Televangelists Hope To Smite A La Carte Cable
from the though-I-walk-through-the-valley-of-HBO,-I-shall-not-watch dept
The FCC's got a slightly unusual foe to its call for cable companies to sell channels on an a la carte basis: televangelists. It hasn't just been consumer groups pushing for the change, but also anti-indecency activists, who say the plan would let parents not subscribe to channels that could corrupt their children. The televangelists, who often side with the conservative advocacy groups, staunchly oppose the a la carte plan, because it would likely remove them from a good number of people's TV sets. They say it's so they can "preach to the unchurched", and some are attempting to pre-empt the issue by buying up local broadcast stations and forcing cable companies to relay them through must-carry regulations. Making an exception to the a la carte plan, for religious stations or anything else, would completely undermine it, and would lead to all sorts of channels seeking exceptions and ruling that they must be carried -- whether it's for ideological reasons, or financial ones.
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What else?
what else will they want? Legislate TVs with no power off function so I can't turn them off either?
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Re: What else?
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finally my children won't be corrupted...
Finally my children won't be corrupted by accidentally tuning into this cult that worships death and irresponsibility.
The comedian Doug Stanhope has a good bit about how we shouldn't teach any religion to our kids until they're 18 years of age. THEN they can decide if it makes logical sense to them. Seems this is a move in the right direction(or is that the LEFT direction..muahahha).
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Like it matters.
If people want to watch it, they will. Otherwise they won't and there's nothing the evangilists can do that will stop that (unless they go "A Clockwork Orange" and force people to watch).
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tele-religion
Amen
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Today's clergy tell their sheepish flocks how to vote, making those churches into political organizations.
It isn't totally about money -- there is a good dose of hunger for power and authoritarianism present in most religions.
Their insatiable greed for money has transmogrified many churches into just another money grubbing corporation.
Time to eliminate their non-profit status and tax them like any other business.
We wouldn't violate the constitution by telling them who or how to worship,
we would just have them render unto Caesar that which is due Caesar.
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THE IDENTITY OF THE BEAST
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