May 2, 2007
After monitoring the latest episode of Fox Television’s “Family
Guy”, the Yiddish term “chutzpah” immediately came to mind.
Definition of chutzpah: unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity.
The sarcastically named “Family Guy” is an attack upon families
from the first minute to the last. The weekly animated show is rife with incredibly
crude, sexual dialogue and depictions, profanities, references that legitimize
pornography use, deviant sexual behavior, as well as regular attacks upon
Christianity.
Sunday evening’s episode contained all of the above. From references
to “kinky porn” and allusions to S&M, to vulgar dialogue that
is too explicit to repeat. However, the main theme of this latest episode
was to make a mockery of the Christian faith.
This episode featured a young male character from “Family Guy”
fantasizing about meeting Jesus. He imagines Christ nude while bathing and
the scene strongly suggests homosexual overtones between Jesus Christ and
this boy.
In addition, a church service is shown where Holy Scripture as the Word of
God is mocked and the sacrament of communion and its significance are turned
into a joke as the sacred representations of the body and blood of Christ
are described as a snack treat. As the elements of communion are being distributed
the minister/priest tells the recipients: “Eat up, you all. You’re
good, church-going folk – you all deserve a little treat.” Also,
throughout the episode Christians of course are portrayed as judgmental, extremist
whackos.
Numerous additional examples could be given from this one episode alone,
but they shouldn’t be needed to demonstrate the vileness of this program
from beginning to end. And here’s where the “chutzpah” comes
in. The ending scene has the main character of the show lecturing viewers
on “family values”. The character states: “If you’re
watching a TV show and you decide to take your values from that, you’re
an idiot. Maybe you should take responsibility for what values your kids are
getting. Maybe you shouldn’t be letting your kids watch certain shows
in the first place if you have such a big problem with them, instead of blaming
the shows themselves.”
Here is Fox who just used the public airwaves to attack morality and insult
and ridicule what millions hold sacred all in the guise of “free speech”,
yet those whose values have been assaulted are told to just “not watch”.
That may be all fine and good if we each lived in a vacuum, but even if my
family and yours are never exposed to content such as “Family Guy”,
we are all impacted for we all swim in the cultural waters polluted by the
likes of Fox. Fox’s rationale to the moral pollution they spew would
be comparable to corporations polluting the air and water at will and without
regulation or control and telling citizens: ‘Maybe you should take responsibility
for the air and water your kids get. Maybe you should wear air masks and boil
your own water if you have a problem with it instead of blaming corporations
themselves’.
Fox does not have impunity for the filth they air on public airwaves. What
they do affects the public which then in turn affects my family and yours
and the children in families who don’t have the parental guidance they
need. It is those children who especially are in danger of “taking their
values” from a TV show. Fox and their sponsors must be held accountable
not just on behalf of my family, but for the sake of our culture and the generation
growing up in this moral cesspool.
Please contact Fox Television and the advertisers listed below. Sample letters
are also included, but as always your own personal letter will be even more
effective. Please stand with us in the defense of our faith and our values.
Contact Fox:
News Corporation - Fox Entertainment Group, Inc.
K. Rupert Murdoch – Chairman and CEO
Peter F. Chernin – President and COO
1211 Avenue of the Americas, Ste. 302
New York, NY 10036
Phone: 212-852-7111
Fax: 212-852-7145
Email: abutcher@newscorp.com
(Andrew Butcher, Sr. Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Communications)
Email: joe.earley@fox.com
(Joseph Earley, Executive Vice President – Fox Broadcasting Company)
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Sample letter to Fox:
Dear …
I am outraged that Fox Television continues to use the public airwaves to
attack and ridicule the faith and the values of millions, as you’ve
done with the latest reprehensible episode of “Family Guy”.
Not only do you mock Christianity - alluding to homosexual overtones between
Christ and one of your show’s characters, as just one example of many
- but you then have audacity to use the show’s dialogue to assert that
those who don’t want their family’s values undermined should just
“not watch”. However, what you broadcast on the public airwaves
affects the public which then in turn affects my family and yours and the
children in families who don’t have the parental guidance they need.
I strongly urge you to do the responsible thing and reconsider the type of
material you air on Fox Television – material that pollutes the cultural
waters in which we all swim. I look forward to your response.
Sincerely,
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Contact the sponsors of “Family Guy”. The advertiser list below
includes Burger King, Wendy’s, Subway, PepsiCo.
“Family Guy” advertiser link:
http://americandecency.org/main.php?f=updates_new/2007/April/4.29a.07
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Sample advertiser letter:
Dear …
I am appalled to learn that your company is a sponsor of the vulgar and offensive
show “Family Guy” on Fox Television. Your support of this program
supports crude, sexually explicit material and the frequent, insulting ridicule
of the Christian faith. Is this what you want your company’s name identified
with?
I urge you to withdraw your sponsorship of “Family Guy” as well
as from shows of similar ilk. As long as you continue to lend your name and
support to a program that blatantly leads to the coarsening of our culture,
the undermining of values, and the ridiculing of my faith and the faith of
millions, I will not support your company with my business.
Please let me know of your decision regarding future sponsorship of “Family
Guy”.
Sincerely,
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Let's encourage one another and strengthen one another to be more like our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
American Decency Association
Bill Johnson, President
P.O. Box 202
Fremont, MI 49412
ph: 231-924-4050
www.americandecency.org
