{"id":3867,"date":"2005-03-31T09:59:23","date_gmt":"2005-03-31T14:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/3867.html"},"modified":"2005-03-31T09:59:23","modified_gmt":"2005-03-31T14:59:23","slug":"is-nothing-sacred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/is-nothing-sacred\/","title":{"rendered":"Is nothing sacred?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are certain American institutions in which secular liberals are supposed to reign supreme. Not many, of course, but a couple.<\/p>\n

Alas, even the last bastion of this dying breed appears to be under siege<\/a>. From our friends at James Dobson’s Focus on the Family:<\/p>\n

A Hollywood project that has successfully trained Christian writers to work from the inside of show business has set its sights on Tinseltown’s executive offices.<\/p>\n

Act One, Incorporated’s new executive program offers an MBA-style curriculum with veteran entertainment executives as instructors and mentors, according to Todd Coleman, the new initiative’s director. The first class, to meet this summer, will number just 10.<\/p>\n

The program’s goal is to find young Christians who have great management skills and interests and turn them toward Hollywood. <\/p>\n

“People who might have planned to go into politics, or corporate business in New York,” Coleman said, “instead come out here and suddenly get to live out their passion, which is movies and entertainment.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A few years ago, Paul Weyrich, chairman the Free Congress Research and a leading right-wing leader for years, wrote a controversial essay<\/a> imploring Christian conservatives to give up on mainstream America altogether and create an “alternate structure of parallel cultural institutions.” Weyrich pointed specifically to the entertainment industry as “a bottomless sewer, inverting good and evil and flooding the land with sex, violence and degradation of every sort.”<\/p>\n

Now that the religious right is planning, in Dobson’s word, to “infiltrate” Hollywood, I guess Weyrich’s plan never quite worked out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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