Don Wildmon

AFA/AFR founder

August 1994 – In September, 1981, I flew to Vail, Colorado, to address about 300 members of the National Broadcasters Association for Community Affairs convention. In my presentation, I discussed the religious bigotry on network television. Because of the hateful, verbal reaction to my speech, I cut it short and was happy to leave the room with my hide intact.

A lot of water has run under the bridge since then, and it has carried with it the anti-Christian bigotry of the networks. For years, Christians on television have been depicted as cheats, liars, adulterers, con men, rip off artists, etc.

For the few times when a Christian was depicted in any favorable light, the programs were most often cast in days gone by.

Now the pagan left has taken up the cause of Christian bashing. Today we see an organized campaign against those traditionalists who act on their Christian faith. A few months ago the Washington Post, that bastion of “tolerant” intellectualism, referred to conservative evangelical Christians as being “largely poor, uneducated, and easy to command.”

According to columnist Charley Reese of the Orlando Sentinel, the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, the American Jewish Congress, and Planned Parenthood have fired broadsides at Christians.

Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders – a United Methodist like Hillary Clinton – even carried this bigotry to an intra-faith extreme when she called the Catholic Church a “celibate, male-dominated” organization whose priests need to “get over their love affair with the fetus and start supporting children.” This lady, who lectures all of us on being tolerant in a diverse society, called Christians who oppose her failed condom-on-demand sex education program the “un-Christian religious right.”

“We’ve got to be strong to take on those people who are selling out children out in the name of religion,” she told several hundred homosexuals at the Lesbian and Gay Health Conference.

Even Congressman Vic Fazio, head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, has brought his political party into the Christian bashing movement, criticizing Christians whose politics and values differ from his. This good congressman is terribly upset because some of them are becoming involved in the political process. This is the same Congressman Fazio who last February refused to vote for a resolution condemning Khalid Muhammad, aide to Louis Farrakhan.

Mr. Muhammad said: “We kill everything white....We kill the women, we kill the children, we kill the babies...we kill the faggot, we kill the lesbian, we kill them all.” He referred to the “cracker” Pope. Interestingly, Congressman Fazio refused to condemn Mr. Muhammad, because we now have a President “who values the diversity that is America.”

Don’t expect this attack on Christians whose values are traditional to ease up any time soon. There is a cultural war going on, and the pagan left know they can’t win in the arena of ideas. So they have resorted to the low road of divisiveness based on religion.

But in it all, you need to remember that these are very tolerant people who cherish diversity – as long as your religious values are the same as theirs.