Friday, February 03, 2006
Got Religion?
Michelle Malkin notes that the media has a new found respect for religion:
"CNN has chosen to not show the cartoons in respect for Islam."More from MRC:
Where was that deference when Ted Turner was calling Catholics "Jesus Freaks?"
Where was the sensitivity about offensive religious imagery when Jeanne Moos was mocking images of Jesus Christ or Jonathan Mann was reporting on the Virgin Mary covered in dung?
Why is it that American media, including CNN, have absolutely no qualms about splashing Kanye West-as-Christ all over the airwaves and Internet...
[NBC] showed no respect for Christians when it forged ahead with the religion-mocking show, "The Book of Daniel."
This from the network that plans to feature Britney Spears as the host of a fictional cooking segment called "Cruci-fixin's" in an upcoming "Will & Grace" epsiode.
Meanwhile, no one seems to care that I'm offended by this movie.
It was a surprise to NBC in 1992 when "Saturday Night Live" aired pop star Sinead O’Connor ripping up a picture of Pope John Paul II and crying "Fight the real enemy!" But now NBC has aired a planned, scripted episode of a sitcom that attacks not the Pope, but Jesus Christ Himself.
The February 22 episode of the painfully unfunny new sitcom "Committed" made a mockery out of the sacrament of the Eucharist. As William Donohue of the Catholic League explained about the show: "By far the most offensive scene occurs when [male characters] Nate and Bowie accidentally flush what they think is the Host down the toilet...To say that Catholics are angry about this show would be an understatement — the outrage is visceral and intense."
NBC has encouraged the producers of "Committed" to "push the limits of comedy," and the producers just pushed comedy off a cliff. Not just Catholics, not just Christians, but anyone who reveres God should be outraged.
