After airing "The Book of Daniel" last week, a television station in Little Rock, Arkansas is receiving hate mail, hate calls and now death threats. Yes ladies and gentlemen, the Christian 'right' has lost it yet again. Are they planning on killing in the name of God or what?

Security guards are now protecting the station from these threats. Little Rock's NBC affiliate refused to air the show's premiere Friday after pressure from the American Family Association and area pastors. WB42, a WB affiliate then agreed to run the series.

Station spokesperson Gary Robbins defends the decision to run the series and says despite the threats there are no plans to cancel it.

"We've had hate mail, we've had hate phone calls... but there's no profanity in this show, there's no indecency, there's no nudity," he said.

Monday, the self-proclaimed 'American Family Association' called on its members to keep up the pressure on other affiliates across the nation. In an email from AFA, their PR machine told the group's followers also to put pressure on the show's advertisers.

"The Book of Daniel" features one of primetime's few openly gay male characters, has a lesbian supporting character and is written by a gay screenwriter.

I watched the show... it's not bad, it's not great though. Why doesn't the AFA just boycott the show instead of threatening to kill people over airing this show. It just doesn't seem very Christian... does it? Hmmm.

Posted by Bryan Harding

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