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The Indecency Police are at it again!
The Taliban had their Ministry for the Protection of Vice and Virtue. We have our decency police: the Federal Communications Commission, chaired by Kevin Martin, an enthusiastic decency warrior. As reported on NPR's morning edition this morning,
CBS will push the limits of FCC indecency regulations when it airs a newly revised Sept. 11 documentary next month. Despite increasingly tight FCC guidelines, the program will contain raw language seldom heard on network television.
The term "indecency" has nothing to do with violence, lying, or hurting and abusing other humans and planet earth. It's about swearing. It's about using a narrow interpretation of the Ten Commandments (Thou shalt not use the Lord's name in vain) as the basis for policy decisions.
The people running this country want us to go back to the era of the Puritans. America's Providential History, a popular textbook in Christian schools and the Christian homeschool movement, extols the Puritans as having created the ultimate dominionist society:
The primary strength of the Puritans was their "spirit of dominion." They recognized the scriptural mandate requiring Godly rule, and zealously set out to establish that in all aspects of society. (p. 84) |
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