Will NBC Have the Grace to Bow Out and Avoid More Controversy?

Will NBC Have the Grace to Bow Out and Avoid More Controversy?Wildmon Sees Clear 'Anti-Christian' Agenda Following Daniel's Demise(AgapePress) - The founder of a prominent pro-family group is convinced that NBC is trying to mock Christians. As evidence he cites an upcoming episode of a popular sitcom, announced just days after the network's cancellation of a controversial series that was panned by Christian groups across the nation.Recently NBC announced it was pulling the plug on The Book of Daniel after protests from pro-family forces led to a sharp drop in advertisers for the show. Now the network has made known its intention to air an upcoming episode of Will & Grace that will feature pop star Britney Spears as a Christian conservative sidekick to homosexual character Jack, played by actor Sean Hayes, who has his own talk show on the mythical "Out TV" cable channel. In the episode Jack's network is bought out by a Christian network, which leads to Spears appearing in a cooking segment called "Cruci-fixins."Don Wildmon is founder and chairman of the American Family Association, one of the major players in guiding complaints about Daniel to NBC. Wildmon says NBC's agenda is clear. "NBC is clearly mocking the Christian faith," says Wildmon. "They clearly have hostility toward the Christian faith. They absolutely will not treat Jews or Muslims in this manner, but I think they are smarting from the Book of Daniel defeat that they suffered, and this is their way to get even."The AFA founder calls the Spears episode a "childish and immature response" by the network to being forced to cancel The Book of Daniel. The decision to mock Christ's crucifixion, opines Wildmon, is "an angry, knee-jerk reaction" by NBC that exposes its "deep-seated anti-Christian bias."Will & Grace is slated to go off the air after this season. Regardless, Wildmon encourages Christians to contact their local NBC affiliates and also take part in an online petition drive, found on the AFA website, to network officials."There's information steps and links [on the website] that people can take," he explains. "One thing they can do is to call their [local] NBC affiliate and complain, in a nice way, and ask them that they not air this episode of Will and Grace." The episode is set to air on April -- the night before Good Friday.In a recent press release, AFA contends NBC has been "bombarded" with phone calls from its affiliates about the program while at the same time being pressured by the show's producers to keep the segment -- thereby putting the network between the proverbial rock and a hard place."If they don't drop the segment, the network stand to lose millions of dollars in advertising revenue and have the episode dropped by about 40 percent of their affiliates," says the pro-family leader. "But if they do drop the segment, it puts them at odds with the producers and Hollywood for bowing to pressure from what they say is a tiny number of right-wing fundamentalists."He asserts it places the network in a bit of a quandary. "Do they offend Christians -- or do they offend Hollywood?" he asks.Wildmon, who says he is basing his views on feedback that AFA supporters are receiving from NBC affiliates, is predicting the network will yank the segment because "they don't want to suffer another defeat as they did with The Book of Daniel."SOURCE

Victory! NBC pulls offensive segment!Network issues misleading statement concerning their actions Action by AFA Online supporters has cause NBC to pull the offensive segment scheduled for the April 6th episode of Will and Grace. In an attempt to confuse the public, the network issued an intentionally misleading statement which left the impression that AFA had lied to our supporters. Here is the statement NBC sent to their affiliates for the affiliate to use in responding to emails and calls: Some erroneous information was mistakenly included in a press release describing an upcoming episode of "Will & Grace" which, in fact, has yet to be written. The reference to "Cruci-fxins" will not be in the show and the storyline will not contain a Christian characterization at all.NBC did not say that they (NBC) had issued the "erroneous information" but left the reader with the impression that AFA had issued the "erroneous information." When NBC said that the script "has yet to be written," what they didn't tell you is that the "story board" had been completed and the offensive material was scheduled to be a part of the episode. The story board contains the outline of the program. That is the reason for the detailed description of the episode issued by NBC in their initial press release. For a better understanding of this deception by NBC written by a third party, click here. The bottom line is that the actions taken by AFA Online supporters like you caused them to rewrite the episode and remove the offensive segment! Thanks for caring enough to get involved. If you think our efforts are worthy, would you consider making a small donation to help us continue. Please click here. Sincerely, DonDonald E. Wildmon, Founder and ChairmanAmerican Family AssociationP.S. Please forward this e-mail message to your family and friends

This attack on Christianity is simillar to what is going on in Europe.Muslim cartoon fury claims lives The Danish embassy in Tehran was the scene of angry protests At least five people have been killed in Afghanistan as protests against European cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad swept across the country. Two people died when protesters turned on the US airbase at Bagram - although the US has had no involvement with the images, which originated in Denmark. Meanwhile in Somalia, a teenage boy died after protesters attacked police. Iran announced it was halting trade with Denmark, as protesters pelted the Danish embassy with petrol bombs. Police fired tear gas in a bid to keep back hundreds of angry demonstrators, some of whom attempted to scale the wall into the embassy compound. Earlier, the Austrian embassy in Tehran came under attack. The violence follows attacks on Danish embassies in Syria and Lebanon over the weekend. The cartoons were first published in a Danish newspaper. Tensions continue to escalate around the world: Norway demands compensation from Syria after its embassy in Damascus was set on fire on Saturday Some 200 protesters took to the streets in the Afghan capital KabulThe Turkish and Spanish prime ministers make a joint plea for respect and calm in an article in the International Herald Tribune In Indonesia, protesters target the Danish and US consulates in Surabaya, the country's second largest city. Protests are also held in the capital, Jakarta Riot police in the Indian capital, Delhi, fire tear gas and water cannons to disperse hundreds of student protesters Shops and businesses across Indian-administered Kashmir close after a general strike is called in protest at the drawings In Thailand, protesters shout "God is great" and stamp on Denmark's flag outside the country's embassy in Bangkok, the Associated Press news agency reports There are protests again outside the European Union offices in Gaza, following demonstrations there last week. 'Test our feelings' Hundreds of people took part in the morning demonstration in Afghanistan's Laghman province, in a second day of protests in the city. Three people died when police fired on protesters after a police station came under attack, a government spokesman said. Demonstrators shouted "death to Denmark" and "death to France". They called for the expulsion of diplomats and soldiers, who were sent by both countries as part of international efforts in the US-led "war on terror". "They want to test our feelings," protester Mawli Abdul Qahar Abu Israra told the BBC. "They want to know whether Muslims are extremists or not. Death to them and to their newspapers," he said. In Bagram district, a peaceful protest in the morning turned violent when around 300 "bandits and gangsters" tried to enter the US base, local police chief Mawlana Sayed Khel told the BBC. A shoot-out with police left two protesters dead, and six police officers injured, he said. Elsewhere, hundreds protested in Kandahar, Mazar-e-Sharif and the north-eastern province of Takhar. Some 200 demonstrators gathered outside the Danish embassy in the capital, Kabul. Afghan President Hamid Karzai reiterated his condemnation of the cartoons and called on western nations to take "a strong measure" to ensure such cartoons do not appear again. "It's not good for anybody," he told CNN. 'Defending freedoms' In the autonomous Somali region of Puntland, demonstrators marched through the port city of Bosaso, shouting anti-Western slogans and converging on the UN and international aid agency buildings. A 14-year-old boy was reportedly trampled underfoot as police fired into the air to try and disperse an increasingly angry crowd. Peaceful protests were held in several other Somali towns. The cartoons first appeared in a Danish newspaper in September and caused outrage among Muslims, who consider any images of Muhammad offensive. One of the cartoons shows Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban. Newspapers across Europe republished the pictures last week, saying they were defending freedom of expression. (End of Article)All over the world the Humanists are attacking religion. Do you see where we are going?In ChristJeff