|
Please
pray
Festival of Light, Australia
- Media Release:
5 September 2007
Dear
Friends,
With
a heavy heart I bring before
you two matters for prayer.
The first is for tomorrow
afternoon at about 4.30 -
5 pm (Thursday 6 September).
John Kerrison, a journalist
from the SA ABC "Stateline"
program, will be interviewing
me in Festival of Light office
for an item they are recording
for broadcast on Friday 7
September - on the "mass gay
wedding" which the SA homosexual
lobby is planning for this
year's Feast Festival in November.
It will be no surprise to
many of you that the ABC is
promoting this event at the
Adelaide equivalent of Sydney's
Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
Many
of you will also know that
the ABC "Stateline" program
has set me up in the past
in the hope of humiliating
me (and Christian views on
homosexual behaviour). Please
pray that I will speak the
truth in love and that the
Holy Spirit will give me His
words to explain the real
meaning of marriage - the
lifelong exclusive union of
a man and a woman - which
is not in any sense how the
homosexual lobby envisages
the term.
The
second matter for prayer is
"Californication" - a Channel
10 program of six episodes
screened twice a week (on
Mondays at 9.30 pm, repeated
on Sundays at 10.10 pm) which
is possibly the most serious
breach ever of the Commercial
Television Industry Code of
Practice in terms of deliberate
and extremely offensive blasphemy,
very frequent very coarse
language as well as young
teen-adult sex as one of its
themes.
The program also includes
frequent full frontal nudity,
fairly explicit sex and promiscuity.
I have attached two pdf files
- the complaint I lodged today
with Channel 10 which explains
part of the problem, plus
our information sheet on how
to make a complaint.
You do not have to have seen
this program to lodge a complaint.
We have complained on behalf
of parents whose children
have been affected by comments
about the program made by
other teens in the school
yard.
A
teacher friend said "Californication"
is a hot topic among his 14
year olds. You can imagine
the sorts of things they are
copying and joking about.
It deeply saddens me that
this program is warping so
many vulnerable young minds.
Check
your Bible at Luke 17:1-3.
Download:
How
to complain about a TV Program
(PDF) - FOLA
We
cannot remain silent at a
time like this. But there
is some good news.
Spotlight
- the chain of stores selling
home furnishings and dress
material - was a major sponsor
of "Californication" on Sunday
night, with five ads during
the program.
I phoned their head office
the next day - and they were
most concerned that the ads
had been placed without their
knowledge. They said they
would ask Channel 10 not to
include their ads on "Californication"
again.
That
night, there were no Spotlight
ads on the program.
Holden
and HOLEPROOF
have also pulled their ads
interstate.
I
have contacted some other
Adelaide sponsors without
such dramatic success, but
we praise God that our Queensland
Festival of Light state officer
Geoffrey Bullock has persuaded
several local firms to instruct
Channel 10 to remove their
ads from "Californication".
If you can, lodge your own
written complaint with Channel
10 and ACMA, without waiting
60 days since there have been
serious breaches of the Code.
And
I would greatly value your
prayers tomorrow afternoon.
God bless!
ROS
Mrs
Roslyn Phillips, B Sc Dip
Ed
Research Officer, Festival
of Light Australia
4th Floor, 68 Grenfell Street,
Adelaide SA 5000
Phone 1300 365 965
Email rhp@fol.org.au
Website www.fol.org.au
|
