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This part also -

The league even took exception to the church's plan to influence nonmembers with a video highlighting the Christian testimonies of Colts coach Tony Dungy and Chicago Bears coach Lovie Smith.
"While this may be a noble message," NFL assistant counsel Rachel L. Margolies wrote in a follow-up e-mail, "we are consistent in refusing the use of our game broadcasts in connection with events that promote a message, no matter the content."

The NFL has a right to protect their product - this isn't an example of anti-Christian bias or anything else you want to imagine into it.

The league even took exception to the church's plan to influence nonmembers with a video highlighting the Christian testimonies of Colts coach Tony Dungy and Chicago Bears coach Lovie Smith.

I wasn't aware that the league held intellectual ownership of Tony and Lovie's religious views.

The NFL has a right to protect their product - this isn't an example of anti-Christian bias or anything else you want to imagine into it.

If they want to control their product in this way then they need to stick to pay-per-view only or some other private distribution method. As someone said earlier, don't broadcast it over my property on public airwaves.

Their copyright prevents taping it, redistributing it, etc.....but to say that it prohibits who I can have in my own house watching my own television and limiting what we can talk about at the viewing is UNREASONABLE. If I want to have 50 people over to talk about politics and watch a publicly broadcast program on a 60" television.....all on private property.....I will.

Can the Democratic National Committee prohibit us watching their convention and talking about certain things during it just because they are "copyrighted" images? Give me a break.

Can the DNC get mad at a certain manufacturer who gave money to the other party and prohibit viewing on "Hitachi" televisions?

I think not. These are unreasonable extensions of the copyright.