Who says the Christian Right has no creativity?

Nobody that I've heard of, actually. They're pretty creative when it comes to finding menaces lurking to steal the souls of good Christian white folks.

The Christian Righties have been bent out of shape recently about a new NBC series called The Book of Daniel: Teen Mania Founder Calls 'Book of Daniel' Series 'Virtue Terrorism' Christian Post 01/08/06. The article reports:

Ron Luce, the founder and president of Teen Mania Ministries, called the glamorization of sin in shows such as NBC's "The Book of Daniel" and their effect on the nation's children "virtue terrorism." NBC's newest series, which aired Friday despite the harsh criticism from both the Christian and mainstream arena and the refusal of three affiliate networks to air the program, showcases an Episcopalian priest who has a homosexual son, a drug-dealing daughter, a skirt-chasing adopted son, and an alcoholic wife.

"It's virtue terrorism and it is having a dangerously dramatic effect on our children," said Luce, whose Christian youth organization reaches millions of young people worldwide. "Just look at the explosion of illicit sexuality our kids are exposed to through TV shows and media like Desperate Housewives, Sex in the City, and MTV videos."

Lord, I hope they don't stumble across what they run on the Spanish-language channels Univision and Telemundo any time soon! The stars on boring old English-language TV just don't look like this. Or this. (Click on Tema Musical. My wife is in love with the guy with the Jesus hair who has his shirt off in half of these. So is every other woman I know who watches this. Here's a still photo.) Or this. (She's the true love of the previous guy in their current series El Cuerpo del Deseo; I'm in love with her.) Or this.


If our Christian Right guardians of television virtue were to tune in to an hour or two of these telenovelas, it would probably send them rushing out to hire a gay hooker.

By the way, what the [Cheney] is "virtue terrorism"?

And has anybody ever heard of a Christian ministry that had "mania" in the title before? Yikes! Their Web site at this writing features warnings like, "This is a generation without morality". And I'm pretty sure they're not talking about middle-aged Republicans who support torture. It also says that 58% of today's teens have been exposed to "objectionable content on the Web". Well, can't their parents just tell them to stop going to all those rightwing Web sites?

Yep, these young people today are just going to Hail in a handbasket. Not like the good ole days, when football was the roughest thing on campus, and kids all still respected the college dean.

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