Is this a sign that the culture wars are getting people all worked up? One of my friends on the net sent me one of those e-mail petitions trying to save religious TV from being suppressed by Madalyn O’Hair and petition 2493.
Normally, I’d expect an experienced Internet user like Bob to spot that phony-baloney story a mile away. Maybe the current spate of stories about anti-religious and anti-moral moves in society has got him on edge and made him more willing to fall for such an appeal.
But there is no truth to it: poor old O’Hair is dead, and she never tried to get the FCC to ban religious TV. The real petition 2493 didn’t involve her and was not an attempt to do that anyway. It sought to bar religious organizations from getting “educational” broadcast licenses. That petition was turned down: in 1975!
Let’s stamp out these scare-mongering stories, folks.