I couldn't make this up.

Published on June 3, 2010 By dan_l In Blogging

Comedy Central's "JC" is currently in development, which means it's still a couple steps away from becoming a Go project. The show is about Jesus trying to live as a regular guy in New York City and wanting to escape the shadow of his "powerful but apathetic father" (more details here). With Comedy Central having recently censored frequent parenting group target "South Park" for trying to portray the Prophet Muhammad, some Christian leaders see the development of a Jesus cartoon as exhibiting an offensive double standard.

CARB will hold its first press conference on Thursday to urge advertisers not to support the project, should it ever hit the air (why, it's like some kind of network development slate contraception!).

Who's CARB, you ask? Why - a venerable all star team of religious loons:

Brent Bozell (president, Media Research Center), Tony Perkins (president, Family Research Council), Michael Medved (talk radio host), Bill Donohue (president, Catholic League), Rabbi Daniel Lapin (American Alliance of Jews and Christians) and, of course, Tim Winter (president, Parents Television Council) are joining forces to form the Citizens Against Religious Bigotry.

Absolutely, positively incompatible with modern life.

Comments

Dr Guy

on Jun 03, 2010

Loons, or offended people? The story (the real one) is that instead of issuing fatwas and killing cartoonists, they are voicing their opinions. They do not like it.

Just because something is offensive does not mean you have to like it.

CharlesCS

on Jun 03, 2010

Hey, Comedy Central are just cowards, plain and simple. They know Christians will not go terrorist on them (maybe one here or there perhaps) so they don't care how much they cry them a river about this JC show. But when it comes to terrorist and their "don't think just act" mentality, I wouldn't blame them for being afraid of getting bombed. It's pure cowardice, plain and simple. Comedy Central showed it's yellow stripe faster than Cartman could say "Kyle's mom's a bitch".

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