Last week, the anti-family American Family Association and Focus on the Family protested a decision by some privately owned TV stations not to carry a paranoid antigay infomercial titled “Speechless: Silencing the Christians.”
Both organizations believe that private broadcasters should be forced to carry sectarian religious propaganda against their will, and that a refusal by private broadcasters to air wealthy organizations’ pro-prejudice advocacy somehow “silences” those sectarian groups.
This week, Focus on the Family took the opposite position regarding the Fairness Doctrine, a defunct federal policy which once required private broadcasters using the public airwaves to carry a balance of ideological perspectives.
Today, Focus on the Family argued that broadcasters should not be forced to carry liberal viewpoints with which they disagree.
It’s still perfectly OK, in Focus’ view, to force broadcasters to air its self-pitying antifamily paranoia.
As if this is any surprise.
When it comes to their “ex-gays” giving their ever-changing personal “testimonies”, they won’t allow any stable gay or “ex-ex-gay” people to speak – but will throw a fit about any event which speaks positively of gay people without offering the alternative “ex-gay” representatives to be there.
You are doing a great service to the homosexual community/movement.
I think the Rush Limbaugh types are also guilty of saying one thing and doing another. (He is quoted in a current issue of Imprimis, publication of Hillsdale College.) What they say “conservatives” believe is true, but they don’t practice what they preach.
What we need is to know how to deal with religion while pointing out the evil things done in its name.
The AFA is nothing if not consistent in their hypocrisy.