fired over prayer

[big_bad_buff]

After three months as executive director of the California-based Parents Television Council, a conservative media watchdog group, Dennis Mansfield has been fired. Mansfield tells the Idaho Statesman that it was over a Christian prayer.

Mansfield said he had invited Ted Baehr, chairman of the Christian Film and Television Commission, to offer a prayer during a November 14 fund-raiser and awards ceremony.

Baehr prayed for the healing and recovery of PTC president Brent Bozell, who had suffered a heart attack a week earlier. But Baehr´s prayer offended some of the non-Christians in the audience when he invoked the name of Jesus Christ, Mansfield said.

"It was like a prayer you pray over the dinner table," Mansfield said. "That´s nice in Idaho. It´s just not nice in Hollywood."

"I think it´s a case of extreme bigotry," said Baehr.

Mansfield says he was told about his termination two days before Thanksgiving by e-mail.

Mansfield joined the PTC having served as the CEO of Idaho Family Forum, a non-profit, public policy organization. Mansfield left Idaho in September to accept the position at the Parents Television Council

 

[big_bad_buff]

back in the day they would burn witches at the steak, now they have little warlock kids flying around on brooms in the movies...what's next? world wide persecution of christians? OOOPS!! did i say that. oh yeah that's been prophesied.

 

[2Thick]

He deserved it. What type of an egocentric person think that they have the right to bring their religion to a nonreligious forum?

 

[big_bad_buff]

He deserved it. What type of an egocentric person think that they have the right to bring their religion to a nonreligious forum?

Exactly my point. he deserves it now days. this would have been perfectly expectable just a few years ago. ONE NATION UNDER GOD? this is my point, america is giving god the boot. and shit is gonna hit the fan.

 

[IanStuart]

He will now have more time to hide in the closet masterbaiting to pictures of jesus christ. He should be happy.

 

[2Thick]

Exactly my point. he deserves it now days. this would have been perfectly expectable just a few years ago. ONE NATION UNDER GOD? this is my point, america is giving god the boot. and shit is gonna hit the fan.

Prayer is a personal thing. Jesus was the first person to bring that to Christianity.

It is not something to be forced upon people. It is something that must be found through self-discovery.

 

[big_bad_buff]

Prayer is a personal thing. Jesus was the first person to bring that to Christianity.

It is not something to be forced upon people. It is something that must be found through self-discovery.

of course it shouldn't be forced. but you make it sound like people were tide to chairs and forced to watch them pray on a tv channel?. was the remote control out of reach? remember not long ago when we prayed in schools, what heppend?

what about religious people? what about all the witch craft, cursing, nudity, language, etc on tv? (contradiction) it's ok for this, but if it's religious!!! not a chance, proving my point even further. removing god, and religion little by little from our society.

 

[2Thick]

of course it shouldn't be forced. but you make it sound like people were tide to chairs and forced to watch them pray on a tv channel?. was the remote control out of reach? remember not long ago when we prayed in schools, what heppend?

what about religious people? what about all the witch craft, cursing, nudity, language, etc on tv? (contradiction) it's ok for this, but if it's religious!!! not a chance, proving my point even further. removing god, and religion little by little from our society.

Who were in the audience? I thought that the people in the audience complained. Unless it was an audience full of people who agreed with the prayer, it should not have happened.