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Alfie:
When Minto was interviewed about the situation he stated that he was fired for that reason along with other remarks he had made over the years criticizing the Catholic religion. I listened to his show on the week you are refering to and his show was swamped with angry Catholic callers. He was not nasty with his comments, he merely questioned Catholic doctrine and their ideas on salvation.

The station merely took the politically correct route to deal with the situation. I no longer listen to WORD radio out of Pittsburgh. I wrote a letter to WORD radio protesting their actions but to no avail. WORD out of Pittsburg has had a Catholic talk show on Saturday nights for a number of years.
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You may not have found his words nasty but maybe the station did. Or maybe he was fired for another reason and Minto finds it more “advantageous” to spin it that it was for being anti-Catholic.

In short, you don’t really know the reason and your accusation against the station without all the facts may be bearing false witness, a grave matter listed in teh 10 Commandments.
 
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Alfie:
On the talk radio portion of the station there was a host by the name of Marty Minto who was fired from the station because of some remarks he made about John Paul after his death. He was fired because he made a comment to the effect that no one knows for sure whether John Paul went to heaven. He got fired for that remark. To much pressure from the local Catholics.
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I was living in Pittsburgh at the time that Marty Minto was fired and I know the station you are talking about as Catholic Answers used to air right after Dr. Laura around 2001-2. In any event, Marty Minto was not a great talk show host and was on the radar to be fired around the time of the pope’s death last year anyway. It was not “pressure from local Catholics” who publicly came out to say he had a right to express his opinion. It was the owners of the station that got rid of him because they did not want to alienate Catholic listeners. They made that decision, not Catholics.

The comment on the pope was just one of a series of remarks so Minto was already in their radar, as I said. The station, in an official memo, said Minto “tended to unnecessarily alienate listeners.”
 
O.K. I found an article from the Trib from around the time of Minto’s firing which shows what really happened.

www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/pittsburgh/s_323955.html

“I was called into the office after my show Friday and told that I was being let go because I was alienating the listeners,” said Minto, 39, of New Castle, Lawrence County, who previously did talk-radio shows in Albany, N.Y., Phoenix and Denver. Minto also is senior pastor of the 100-member Turning Point Community Church in New Castle."

“We ended our relationship” with him because of differences in how he conducted his show, Gratner said. “WORD-FM needs to function in this city in support of the entire church – that means everybody – and not focus on denominational issues,” he said."

“The Rev. Ron Lengwin, spokesman for the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, said the diocese did not complain to WORD-FM regarding Minto’s show. He said station management contacted the diocese to say that Minto had been fired.”

The idea that Minto was fired due to Catholic protests is an Evangelical-driven myth.

The Diocese of Pittsburgh *never *requested that Minto be fired. In fact, as a Catholic I remember that I did not hear about his comments until after he was fired. Why? Because he was fired immediately after that show. After Minto was fired, the station called the Diocese of Pittsburgh and apologized and informed them of what happened. Like I said, I was in Pittsburgh and I remember how nonplussed Catholics were. It seemed like an internal radio station problem with Minto in general and the pope comment was an excuse to fire him.

This martyr role that Evangelicals have turned Minto into is false. If you look on Evangelical sites - Minto’s name is everywhere - all with the assertion that he was fired because Catholics complained. At the time, I remember a representative of the diocese saying they felt “he had a right to his opinion”. Minto got himself fired, not Catholics.
 
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Alfie:
My question is, are there any Protestant programs on ETWN besides conversion stories?
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Adventures in Odyssey, a lame cartoon based on the awesome radio series, that is clearly evangelical protestant in its theology.
 
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