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Conservative musician and activist Pat Boone has been on the warpath against Saturday Night Live ever since the program aired a sketch parodying the right-wings persecution complex, criticizing the shows cast members as Satanic and bound for hell.
In an interview last night with Alan Colmes, Boone said that there should be regulations that prohibit blasphemy and that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) should punish networks that air such blasphemous programming.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-boone-government-should-outlaw-blasphemy-and-punish-saturday-night-live-if-it-blasphemes
rexcat
(3,622 posts)Stupid man but not an uncommon opinion with the religious right in this country. Religion over government is their mantra.
Cartoonist
(7,532 posts)Boone, insisting that at least 90 percent of the American public wants this kind of censorship
Warpy
(113,130 posts)and he ASSumes from that sampling that we're all that nuts.
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)when people pull numbers out of their ass.
I have heard that sort of thing MILLIONS of times!
Iggo
(48,271 posts)progressoid
(50,748 posts)Pat Boone is alive and Bowie is dead.
Freelancer
(2,107 posts)mr blur
(7,753 posts)Cartoonist
(7,532 posts)The movie biopic of Little Richard was very entertaining. When he first heard Boone singing his song, his associate told him who was covering it. He replied, "he's not covering it, he's butchering it."
Ozzie wouldn't let Pat do one of his songs on the OP album.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)but were I god, I would rather have Bowie in heaven with me than Boone.
progressoid
(50,748 posts)My heaven would be a great heaven. There wouldn't be many Christians in it though.
Iggo
(48,271 posts)Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)Does it matter how blasphemous it is, or will all blasphemy be equal?
I suggest either stoning or burning at the stake.
Brainstormy
(2,428 posts)that drawing and quartering thing. But it does take a larger venue.
onager
(9,356 posts)The Hung, Drawn & Quartered
http://www.hung-drawn-and-quartered.co.uk/
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)these assclowns deride sharia law, when they want to institute the same thing here.
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)The fundamental Christians are TOTALLY different than those Muslims.
Forget about the fact that they have the same sins. Don't think about how they have instituted some really sick punishments for those "crimes". And let's not talk about how they want everyone to think just like them, no matter how they have to force it on them.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)sakabatou
(43,067 posts)RussBLib
(9,666 posts)wanting to control what others do
It kills me how presumptuous these bastards are. Thinking they know the ultimate truth based on...what...that ancient book full of bullshit and contradictions?
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)They are just so pissed that other people live on the planet.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)1st Amendment threads are real depressing, like when people tried to argue that drawing cartoons of Mohammed is illegal because it could "make" someone so angry they do something violent.
derpities is right.
LOL for Pat Boone in the bondage outfit, too. I remember that, that was a real moment