{"id":9087,"date":"2011-10-31T18:23:49","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T22:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=9087"},"modified":"2011-10-31T18:30:54","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T22:30:54","slug":"fcc-cracks-down-on-religious-broadcasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/10\/fcc-cracks-down-on-religious-broadcasters.html","title":{"rendered":"FCC cracks down on religious broadcasters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Watchwoman:<\/strong><\/span> FCC cracks down on religious broadcasters by forcing them to comply with a rule that they have to provide closed captioning on their TV broadcasts. \u00a0Here’s the danger in that. \u00a0The problems never begin with the extremist of measures — they end there. \u00a0They come incrementally. \u00a0How do you eat an elephant? \u00a0One bite at a time. \u00a0How do you get religious broadcasting off the air? \u00a0One rule at a time. \u00a0The FCC has no business telling churches they have to have closed captioning on their TV broadcasts. \u00a0It’s fascism. In fact, the government has no business of any kind\u00a0interfering\u00a0with the Church of Jesus Christ at all. \u00a0The reason that Churches are tax exempt is because they are thought of as a foreign embassy. \u00a0The Church’s home is NOT on planet earth. \u00a0It has a heavenly home and the only Head of the Christian Church is Jesus Christ! \u00a0No man-made government official, politician or the FCC. \u00a0The government saying anything to the church to rule over it is the same as if the government tried to tell the Russian diplomats how to run their Russian embassy in Washington DC. \u00a0The Russian embassy’s grounds are considered Russian\u00a0territory\u00a0and the US government has no jurisdiction there. \u00a0It’s the same with the Christian Church and it’s grounds. \u00a0The US government and all it’s rule makers have no jurisdiction there. \u00a0It comes under the Heading of Jesus\u00a0Christ only — like a foreign embassy. \u00a0The FCC may try to bring it’s wrath on the Christian Church of Jesus Christ, but the FCC will\u00a0incur\u00a0the wrath of God! \u00a0God is not going to like anyone dictating to His Church, His Property and His Dominion on Planet Earth. \u00a0The FCC better look out! \u00a0They have God’s wrath coming upon them! \u00a0God wins every argument. \u00a0So the FCC better rethink it’s stupid and dictatorial position quickly! Don’t be\u00a0deceived\u00a0for a moment that it is about the\u00a0government (FCC)\u00a0being a nice-guy so that the deaf will have more access, it’s about Christians having less! \u00a0Like Ronald Reagan said, government is not the solution, government is the problem! \u00a0\u25ac \u00a0Donna Calvin<\/strong><\/p>\n

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By BROOKS BOLIEK<\/p>\n

If a church broadcasts the word of God on TV without closed captions, it risks incurring the wrath of the FCC.<\/p>\n

Some 300 small- to medium-sized churches can expect letters from the commission within the next few days explaining why their closed captioning exemptions were lifted for TV shows like \u201cPower in the Word\u201d and \u201cProducing Kingdom Citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n

The FCC has been mailing the letters for the past few days to churches from Maine to California, explaining that the hundreds of exemptions are now rescinded and giving the programmers 90 days to reapply.<\/p>\n

The churches were granted FCC exemptions from the closed captioning requirement under a 2006 commission decision known as the \u201cAnglers Order\u201d for the Anglers for Christ Ministries program that had argued for exemption from the rules.<\/p>\n

While the FCC\u2019s Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau used the Anglers Order as the model to grant at least 298 other exemptions, the full commission overturned that decision Oct. 20 after objections were raised from a coalition of organizations for the deaf and hard of hearing.<\/p>\n

The churches may still be eligible to win an exemption from the rules if they can prove they can\u2019t afford closed captioning, but they now have to make their case individually.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a process that went awry,\u201d said Craig Parshall, senior vice president of the National Religious Broadcasters, an international association of Christian communicators. \u201cNow, we are going back to Square One.\u201d<\/p>\n

Advocacy groups for the deaf contend that the bureau erred when it granted the exemptions en masse because that created a virtual blanket exemption for nonprofit organizations. Under the closed captioning law, programmers can win an exemption if they can prove that the cost of the captioning will cause an undue economic hardship.<\/p>\n

The groups wrote to the FCC asking commissioners to overrule the bureau order arguing that the order \u201cimproperly and unilaterally established a new class of exempt programming.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the commission\u2019s decision has an immediate impact on churches across the country, it isn\u2019t directed at religious organizations in particular, Parshall said. Small- and medium-sized churches just happened to apply for exemptions under the closed captioning law\u2019s exception for TV shows where paying for captioning is an undue economic burden, Parshall explained.<\/p>\n

Advocates for the deaf said they were pleased the commission was taking action on the issue, and hoped that it would make more programming accessible to the deaf and hearing impaired.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, we look forward to viewing more TV shows that were not captioned before,\u201d said Jim House, spokesman for Telecommunications for the Deaf Inc. \u201cIt is our hope that those producers affected by the decision would see the positive benefits of making their shows accessible to more and more viewers and find that it is the right thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Religious broadcasters want to reach the deaf community, but requiring churches across the country to close caption their TV programs could force the programming off the air, Parshall said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe our message needs to get out to the deaf and disabled communities,\u201d Parshall explained. \u201cAll we want is a sensible regulatory structure that recognizes the plight of the small Christian broadcaster.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more: http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1011\/67260.html#ixzz1cOlO3a6f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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