This Is Complete BS

Boy, it's a good thing that I've already left Nashville, because this might've had me packing my bags. WSMV is pulling "The Book of Daniel", deciding for all of the one million residents of the city and thousands more in the viewing area that the show "is not appropriate for broadcast television in this community."

Y'know, if someone doesn't want to watch a show for any reason, there's a wonderful invention called a remote control that allows you to change the channel in less than 30 seconds. If you don't want your kids watching something, there's a slightly more high-tech gizmo called a V-Chip. Moreover, cable companies like Comcast have very user-friendly ways to choose programming for kids. None of this stuff is very hard to do.

I've already said my piece about the show, but I'll once again reiterate that I don't see what the fuss is about. Okay, the priest is a pill-popper and has a gay son and a lot of other drama in his life. This happens in real life. If you don't believe me, try attending a fundamentalist church for a couple of years and you'll start seeing all the skeletons in the closet. Moreover, the fact that the priest accepts and loves all of this family members, despite what they do or whom they love, is indicitive of the "Love one another" commandment that Jesus gave. Remember the "Judge not, lest ye shall be judged" verse? I think a lot of people have. And if WSMV thinks that the people of Nashville are so much better than that, then they must be a part of a different community than I lived in.

Moreover, we've already got the FCC making sure that no one accidentally sees a real live nipple or actuallly hears a curse word. I don't need my local TV station making my TV-viewing decisions for me. Before you know it, "House" will get booted from Ch. 17 because it dares to show a functioning drug addict practicing medicine. Or those "Sex and the City" reruns on WKRN will be cut because they show single women having intercourse outside of marriage. See what I mean? Where do you draw a line? I can draw my own lines and make my own decisions, and shame on WSMV for trying to say I'm not moral enough to do it myself.