Pushing boundaries

I have had a love-hate relationship with the TV for donkeys years. Too much of it when very young, and actually spendng more time in front of it than I need to breeds resentment. And TV is a bit like watching other peoples lives go by, rather than getting on with ones own. I recently heard someone describe it as Satan's instrument in the living room, and it was a pretty accurate depiction. UK TV and what is allowable and what is not before it goes beyond the bounds of decency from what I know is allowed to go much further than they are in America. Even the commercials have nudity in them. And what is supposed to be family viewing at around seven PM they have soap operas which is full of homoseuxality, teen pregnancies and a host of other things that children or young folks should be protected from rather than these programmes geared towards them.

Last nite, the BBC aired Jerry Springer the musical. I didn't see it I hasten to add. Here is a just bit as regards this broadcast:

BBC 2 plans to broadcast Jerry Springer, The Opera immediately after Christmas. This musical, notorious for containing over 8,000 expletives, depicts the characters of Jesus, Mary and God as self-centred sexual deviants who give and receive extreme verbal abuse and a horrific series of blasphemies all in the name of comedy. The show's artistic director admits that it is a deliberate attack on good taste and the BBC concedes that the intended broadcast "pushes back the boundaries of taste and decency". Nevertheless, the show is planned to be transmitted without any cuts.

It went ahead and aired despite the enormous protests against and picketing of the BBC and the voice of decency and the Christian voice was completely ignored. And the director of the BBC Mark Thompson who the programme would have to get past also claims to be a Christian. Full Story We have to pay a licence fee over here just to be able to watch TV. You can't watch it without a licence or you are breaking the law. Its over a hundred pounds per year. But its only because the BBC is commercial free. So, the licence fee goes towards being able to air this type of garbage, I would rather that the BBC lost its none commercial status, and funded its own depravity.

And earlier in the week. Our longest running police series which is kind of a mix between a police soap opera and drama also had a theme of controversy. It had its first "gay wedding" and one of the men ginvolved in the programmed is portrayed as being a Christian. And whil skimming breakfast TV one day last week I saw that the before he got married some of his friends from his church, kidnapped " the groom" in an effort to talk him out of going so against what the Bible teaches about the homosexual lifestyle. It was billed as a good theological debate and aspect. So, I vdo'd it to see how it turned out. The guy who kidnapped " the groom" turned out to be a hateful bigot just using his bible to hide behind and was presented as somewhat of an unloving fanatic. And because of THAT, that gave room for the homosexual story and lifestyle to be promoted only in a positive light and live and let live manner. Full Story We can of course register our protests to things like these two broadcasts. But it really makes very little difference to the final outcome of if they get aired or not. But I do it at least, knowing theres very little else one can do in these type of situations.

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