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ALEXANDRIA, VA - "CBS's timing is abysmal, given that this
week marks the one-year anniversary of the massacre of five Amish
girls and the wounding of five others in a Pennsylvania school on
October 2, 2006," said Robert Knight, Director of MRC's Culture and
Media Institute.
"The makers of Cold Case seem to have a fetish for linking
Christians and murder," Knight said. "Last Sunday, they smeared
Bible-believing abstinence club teens as sex-obsessed,
stone-throwing murderers. This Sunday, they're offering up a plot
about an Amish girl who is murdered while on 'rumspringa,' the
period in which the Amish allow teens to explore worldly ways before
committing to an Amish way of life.
"We're not accusing the Cold Case makers of being
insensitive," Knight said. "We're accusing them of acting hatefully
toward religious believers. Regardless of how the plot unfolds this
Sunday, they might have waited to run this piece another week. But
heck, why wait? So what if the Amish are mourning? If you can make
youth pastors out to be masturbating perverts and portray an
abstinence club as a coven of stone-wielding murderers, as they did
on September 30, why not run an Amish murder theme this week of all
weeks?
"CBS still owes an apology to Christians, youth pastors, and
abstinence educators for last week's abominable program. After
Sunday, they can add the Amish community for exploiting them for
shock value," Knight said.
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