Rick Santorum’s plan to destroy Hollywood: Turn churches into movie theaters

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/29/rick-santorums-plan-to-destroy-hollywood-turn-churches-into-movie-theaters/



Rick Santorum’s plan to destroy Hollywood: Turn churches into movie theaters
By Ben Child, The Guardian
Friday, August 29, 2014 11:42 EDT

Rick Santorum has fired a warning shot across Hollywood’s bows with proposals to build a new film distribution system in which faith-orientated movies are screened in churches rather than cinemas.

The former Republican senator for Pennsylvania, who has previous labelled Hollywood “the devil’s playground”, is hoping to usher in a new dawn via documentary One Generation Away. Released by EchoLight Studios, the faith-oriented film production company of which Santorum became CEO in June 2013, the movie laments the increasing persecution it suggests Christians in the US are finding themselves subjected to.

Santorum has sent a five-minute promotional film to 3,000 American religious leaders offering them the chance to screen the documentary at their place of worship. The deal gives EchoLight $5 for every ticket sold, while churches are free to set the ticket price.

“Many churches all over the country have the ability of theatrical-quality projection and sound,” Santorum told the Hollywood Reporter. “Instead of trying to encourage our church audience to go to the theatre, how about our church audiences go to church?”

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Tricky Ricky is the Energizer bunny of dumb shit.

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