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Edited on Fri Jan-27-06 08:05 PM by samhsarah
"If you do some easy research for yourselves, you'll find that Wildmon's hit list of shows that he's attacked over the years probably includes some of your favorites: All in the Family, Golden Girls, Cheers and many, many others. My point is this: We, as thinking people, as free Americans, have to stand up against this kind of virulent attack on our rights. This isn't about a television show. The Book of Daniel is over and gone, and there's nothing that can be done about that. This is about the future. Your future. Your freedom to choose what you want to watch, to read, to see in a movie theater or a museum, or hear in a concert hall — because they're all on the List. Please don't think that groups like the AFA and the Parents Television Council will ever stop, content with what they've "achieved." Their stated goal is to clean up television. And for many of us, that means the shows that we watch and enjoy. "Choice" isn't an option, because apparently, they've lost their remote controls along with their tolerance.
And it won't stop with entertainment and culture. What happens when newspapers and news outlets become fearful of advertiser backlash? When "Americans for Clean and Wholesome News" (my own made-up name, I hope!) decides that a news story — a gay bashing, the bombing of an abortion clinic or the killing of a minority person — is just too darned inappropriate to be printed? What happens when the truth gets altered, or just plain squashed, to fit what some special interest group (masquerading as a religious organization) deems "appropriate"? You lose, is what. You lose your right to make your own decisions, form your own judgments, live your own lifestyle…. You lose your right to the truth. And that is the end of freedom. Don't let that happen. Fight back. Form groups of your own. Demand to be given your freedom of choice! It may not be affecting you personally right now, but trust me, if you don't speak up while you still can, one day it will. And by then it might just be too late."
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