Indiana TV Station Takes a stand against “Bigotry”

WTWO, an Indiana NBC affiliate, has announced that it will not air a new series called “The Book of Daniel” because it features a walk-on role for Jesus:

The show, starring Aidan Quinn as an Episcopal priest who regularly converses with a physical Jesus Christ, has drawn fire from conservative Christians, including the Tupelo, Miss.-based American Family Association.

Duane Lammers, WTWO’s general manager, said in a statement Wednesday that he was exercising the station’s right to reject network programming.

“I will not allow them to make unilateral decisions affecting our viewers,” he said. “If my action causes people in our community to pay more attention to what they watch on television, I have accomplished my mission.”

The American Family Association has urged viewers to complain to NBC about the series, which the group’s chairman, Donald E. Wildmon, called “anti-Christian bigotry.”

Link (News Sentinel)

I think it is funny that the success of the civil rights movement in this country has made the being a victim such a powerful possition that the dominant force in American society (the Christian Right) regularly portrays themselves as such. “Bigotry?” Maybe ”blasphemy” would have been a better word to use.

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