Good Lord! Another blog? Oh, I couldn't resist that. I just discovered that Beliefnet.com now has a blog, with contributors like Beliefnet columnist Deborah Caldwell. (It looks like a continuous scroll.)
And speaking of Deborah Caldwell, she posts about the outrage among the Christian Right over the not-quite-nekkid boob at the Super Bowl (02/03/04 post titled "Conservative Christian Outrage at Superbowl Stunt"). She says: "Conservative Christian organizations, like many Americans, were not amused by the Janet Jackson-Justin Timberlake Super Bowl breast expo. But whereas the FCC called the stunt 'classless' and 'crass,' the Christian groups are expressing their outrage in a much more extreme fashion."
She then provides some links, including the Traditional Values Coalition, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, Focus on the Family and Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Conventions' Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission.
They're all agreed they were shocked, shocked to see a woman's almost-naked breast. None of them seem to have noticed the pasty. Maybe some of the spokespeople haven't actually seen a woman's breast before and think they always look like that.
Okay, since I started down this path, I might as well give some of the quotes, skin-crawling and depressing as they might be. Richard Land thinks this whole MTV, rock-and-roll, scene with all that, you know, dancing and stuff is evil: “When you contract your halftime show out to an extremely raunchy, push-the-envelope conglomerate like MTV, whose moral compass has been totally demagnetized, you get what you paid for—an R-rated, hedonistic exhibition of human depravity.”
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