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(WORLDNETDAILY.COM) Family advocates are revving up against Fox Television and NASCAR after a driver’s crew chief uttered the S-word during a nationally broadcast race Sunday. The obscene word was aired during a car-to-crew conversation between driver Martin Truex, Jr. and his crew chief, Kevin Manion, at the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tenn. A frustrated Manion told his driver, “We missed the set-up today. It (the car) was a piece of s—.” Fox announcer Mike Joy offered an immediate on-air apology, stating, “We apologize for the language on the part of Martin Truex’s crew chief, but the frustration is evident this late in the race when things happen.”
A March 15 ruling by the FCC declared: “The ‘S-word’ is a vulgar excretory term so grossly offensive to members of the public that it amounts to a nuisance and is presumptively profane. Like the ‘F-word,’ it is one of the most offensive words in the English language, the broadcast of which is likely to shock the viewer and disturb the peace and quiet of the home.”
Homosexual activists have seized upon the fact that the Tennessee Marriage Amendment (TMA) is one of the weakest versions of any amendments to date. The wording of the TMA was addressed in a recent article by a pro-homosexual newspaper. The article lauds the TMA for not being as “draconian” as other amendments proposed in different states. According to the article, the TMA “contains no language suggesting that other forms of recognition for unmarried couples are forbidden.” This admission from the homosexual activists is evidence that an assault on the traditional family will still come to Tennessee (albeit using other terms than “marriage”) even if the marriage amendment is approved by Tennessee voters.
The decision is binding in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee
In an astounding return to judicial interpretation of the actual text of the United States Constitution, a unanimous panel of the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has issued an historic decision declaring that “the First Amendment does not demand a wall of separation between church and state.†In upholding a Kentucky county’s right to display the Ten Commandments, the panel called the American Civil Liberties Union’s repeated claims to the contrary “extra-constitutional†and “tiresome.â€
State lawmakers have given final approval to a proposed amendment to the State Constitution that will define marriage as the exclusive union between a man and a woman. The proposal now goes before Tennessee voters in November of 2006.
Unfortunately, the Tennessee Marriage Amendment (TMA), as it is proposed, will have little effect in accomplishing the ultimate goal of preserving one-man, one-woman marriage. [-more-]
CLICK HERE to tell lawmakers the Marriage Amendment should have banned “civil unions,” too.
Family Policy Network State Director Ron Shank wrote to more than a thousand supporters throughout Tennessee on Friday, explaining reasons why he wants the current marriage amendment proposals here be withdrawn or fail. [-more-]
