Religious right to seek legislation to punish Hollywood?

[donsu]

http://americablog.blogspot.com/archives/2004_11_01_americablog_archive.html#110113712497166656

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Today's Washington Post reports on the radical right's attack on the new movie about Kinsey. What the Post fails to report is that the freaks have been trying to smear Kinsey for at least ten years. They hope that by undermining the father of the sexual revolution they can undermine sex itself. Kind of a large point to miss, but oh well.

In any case, check out this little admission from Robert Knight, the chief anti-gay bigot of the religious right. Sounds like they now want to get laws passed by Congress that somehow punishes Hollywood every time it makes a movie the religious right doesn't like.

I'm serious folks, it's time to strike back, hard, against these little Hitlers.
Robert Knight, director of the conservative Culture and Family Institute in Washington, said evangelical Christian and Roman Catholic groups also want to bring to bear the political clout they demonstrated in the presidential election.

"Just as Reagan was not content to contain communism but announced a rollback, pro-family organizations are not content to protest the latest outrage anymore, but will seek legislation and will punish sponsors of lewd entertainment," he said.

Knight acknowledged, however, that some opponents of the Kinsey film may be reluctant to try to punish its distributor, Fox Searchlight, owned by conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
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and here are the lawyers to help them do it:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2026&ncid=2026&e=3&u=/latimests/falwellsschooljoinsothersinteachinglawtotheirflocks

Falwell's School Joins Others in Teaching Law to Their Flocks

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So at 34, the human relations specialist from Lynchburg made good on a longtime interest by enrolling in law school. But unlike most prospective lawyers, she applied to only one place.

"I wanted to take it in a Christian setting," said Meador, a member of the inaugural law class at Liberty University, a Baptist college founded here in 1971 by the Rev. Jerry Falwell. "I don't believe anyone could be neutral. We're willing to tell you what we believe and to follow that."

The school, like Meador, who aspires to argue cases before the Supreme Court, has grand designs. Right now, it has only 60 students and six faculty members. Provisional accreditation by the American Bar Assn. — which certifies that a school has been evaluated on the quality of its legal education and allows students to sit for the bar exam in any state — is at least two years away.

But by teaching law from a Christian perspective, Falwell hopes to train a cadre of Christian lawyers to fight what he sees as the growing secularization of public life across the country.

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(the rest of this article will set your teeth on edge)

[bryant69]

1. This is nothing new

I mean they've always wanted to punish hollywood. Since the 40s if not before. They just think they have the power to do so now.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[yellowcanine]

2. Meador is going to find out that faith based lawyering won't get her very

far. People are only going to pay for real lawyering. And does this twit know how few lawyers get to argue before the SCOTUS? Kind of like a junior high basketball player talking about the NBA.

[Chimpanzee]

3. God, they must have smal penises!

[DireStrike]

4. I wonder if they'll punish Fox.

haha...

[prodigal_green]

5. Free speech for me...

but not for thee.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

6. The "Hitlers" are here!

:scared:

:puke:

[Krocksice]

7. back to McCarthyism!!!

Yay!!!!