Friday, July 25, 2008

PBS Deserves to be De-funded Now

America's Darker Side
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Like its extreme liberal ally, the incidious Planned (really, Preventing) Parenthood Federation of America, Public Broadcasting receives a huge amount of money from America’s taxpayers. Both receive over $300 million dollars of subsidies EACH to carry on, at best, questionable activities.

Planned Parenthood, of course, makes its living butchering babies and wounding women. PPFA is a billion dollar business calling itself misleadingly, a health enterprise. Rightfully it should be called a cold blooded killing machine or hit squad. Shrewdly, PPFA disguises its so-called “family planning” wing of its business to subsidize its killing wing. Congress should stop all funding of this heinous outfit.

Likewise, the Public Broadcasting Service is funded significantly by the taxpayer and to a far lesser degree
by the public through fund-raising. They, too, lean very heavily to the left politically. They have outlived their usefulness, to be practical. During the 50s and 60s when there were only 3 broadcasters, CBS, NBC, ABC, they may have served a need, offering educational and cultural fare that the major networks did not provide. Today there is a plethora of channels offering a great variety of educational and cultural offeringS. I think of the History Channel and the Discovery Channel, among others. There is no need to fund PBS any longer. It should be supported by their viewers exclusively. They should be driven by the market.

What really brought taxpayer support for PBS was one of their upcoming series, The Bible's Buried Secrets, which airs beginning November 18th. Coincidentally, just in time for the Thanksgiving and Christmas season. In essence, the series trashes the Bible and those that believe in its inerrancy.

Can you imagine the outcry if PBS tried to criticize the Islamic Koran?

Ed Thomas of OneNewsNow.com reported today that some of the heretical pronouncements of the producers of The Bible’s Buried Secrets are a belief “that the Bible -- especially the Old Testament -- was written by up to 100 authors; that it was never meant to be literal; that the story of Abraham and Sarah likely was not a real story, but simply an allegory.”

This is just another evidence of the deliberate attack on God, Jesus Christ, and Christianity by elements of the culture bent on inculcating secular humanism as the only acceptable worldview or religion in 21st century America.

TAKE ACTION

Michael DePrimo, who is a spokesman for the
American Family Association (AFA), was quoted in the above referenced news story that he thinks "What we need to do is write to our congressmen and urge them to withhold funding of PBS if they're going to broadcast documentaries that directly attack the scriptures.”

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