Homegrown Fundamentalist Censorship

By Rich Zeoli

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) When Americans demand cancellation of a television show because the idea it promotes may be false or dangerous, they are no better than fundamentalists who demand a newspaper not publish a cartoon. Granted, they dont resort to violence, but their non-violent demand for censorship is equally as dangerous. Im offended, scared, outraged, threatened, or bullied so your show, movie, book, or newspaper needs to be banned and a formal apology needs to be issued.

We stood up to North Koreas attempts to silence a satirical movie and watched in horror as Islamic terrorists murdered 12 over a cartoon. But we have our own homegrown fundamentalists demanding TCL cancel a show called My Husbands Not Gay.

Almost 100,000 people have signed the petition demanding TLC cancel this dangerous show.

A TV show. Dangerous.

These individuals are no better than the fanatics in Paris who demanded a cartoon be censored because its dangerous to incite Muslim fanatics. And let me give you the reasons why someone reading this will comment and tell me how Im wrong, and this instance is different, and in this case, the censorship completely warranted. Ready?

You dont understand. This time its different. This show needs to be cancelled because its dangerous.

The reasons for the danger are debatable, as all ideas are all, but the same can be said for the following:

Its dangerous to publish cartoons about the Prophet Mohammed because it will incite Muslim terrorism.

Its dangerous to screen The Interview because it will inflame North Korea.

See the original post here:
Homegrown Fundamentalist Censorship