If the American Family Association thinks it can get Desperate Housewives, one of the most popular shows currently on television, taken off the air with a boycott of sponsors they should think again.  DH is the fourth most popular show on television, averaging 23 million viewers this season.  If the AFA gets a gets a few sponsors to leave there will be many more waiting to fill the vacancy.  I’m a passive viewer of DH, but it’s arguably a big hit all over the country — especially in Red States it seems — and has been sold all over the world where it is also a huge hit.

I love the response by Don Wildmon when asked why he and his ilk don’t just turn off the television:  "…if we don’t like drunk drivers on the highway, to stay off the highway?"  Yeah, sure, because drinking and driving, which can cause death and destruction, is the same as an offensive television show.  IDIOT!

Via AMERICAblog.

That is the headline of an AP article detailing how the Supreme Court, in an 8-0 ruling, held that federal extortion and racketeering laws cannot be used to ban demonstrations.  Here’s the key word:  demonstrations.  This headline makes it sound as if the anti-abortion cabal won a major victory, but that’s just not the case.  Freedom of speech and assembly won here.  I may not like the way in which anti-abortion activists attempt to shame those seeking abortions, but they have the right, just like everyone else, to assemble and express their views.  If you read further down in this article you’ll see that several groups, including the AFL-CIO, joined in the case because they feared the repercussions.