Banned Video: Speechless… Silencing the Christians
Filed under News, Sexuality & Gender on February 14th, 2009 by M. FrenchA TV program about censoring Christians has been, of all things, censored. According to an email from the AFA:
Two TV stations, WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids, MI and WSYX-TV in Columbus, OH, have banned a television special showing how the media is silencing Christians. The stations bowed down to the demands of a handful of homosexual activists and banned the showing of our TV special “Speechless…Silencing the Christians.” The one-hour TV special was scheduled to be shown on the stations, but the stations yanked the program after agreeing to run it. AFA was paying for the time.
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Oddly enough, the TV special shows how the media censors Christians, which is exactly what these two stations did!
They said the program was “controversial.” The stations do not consider showing two lesbians or two homosexuals kissing or getting into bed with each other controversial. The stations do not consider all the profanity they air controversial. They regularly show network programs advocating the homosexual agenda, but those programs are not considered controversial. However, a special showing of Christians being silenced is controversial!
The manager of the Columbus station told AFA the station would not air the program because telling the truth about homosexuality did not represent “positive Christianity.” Are we moving to a time in the near future when local pastors whose services are broadcast will be banned because their sermons call the practice of homosexuality a sin?
Below is the one-hour program in question: [Link To Video]
Is the video really too controversial? Or is this an example of the exact point the video was trying to make? Feel free to weigh in and share your thoughts.
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Thanks for the video Michael. I haven’t seen “Speechless” but I have seen the AFA production “THEY’RE COMING TO YOUR TOWN”. That production was dishonest propaganda that purported a grand conspiracy on the part a “homosexual agenda”. The vignettes instead described small political conflicts between local GLBT people and a grand conspiracy on the part of a Christianist agenda.
When religious organizations try to impose their purity laws on diverse populations that comprise a democratic society, there will be conflicts. The burden will be on the purists do demonstrate why they shoud receive special rights. The AFA understands this and their salesmanship has become more sophisticated but apparently not sophisticated enough to convince WOOD-TV that “Speechless” is a reputable documentary. A good refutation of the arguments that one would expect from “Speechless” can be found at EqualityLoudoun.
Jonathan,
So keeping marriage between male and female, as it has been throughout history, is a “special right”? What then is changing the very definition of marriage to include same-sex relationships? The status-quo? As I said in this article:
Now really… who is asking for the “special rights”?
Marcus,
Tradition is never a justification for hurting your brothers and sisters. Proponents of all manner of injustice resort to tradition. There was a good article in the Washington Post on FGM that you may want to find and read. This barbaric practice perpetuates because of tradition.
The final word of my comment is a hyperlink to an EqualityLoudoun article. If you read that article (written by my husband btw ;-) ), you’ll see that your first response was a bit off-topic.
I believe the main problem in our modern viewpoint is that our ‘standard’ has been reduced to a personal preference. When there is no absolute, everyone is left to their own feelings on any issue. The Bible was given to us by God to keep us from veering off from the truth and falling headlong into destruction. God hates sin and He commands us to do the same! Sin has become an outdated and neglected word in our churches and in society in general. God’s view has not changed! It does not matter what we think as we are imperfect, flawed creatures who need a living God to help us to be delivered from ourselves and our tendency to destruction. Without the knowledge of God’s wisdom contained in the Bible, we are destined to an eternity of torment and hell. Where there is no fear of God, all manner of evil is allowed to flourish, which is our present state of affairs in the world. THERE IS HOPE! Return to our Father who art in heaven, and all will be forgiven through Jesus Christ, who opened the way to the Father so that we can live an eternity where we were born to be………heaven!
Beware of those who call evil good, and good evil.
This video should not be silenced because it speaks the truth.
Evil wants the right to proclaim and boast of is darkness.
But evil does not want the light to shine or make itself known, while he is doing it.
Darkness has to try and overcome the light, but it will never happen.
It has already been separated by El Elyon most high God in the beginning.
According to the end of the story God wins.
El Elyon and his son win the battle in the end. There is no contest with Yah.
Lucifer’s destruction of the scriptures, is due to convictions, that he nor his followers want to hear.
God has separated evil from good through the scriptures and they can’t stand it.
Word of Yahwey separates the light from the darkness, and the darkness can not allow
it self to comprehend it. That is why Lucifer and his people are in the state they are in now.
He can not defeat the God that created him, he just thinks he can. Intelligent fellow ?
Lucifer’s thoughts are busy with illusions of grandeur. He is a legend in his own mind.
Worse of all, he and his demons are real and running to and fro tormenting humans.
They are also very hard workers and persistent too. If one fails to get at you, another one will try. They work on humanity any way they can and are dirty fighters.
Better grab your swords Christians because you are about to have a fight to the death.
Look for evil where you least expect it.
Many are coming in the name of Jesus too. These preachers are wolf’s in sheep’s clothing.
It is all written in the WORD OF YAHWHEY.
There is nothing new under the sun and all is vanity.
We are all given the personal chance to repent out of the darkness, and come to the light.
To be born again is to become a new human being, in good deeds and thoughts.
Renewing our relationship with our creator and his son. Living in the power of God.
We will win in the end if Gods people will stand and not give up.
This is not a new battle we are fighting, but an old one that has never ended.
The dark side wants US to give up, it makes it easier for them.
They want the children, and they are waiting and watching for just the right time, to abduct their minds and hearts. It is the doorway to the world that Lucifer enters.
Why are christian children still in the government programing schools.
Why are anyone’s children in government schools?
Because we are forced to send the children for indoctrination?
Parents teach your children your values at home, they belong to you not the state.
Your taxes pay for so called education, you do have a say so on what is being taught to your children.
It is supposed to be all about, reading, writing, math, art, language, learning skills.
I do not want religion taught to my children in school. Not every religious organization teaches the truth either. It is up to the parents to teach their religion at home also.
This present government seems to think they out number us, but we out number those who sit in the whiter mans house.
Why are we sitting back and just taking it?
Someone has to fire the first righteous shot, when they come to get you, to cut your head off.
He who endures to the end, the same shall be saved.
Can’t do it hiding under a cloak.
Amen! DeLaFe
Can anyone tell me if there are updates being published for the court cases in teh speechless video series?