Blunt Takes on Christian Persecutors at MPAA

This is ridiculous.

House Majority Whip Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and other lawmakers are demanding explanations after hearing complaints that the movie "Facing the Giants" was rated PG instead of G due to religious content.

"This incident raises the disquieting possibility that the MPAA considers exposure to Christian themes more dangerous for children than exposure to gratuitous sex and violence," Blunt said in a letter to MPAA Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Dan Glickman.

That is the most stupid and moronic thing I've read yet this morning. Since when did films with gratuitious sex and violence get rated G? What kind of fucked-up logic is this? Poor Christians always being discriminated against by Hollywood. I think that the MPAA does a good job overall in applying ratings. Take a recent film filled with gratuitous, disgusting, sadistic violence (as well as anti-Semitism) - The Passion of the Christ. It received an R rating. If Hollywood were to make a mini-series depicting the Bible accurately, there would be a country ton of gratuitous violence and sex.

And, as if the hearings about steroids in baseball weren't a big enough waste of time and money, there's the Congresswoman who wants to hold hearings on this non-issue.

"I'm not satisfied," said Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., who attended the meeting with Blunt. "We probably will want to revisit this ratings process to have some commonality in the standards that exist for movies, videos and video games."

Blackburn said she wants the House Energy and Commerce Committee to hold hearings on the issue later this year.

Gas is $3 a gallon, the Defense Department halted the installation of wind farms and she wants the House Energy and Commerce Committee to talk about movie ratings?! You folks wasted enough time trying to amend the Constitution to outlaw flag-burning. Can't appease the Pat Robertson's of the world by enshrining discrimination against homesexuals in the Constitution? I guess the MPAA is now a scapegoat.

Movies and video games are NOT the burning issues of our time.