Nashville television station shelves "Book of Daniel"

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The controversy continues. I wonder how the ratings will be in a few more weeks. Does anyone have anything to say about this program. I have never seen it nor do I intend to see it.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - NBC’s Nashville affiliate has closed “The Book of Daniel” after the show, whose main character is a pill-popping Episcopal priest with a gay son and a pot-dealing daughter, drew thousands of complaints.

WSMV-TV General Manager Elden Hale Jr. said he decided to pull the show starring Aidan Quinn after NBC rejected the station’s request to air it overnight instead of during “family viewing time.” Despite its third-place finish nationally, the show won its time slot last Friday in the Nashville TV market. Hale said viewers objected to the language, the sexual content and the portrayal of Jesus, who appears to Quinn’s character for regular chats.

WSMV’s general voice mailbox shut down within 20 hours of the airing of the two-hour premiere last Friday because 137 complaint messages jammed the machine, WSMV officials said. There also were complaints via e-mail and regular mail, including letters bearing church letterheads.
 
One of the things I noticed in my past life as a gay rights activist is the tendency of homosexuals to project their problems on everyone else. I think this might be an attempt to make themselves feel more normal by imposing a skewed personal view on reality.

This show is an excellent example of that trait. Written by a homosexual, everyone is either fornicating, drug dependent, a drug-dealer, or some unholy combination of the two. Especially disturbing is the portrayal of child deviancy as being perfectly normal.

As an activist, I was always shocked by how casually the homosexuals I knew would recall early childhood sexual experiences. They seemed to be oblivious to how such experiences are the exception and not the norm and to the fact that this may have caused their disorder in the first place. Children and homosexuals are really a bad combination as the writer, oblivious to the testimony of his own take on reality, shows us in his creation.

Good to see the protest worked for a change 🙂
 
I saw a little bit of one episode, “accidentally”…You know, the phone rang, the teakettle whistled, etc…and I came back into the living room to find an unidentified program on.
A couple of minutes was all it took; even if I had not heard about the show, it would have gone off–immediately–when the pastor swallowed a handful of pills, talked to “Jesus” in the car, & started preaching, high as the proverbial kite…
My response was to turn it off, fast, before, well…
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