August 10, 2005

FCC poised to crack down on indecency: our tax dollars at work.

Still at work. Still screaming on the inside:

[FCC Chairman Kevin] Martin has hired lobbyist and activist Penny Nance as an advisor to the FCC.

As [Mediaweek]'s Todd Shields writes, Nance is a long-time anti-pornography activist and has worked as a lobbyist for groups that "push for Christian precepts in public policy."

Until recently a board member of Concerned Women for America, which describes its mission, in part, as "helping… to bring Biblical principles into all levels of public policy," Nance also worked as a lobbyist for a group called the Center for Reclaiming America. On its Web site, the Center claims that it "focuses on five key fronts of the modern-day culture war: (1) Religious Liberties, (2) the Sanctity of Life, (3) the Homosexual Agenda, (4) Pornography, and (5) Promoting Creationism."

The site also says that its aim is to "defend and implement the Biblical principles on which our country was founded."

Article [I.]

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Posted by rv at August 10, 2005 05:54 PM to political
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Courtesy ABC News

"Almost half of the U.S. population — 45 percent — believes that human beings did not evolve, but instead were created by God, as stated in the Bible, about 10,000 years ago, according to a November 2004 Gallup poll."

Sigh...

Posted by: Z at August 11, 2005 07:02 PM

I'd like to think that 45% of the U.S. population that has time to answer a Gallup poll believes that we were created by God 10,000 years ago. I truly hope that the Science! camp has more of a lead than that poll would indicate.

Posted by: rv at August 11, 2005 10:41 PM

Well, I for one am happy she's for the Homosexual Agenda-- oh. She's AGAINST the Homosexual Agenda. You'd think they'd try to use parallel construction on lists like that. Considering that Creationism is old testament, then that list is more rightly:

(1) Repeal the 1st Amendment, (2) Ban Abortion, (3) The Heterosexual Agenda, (4) Repeal the 1st Amendment, and (5) Repeal the 1st Amendment.

Posted by: at August 15, 2005 12:24 PM