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It seems that XM is in hot water for censoring another subscription based radio show's hosts. The Opie and Anthony Show. This show is known for it's foul language, sexual innuendo, etc. I posted the following comments on a Digg.com story.

Folks I am a Christian minister. I do not subscribe to XM or Sirius. Nor do I listen to the shows in question. I also will say that I believe that shows like these are disgusting display of a lack of talent, having to stoop to toilet humor to get a laugh.

That said, I am also, completely in agreement with Lou Galli's decision to pull Nashville Coffee's advertising dollars from XM. Let me explain why.

It is quite simple actually. XM is now wanting to censor the Opie and Anthony Show by suspending them (I do believe that what they were suspended for was crude and vulgar). However, how long will it be before XM will censor other shows. Ones with a Christian theme, for fear of offending some liberal somewhere or some special interest group.

It's all about freedom of choice. It is about where I choose to put my money. I know that there are lots of great programming on XM and Sirius. I also know that there are plenty of vulgar, hate filled, anti-God, anti-Christian shows on there as well. I choose not to support XM by giving them my money. But if I did have a subscription to the service I have a choice to block (via parental controls) those channels that air such shows or just choose not listen to them.

It's free speech. It's the First Amendment. It's the Constitution. This may sound double minded, but at the very same time, I support XM's prerogative as a company operating in a free capitalistic society to make business decisions. Just like a "Doctor" makes a business decision to dismember babies still in the womb for a few hundred dollars.

PS: Oh and for you liberal democrat sycophant Diggers out there. No where in the Constitution does it say "Separation of Church and State". Get over it. That was for free.

Comments (2) >>

Research?
written by Mark, November 05, 2008

I dont have to do research. This is a Blog! Just ask the Obama Mania Bloggers out there.

We need to be glad to have what we have because with Barak "I'm a Marxist" Obama. Our days of FREE SPEECH are numbered!

I also think you need to read the REST of the Federalist Papers.
http://patriotpost.us/

pardon my french
written by Alex, November 05, 2008

Well, nor does the Constitution mention God. The preamble of the Constitution invokes the people of the United States. It does not invoke any sort of God. Also, the Constitution forbids any religious test to hold office. A godless person is just as eligible as a godly one. (Article 6, Paragraph 3)

The Founders were well aware of the threats posed by religion/state entanglement; it's what gave the world Kings with "divine right."

The exact phrase was first used in Thomas Jefferson's Letter to the Danbury Baptists, explaining the decision to seperate state and religion:

"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for is faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church and State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties."

James Madison, principal author of the constitution:

"The civil Government, though bereft of everything like an associated hierarchy, possesses the requisite stability, and performs its functions with complete success, whilst the number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people, have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the State." (1819).

Please do some research.

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