Mitch Haaseth) Aidan Quinn
in The Book of Daniel
"The American Family Association (up until 1988 the Federation for Decency), which has recently ramped up its efforts to target TV programming it finds offensive, is calling on its members to e-mail NBC and their local NBC affiliate asking them not to air The Book of Daniel, and to put affiliate contact numbers and station call letters in their church bulletins."
Well, Christmas is over. So the Bill O'Reilly-Fox News-generated, ratings boosting "War on Christmas" is also over. I had been wondering what they would do next to make their troops feel discriminated against and keep them at the ready to strike any newly spied enemy. Then I realized, they were ready with the war on The Book of Daniel, an otherwise innocuous TV show, to which I would never have even paid any attention, had the American Family Association not entered the picture.
The Book of Daniel "is an example of that network's anti-Christian bigotry," said the homophobic bigots in the AFA.
But it sounds like a hoot: according to the official newspaper of the right wing - the New York Post - Rev. Daniel Webster...is an 'unconventional' Episcopalian Minister who speaks with a hip, modern-day Christ...and is battling an addiction to prescription painkillers while also battling the church hierarchy. According to the AFA, he also has a wife who 'depends heavily on her midday martinis" and "a 23-year-old homosexual Republican son, a 16-year-old daughter who is a drug dealer and a 16-year-old adopted son who is having sex with the bishop's daughter" and "at the office [the rev's] lesbian secretary is sleeping with his sister-in-law."
Sounds a bit like the evil twin of Seventh Heaven, doesn't it?
This all reminds me of Terry Rakolta's 1989 war on Fox's Married with Children which put the then-new network on the map and made the show a hit.
According to Juiceenewsdaily: The writer for the program is Jack Kenny, a practicing homosexual who describes himself as being “in Catholic recovery,” and is interested in Buddhist teachings about reincarnation and isn’t sure exactly how he defines God and/or Jesus. “I don’t necessarily know that all the myth surrounding him (Jesus) is true,” he said.
It will be interesting to see how long it takes before NBC is intimidated and The Book of Daniel slinks away into another tv dimension with its tail between its legs.
For anyone who is interested The Book of Daniel premieres Jan. 6 at 9 p.m. EST with two back-to-back episodes, before moving to its regular 10 p.m. slot the following week.
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