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Latest NewsActivist Groups Urge Obama to Reject Boy Scout Honor From Fox News: Activist groups, including Scouting for All, urge President Obama not to accept the honorary Presidency of the Boy Scouts of America until they stop discriminating. Scouting for All is a 100% Volunteer 501-(c)(3) Nonprofit Organization. Every dollar donated goes toward our education and advocacy programs, and is tax deductible.
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Networks Coward to Religious Right Agenda
In an Associated Press story (May 2), Focus on the Family's president and CEO, Jim Daly, said the spots were an attempt by his organization to offer "faith-based" advice on parenting, despite the fact that ABC executives have twice denied recent similar requests by the UCC to purchase network time as part of its national advertising campaign. "Focus on the Family is clearly a religious organization," the Rev. Robert Chase, director of the UCC's communication ministry, told United Church News. "Here's yet another illustration of how a particular narrow agenda makes up the rules as they go along, while another religious viewpoint cannot even purchase time on the people's airwaves to proclaim an all-inclusive message." In December and March, the three major networks denied a purchasing request by the Cleveland-based UCC. NBC and CBS rejected the UCC's 30-second ads as "too controversial." ABC, however, sidestepped the fray by maintaining that it has a blanket policy against all religious advertising. "Why are the network executives so willing to bow to this narrow agenda of the religious right?" Chase told United Church News. "Why is one religious viewpoint continually accommodated by the network elites?" "Focus on the Family may be using a non-sectarian come-on, but what kind of assurances can ABC provide
that Focus on the Family's follow-up literature is respectful of all faiths, respectful of non-traditional families, The apparent hole in ABC's advertising policy has not been lost on internet blogs. Below are a few recent posts:
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