Christian Coalition THRILLED with CBS fine re: "teenage orgy"

[Bluebear]

To: National Desk

Contact: Michele Combs, Director of Communication for the Christian Coalition, 202-479-6900, [e-mail]

WASHINGTON, March 16 /Christian Wire Service/ -- Christian Coalition of America commends the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Kevin Martin, for proposing a record $3.6 million fine against dozens of CBS stations and affiliates yesterday for indecency on television. The FCC said that a CBS program, "Without a Trace" which aired in December 2004 had graphic depictions of "teenage boys and girls participating in a sexual orgy". The FCC also rejected an appeal by CBS and upheld its previous fine of $550,000 against 20 of CBS' stations for Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" at the Super Bowl in 2004, causing hundreds of thousands of parents to protest to the FCC.

The President of the Christian Coalition of America, Roberta Combs, said, "Congress needs to give the FCC even greater weapons to go against out-of-control broadcasters such as CBS. I urge the Senate leadership to finally bring to the Senate floor for a vote, the "Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act" which passed overwhelmingly in the U.S. House of Representatives by a margin of 389-38 last April. There is no excuse for a delay in the Senate floor vote now that Senate hearings have been completed."

Mrs. Combs in her testimony on November 29th before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, chaired by Senator Ted Stevens, (R-AK), implored the U.S. Senate to pass the commonsense bill passed by the U. S. House of Representatives. Senator Sam Brownback's "Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act" will increase fines to $500,000 per violation of decency standards from the current level of $32,500 per violation. Christian Coalition urges the Senate to also adopt the provisions in the House bill, which will eventually lead to license revocation for repetitive violations of the decency standards.

http://www.earnedmedia.org/cc0316.htm

[aden_nak]

1. It's a good thing the CCA isn't investing their time to help the poor.

That's the kind of thing Christ might do.

[liberal N proud]

2. And another act of Christian oppression on display

[napi21]

3. Did any one here see that show?

My husband watches it all the time, and I just asked him if he can remember ANY episode that might fall into the catagory of a sex orgy? He thought about it for a while, then said NO!

I would really like to know what was in that show that was supposed to be so offensive.

[Danieljay]

6. For your viewing pleasure..the pictures that brought the fine, ready to be

pissed off and stunned? This is what gets you 3.6 million in fines. Indecency at its finest! Effing puritans!

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/03/15/entertainment/e142345S29.DTL

[oneighty]

4. And too

please no more depictions of a near naked man nailed to a cross of wood with blood dripping from various wounds.

Cruel and obscene-deserving of a large fine.

180

[sleipnir]

5. Fuck these fucking fucks.

They are anti-American and deserve to be brought up on trial as traitors to the Constitution. I'm sick of their "moral" posturing to help establish a dictatorial system of control. I've about had it with peacefully dealing with these impudent (yes, impudent) idiots.

[graywarrior]

7. They should find their God for creating breasts in the first place.

[Kansas Wyatt]

8. Anyone these religious wackos go after should put an

Undercover investigative reporter into their organization, just to see what crimes and hypocrisy they can dig up on the almighty righteous Christians. Then air it for all of America to see just how these nutjobs operate.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

9. Whenever you point your finger at another.... you have three

fingers pointing back at yourself....

http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_dira.htm

Recent study by the Barna Research Group throws extreme doubt on these estimates. Barna released the results of their poll about divorce on 1999-DEC-21. 1 They had interviewed 3,854 adults from the 48 contiguous states. The margin of error is within 2 percentage points. The survey found:
* 11% of the adult population is currently divorced.
* 25% of adults have had at least one divorce during their lifetime.
* Divorce rates among conservative Christians were significently higher than for other faith groups, and for Atheists and Agnostics.

George Barna, president and founder of Barna Research Group, commented: "While it may be alarming to discover that born again Christians are more likely than others to experience a divorce, that pattern has been in place for quite some time. Even more disturbing, perhaps, is that when those individuals experience a divorce many of them feel their community of faith provides rejection rather than support and healing. But the research also raises questions regarding the effectiveness of how churches minister to families. The ultimate responsibility for a marriage belongs to the husband and wife, but the high incidence of divorce within the Christian community challenges the idea that churches provide truly practical and life-changing support for marriages."

[chaplainM]

10. What kind of world is this?

You'll remember that the Super Bowl broadcast that CBS is being fined for was the same one in which CBS refused to air a Moveon.org ad criticising the Bush deficit.

It's a sad day when you can't expect leniency even from a president whose critics you've helped muzzle.