Posted on 10/27/2009 10:07:38 PM PDT by Nachum
The war on conservative speech has moved from the White House to your neighborhood pews. Left-wing church leaders want the Federal Communications Commission to crack down on "hate speech" over cable TV and right-leaning talk-radio airwaves. President Obama's speech-stifling bureaucrats seem all too happy to oblige.
Over the last week, an outfit called "So We Might See" has conducted a nationwide fast to protest "media violence" -- specifically, "anti-immigrant hate speech, which employs flawed arguments to appeal to fears rather than facts." Their ire is currently aimed at Fox News and conservative talk-show giants. But how long before they target ordinary citizens who call in to complain about the government's systemic refusal to enforce federal sanctions against illegal alien employers or the bloody consequences of lax deportation policies?
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
A George Soros-UCC operation that has already been told to stop using the UCCB and Methodist Churches in their campaign, they are not members apparently.
Censorship is coming.
Liberal church groups were instrumental in filing with the FCC back in the 1960’s and 1970’s to take two radio stations off the air owned by fundamentalist preachers.
The vehicle they used was the Fairness Doctrine.
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