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News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyJanuary 14th, 2009
Focus On the Family have announced that they will air video recorded from the Love Won Out ex-gay conference held in Colorado Springs in October of last year. Seven programs were taped and will air on GOD TV over the next three weekends. Highlights include:
These are just three of the seven programs listed. Unfortunately, the most honest talk, in which Exodus International Alan Chambers admits to a very small, select crowd that “I choose to deny what comes naturally to me.” That talk appears to be too frank for public consumption.
GOD TV isn’t well distributed in the U.S. For what that’s worth. GOD TV claims that they reach “almost a half a billion homes worldwide.” I wonder if that “half a billion” is counted using the same methods that Exodus International uses to claim that hundreds of thousands have changed.
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Suricou Raven
January 14th, 2009
I recieve God TV, in the UK. It’s up in the very high number region of cable channels, where people only go when they are desperate for entertainment and all the other channels are showing unwatchable rubbish.
Note that it isn’t part of a subscription plan. Every time I flick there, they seem to be begging for money.
Emproph
January 14th, 2009
Ah yes, the ever soothing sounds of Joe Dallas. You could set his condemnation of homosexuality to music. He just draws you in and makes you want to offer up all your integrity to Christ. In fact the only thing standing between me and a lifetime of hypocrisy and denial is the fact that he’s a divorced and remarried unrepentant adulterer.
So until he repents of his sin, how can I be convinced to repent of mine?
Fortunately, I’m so utterly and thoroughly corrupted by Satan’s destructive influence on my ability to see the difference between love and evil, I don’t even know what sin is.
It’s like with that guy I fell in love with, apparently I was in “hate†with him and didn’t even know it. And to think of all he did to inspire me to open up that children’s cancer ward… All for naught, apparently I’m still going to hell.
Oh how I long to worship a god who’s only
fixationconcern is as to whether or not you bump nasties with your beau…AJD
January 14th, 2009
“GOD TV claims that they reach “almost a half a billion homes worldwide.””
If GOD TV is funded by advertisers, wouldn’t it be illegal to claim that, assuming it’s a false claim? I don’t know what the broadcast counterpart to ABC (Audit Bureau of Circulation) is, but I’d be interested to find out if GOD TV’s claim is actually true. Maybe they’re just counting every subscriber who happens to receive the channel, as opposed to those who actually watch it.
Torontonian
January 15th, 2009
@ AJD
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The statement about GOD TV reaching half a billion homes worldwide doesn’t sound unreasonable.
What they didn’t say is how many of those homes watch GOD TV.
It’s much like another entity advertising itself as being in 85 million American homes. That’s no guarantee that they watch it.
In your daily travels, you will pass many hundreds or thousands of advertising signs and billboards. You don’t read every one of them, do you?
So it is with GOD TV. They’re claiming it’s out there for all and sundry. It’s up to the persons to decide to watch–or not. That’s the fact they don’t tell you.
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