Sears/JCPe
nney Yank Ads from 'SNL' Over 'Djesus Uncrossed' Skit
The American Family Association successfully petitioned Sears
and JCPenney to pull their advertising from Saturday Night Live after
the show mocked Jesus in a sketch called DJesus Uncrossed.
The
comedy show's Feb. 16 episode spoofed the Quentin Tarantino film Django
Unchained by showing a post-resurrection Jesus brandishing a sword and
slaughtering Roman soldiers. The voice-over intoned, "He's risen from
the dead. And he's preaching anything but forgiveness."
AFA contacted Sears and JCPenney after the sketch aired, telling
the chain stores the depiction of Jesus "as a revenge-seeking murderer
is an affront to all people of faith, especially Christians." The group
asked the companies to remove their advertising from both the show and
its website.
Sears withdrew its advertising almost immediately, going so far
as to send a thank-you note to the AFA. JCPenney hesitated, but joined
with Sears when Christians started petitioning them to do just that.
Wildman
is encouraging those who support AFA's move to thank Sears and JCPenney
by calling their headquarters or writing them on Facebook. He said:
As long as corporations
support this kind of offensive material, their sales are going to suffer
as shoppers abandon retailers that support blasphemy. I hope folks can
reinstate their patronage to these stores and that Sears and JCPenney
can stick with the good decisions they have now made. When you embrace
television programming with no morals, you can't possibly embrace the
public you are trying to sell to.
Here's the thing about controversial comedy - it
still needs to be funny. The only people laughing at this twisted sick
SNL skit were atheists and other assorted deviants who long
ago turned their evil backs on anything that's sacred.
On a side note, I think a funny sketch comedy idea for a Django parody would be "Dmango", where enslaved mangos at a smoothie restaurant rise up against their store clerk over-lords and seek revenge on the people who tried to make them into delicious frozen beverages. It's a work in progress.
-W&J's Producer
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