Posted on 09/12/2006 6:41:27 PM PDT by blam
BBC did not know of 9/11 film's link to religious right
David Leigh
Wednesday September 13, 2006
The Guardian (UK)
The BBC broadcast a controversial docu-drama, The Path to 9/11, this week without realising that it had been made by a member of the US religious right. The three-hour programme, shown over two nights on BBC2 to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the attack on the twin towers, was purchased from ABC, a subsidiary of Disney. At the last minute the US television company was forced to re-edit sequences after claims of distortion from former president Bill Clinton and members of his administration.
A BBC spokesman said the organisation did not vet film-makers on their political or religious beliefs.
The film's director, David Cunningham, is active in Youth With a Mission (Ywam), a fundamentalist evangelical organisation founded by his father, Loren Cunningham. According to its publications, the group believes in demonic possession, spiritual healing and conservative sexual morality.
Last month David Cunningham addressed a conference in England organised by the group at its UK headquarters in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, on the making of the film. His talk was entitled Christ-like Witness in the Film Industry.
According to one of the group's publications,"David and his wife Judy are the nucleus of an association of more than 40 Ywam alumni who are called to the communications industry in the Los Angeles area ... to create an independent film company whereby he could both influence the Hollywood film industry and produce major motion pictures that would carry a Biblical, values-based message".
Speaking from the Harpenden HQ, where would-be "disciples" pay more than £2,000 for six-month courses, the missionary organisation's international chair, Lynn Green, said that Mr Cunningham's influence in the film was limited. "He was hired by Disney to direct. He was not...
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Oh no, can't have religious people making movies.....
When do you start with the secular loyalty oaths, BBC?
No wonder the movie showed Monica talking in tongues.
Has the BBC ever listened to Howard Dean?
I can just see the job interviews at the Beeb..."Are you now or have you ever been a member of 'Youth with a Mission'?"
Meanwhile, 100,000,000 other vapid productions for our lamestream leftist-secularist Hollywood glitterati ....
or for that matter, George Galloway?
Ruh roh BBC, the Guardian is after you, time for you all at the BBC to cower in the corner sucking your thumbs in the fetal psoition.
"Are you now, or have you ever been, a Christian?"
I am waiting for the headline in some future movie:
BBC Unaware That Director Was Liberal Athiest
BBC Unaware That Director Was Muslim
Check the man's tattoos.
WEEEE! Christmas is EARLY this year folks!
Bruce Lindsey threatening ABC!
Guardian at BBC's throat!
What next? Katie denounces CNN!?!?! Lauer calls Hillary! a bitch!??!?!?!
This is delicious!
NOTE TO REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS---KEEP YOUR DAMN MOUTHS SHUT WHILE THIS IS GOING ON.
Funny I didn't notice any dangerous Christian overtones in the movie.
Note that they say did not vet as opposed to does not vet
Un-freakin' belevible!
OTOH, Communists are just fine. LOL. What are they thinking over in merry old England?
Are one of Ywam's practices idolization of Richard Clarke? If so, religion was in the movie.
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