Do you think public television should give free airtime to anti-gay Religious Right propaganda?
From Faithful America:
Neither did two senior employees of Alabama Public Television who objected to airing a TV series produced by right-wing pseudo-historian David Barton -- a Religious Right activist who supports imprisoning gay people.1 But when they spoke up, they were fired by the Republican-controlled Alabama Educational Television Commission.2
Public television is beloved for featuring entertaining, educational content, not hatred and lies. The Republicans on the AETC who are purging dissenting employees think they have the support of the religious community. They need to hear that people of faith reject their partisan agenda.
Tell the Alabama Educational Television Commission: Reinstate the fired staff and keep hateful Religious Right propaganda off public television.
A fringe figure just a few years ago, David Barton has quickly skyrocketed to the center of the conservative movement. He's busy re-writing Texas textbooks to remove references to Martin Luther King, Jr.3, advising politicians like Newt Gingrich and Michele Bachmann, and regularly appearing on shows like Glenn Beck's to argue that all our laws should be based on his right-wing interpretation of the Bible.
Now he's trying to push his views into the mainstream, disguising his hateful misinformation as non-political educational content. We can't let David Barton abuse religion to rewrite history on public television. Let's send a message that people of faith stand for truth, not hateful lies.
Sign the petition here: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2518/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=10894
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