for making the right choice.

[SacredCow]

3. This kind of biased crap is very dangerous....

but they don't want to participate in an actual debate about the issue because once all of the holes in the lies are revealed....

I'd probably regret it, but I'd kind of like to see the crap-fest. Call it morbid curiosity. Is it available online?

[tbyg52]

4. K&R - one more to the Greatest! (And this *is* great!) nt