Bilge
You just want to be in charge of what other people watch on TV. You want to remove choices from someone, because you are offended. Too bad, its still America, not a theocracy.
Did you even watch the show, or are you relying on group think to make up your mind?
Go play Taliban somewhere else, where its still allowed.
Yes, it's such crap you're easily refuting it with great insight and direct answers to my questions. Oh wait, that's not what you're doing at all.
You just want to be in charge of what other people watch on TV.
Evidence. Evidence. C'mon, chant it with me...evidence...evidence...Oooohhhhhhmmmmm
You want to remove choices from someone, because you are offended.
No, I'm 100% behind your right to write a nice letter to NBC asking them to run whatever garbage you'd like to see. You are opposed to me writing them to express my opinion, yet you actually believe that you're the one who supports individual freedom more. Sorry, no cigar.
Too bad, its still America, not a theocracy.
I chuckle warmly at the idea that asking a TV network to replace a show is somehow equivalent to the actions of the governments of places like Iran and Myanmar. Oh, and what part of the Constitution was it again that says I don't have the right to contact a business about their product mix? Surely an expert on civil liberties such as yourself should have no trouble citing it. Here, I'll even save you going to Google and give you a link to the text.
Did you even watch the show, or are you relying on group think to make up your mind?
Pretty good shot, except for the three flaws that turn it into crap:
1. Unless you've never, ever, relied on the opinion of another person before choosing to spend your time on a movie or TV show, you are being a hypocrite. Do you watch the 700 Club? If you don't, how do you know that Pat Robertson isn't the wonderful soul of wit and tolerance?
2. Group think is a very different psychological phenomenon than the one you're describing. What you would be describing is known in very technical language as "reading an article about a show and then not watching it." For a rundown on what group think is, take Intro to Psych at your local community college.
3. The only way my opinion of this situation would NOT be justified is if the last two paragraphs of the posted article (and many similar media reports) are complete lies. So, you saw the show...is it about "a drug-addicted Episcopal priest," etc, etc. or not?
o play Taliban somewhere else, where its still allowed.
Aw, that's cute.
The Taliban made men wear a certain type of beard, or be subject to criminal prosecution. They beat women for showing ankle and stoned them for premarital/extra-marital sex. If another man beat your wife with a rod at the market because she didn't move out of his way fast enough, well, too bad for you, and her. They said girls couldn't learn to read, women couldn't leave the house without a male relative, and you couldn't own a TV or listen to music. OPh, and then there was that little thing where they harbored Al-Qaida and helped get the 9/11 attacks on the ground.
But you figure a bunch of folks writing letters to a TV channel is the same thing. Bravo! That's real keen rreasoning.
Normally at this point I'd recommend you reach for the yellow-and-black striped handles located on either side of your seat so you can get out before the flames reach your main fuel tank, but this is kinda fun! Feel free to come on back at me, and make sure you hit me with that devestating "anti-letters" provision in the Constitution! Can't wait!
Did you even watch the show, or are you relying on group think to make up your mind?
Go play Taliban somewhere else, where its still allowed.
That is the biggest bunch of crap I have seen spewed in a long time.
What really bothers you is the free speech of Christians who have every right to be offended by this disgusting show.
The same reaction would have happened in the Jewish community if they had made the minister and his family about a rabbi, or in the islamic community if this had been the family of a mullah.
Somebody explained it perfectly yesterday when the compared this to the subtle propaganda against Jews in pre-nazi era leading into full hatred. This is what Hollywood is trying with Christianity....you know Christianity that evil religion that the founders used to find our freedoms we enjoy today the basis for our society. Gee, I wonder why somebody is trying to destroy the basis for our society.