Cross-posted from Bold Faith Type
Continuing their campaign demanding that MSNBC stop booking hate-group leader Tony Perkins on their news programming, Faithful America has produced an ad to educate the network's viewers about the hateful lies the Family Research Council President tells about LGBT people and how frequently the cable network puts him on air.
Shamefully, MSNBC rejected the ad. After Faithful America attempted to purchase time to run the ad on the network, a representative responded:
Thank you for providing the ad and substantiation. Our policy states that we have sole discretion to accept or reject an ad based on its appropriateness. In this instance we are rejecting the ad.
Michael Sherrard, head of Faithful America, responded:
Clearly MSNBC doesn't want its viewers to know the truth about one of their frequent guests. If network executives consider Tony Perkins' false and hateful rhetoric about gays and lesbians inappropriate for an ad, then he shouldn't have any place on their programming.
Earlier this month Faithful America, Bishop Gene Robinson and a delegation of clergy leaders
delivered 20,000 petition signatures to MSNBC headquarters trying to raise this same issue. MSNBC responded to that event by featuring Perkins on air last week.