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Go where they outlaw "blasphemy," Boone.
Like Pakistan.
Pat Boone: The Government Should Outlaw Blasphemy And Punish Saturday Night Live If It Blasphemes Again
Submitted by Brian Tashman on Friday, 4/22/2016 2:05 pm
Conservative musician and activist Pat Boone has been on the warpath against Saturday Night Live ever since the program aired a sketch parodying the right-wings persecution complex, criticizing the shows cast members as Satanic and bound for hell. In an interview last night with Alan Colmes, Boone said that there should be regulations that prohibit blasphemy and that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) should punish networks that air such blasphemous programming. When Colmes asked if he would like the FCC to declare that a show like Saturday Night Live or any other show cant do that kind of humor, Boone agreed: You cannot do blasphemy, yes. Boone, insisting that at least 90 percent of the American public wants this kind of censorship, specifically said that SNL or any program that calls God by some profane name would be in violation of such a blasphemy restriction, and that those who commit the offense should lose their license.
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Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)charlyvi
(6,537 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)God's retribution on his blog. Yup. He has one, but don't bother -- it's the typical egoist me, me, me, with a secondary religious theme, a tiny bit of politics, all projecting the image he wants. Being able to calm down and edit before uploading has it all over live TV.
LiberalArkie
(15,719 posts)k8conant
(3,030 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)Hard to accept, Pat?
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)from all those right wing taking drugs and alcohol and basically cheating on his wife every chance he got - family values = screw your family.
SamKnause
(13,107 posts)lpbk2713
(42,759 posts)Your blood pressure will thank you for it.
And don't presume what others should choose for their entertainment.
"I do believe those prunes are working now."
pangaia
(24,324 posts)I grew up in Teaneck, NJ.
In the late 1950s - early 1960s, I worked a few summers for a landscaping company to help pay for college. We worked 7 am - 6 pm - 6 days a week.
Six NIGHTS a week I played a jazz gig- 10-2 at the Seaway Idlewild Hotel near what was then Idlewild Airport- now JFK..
I mowed Pat Boone's lawn !!!
underpants
(182,826 posts)MinM
(2,650 posts)1975 our football team (Jackson Parkside) just played Ann Arbor Pioneer. So after road games they take us out to eat as usual. We ate at the Bill Knapp's in Ann Arbor and as 'luck' would have it the whole Pat Boone klan had stopped there too with their tour bus.
So long story short one of our assistant coaches asked him to speak to our team. He finally relented and told us a story iirc of overcoming obstacles to achieve our goals. Roger Staubach was the object (or would he be the subject?) of this morality play as I recall.
By the way this would have been in the twilight of Pat's career (going on some 50 years now). However it was just prior to Debbie Boone hitting it big with that godawful [font color=darkred]You Light Up My Life[/font].
http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/story/news/local/2014/10/29/memories-bill-knapps-restaurants-live/18131689/
pangaia
(24,324 posts)We also mowed the grounds for.. ____ POPE, the guy who back then owned THE NATIONAL INQUIRER.
Oh, and I briefly dated Rachael Fast, daughter of Howard Fast.
As well as the daughter of Ruggiero Ricci, the internationally famous concert violinist...
Jim Beard
(2,535 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)Actually I never even heard of her until the post above.
I just pushed the mower back and forth.
It was a "Sensation" Mower.. Old style small small power mower...but the cool thing was, when you reached then end of the lawn, you just flipped the handle over and went back the other way..
God, the things I remember..
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Blaspheme not, lest ye be blasphemed . . . or something . . .
Racist, sexist, anti-LGBTQI, supports war, fights the Cold War and a Birther to boot. What's NOT to like?
stopbush
(24,396 posts).
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)I can so do blasphemy but the funny thing is that I hardly ever want or need to until some assholy prick says I can't.
Why you so worried about a victim-less crime when people do obscene shit to real people every day in your phony god's name?
Iggo
(47,558 posts)And the world will be a little bit smarter.
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)Turin_C3PO
(14,004 posts)Things are sometimes upside down in this cruel world.
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,119 posts)In 1973, he made it public that he didn't let any of his four daughters wear (gasp!) make-up of any kind.
I was glad he wasn't MY father . . . . .
Gothmog
(145,299 posts)2naSalit
(86,646 posts)He defined a look for swarthy used car salesmen for a generation and then some.
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)Blue Dalek
(178 posts)how to live their lives. Get off the cross, build a bridge out of the wood and get over it, Pat! Oh and...fuck you.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Coventina
(27,121 posts)llmart
(15,540 posts)Hey, Pat. Turn off the boob tube and get out your bible if you don't like what's on and leave the rest of us alone.
I highly doubt 90% of the people want SNL gone because it's been on now for how many years??? Someone must be watching it and liking it.
He's an ass.
sofa king
(10,857 posts)This is Justin Bieber, sixty years from now.
peabody
(445 posts)Mike Nelson
(9,959 posts)...this is America! You might be happier in a country with government controlled religion.
frogmarch
(12,154 posts)I cringe to recall that when I was in the 5th grade, I thought Pat Boone was keen. I wore my white buck shoes with pride, powdering them every day with baby powder to keep them looking clean.
Archae
(46,335 posts)Made those songs for "whites only."
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)So while Boone was making bank on whitewashing others' talent, he was also unintentionally opening up a lot of doors for them.
Bigmack
(8,020 posts)pressbox69
(2,252 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)they have the blasphemy laws he's jonesying for.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)"Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated out of nothing, blasphemy is the most
amazingwith obscenity and indecent exposure fighting it out for second and third place."
whistler162
(11,155 posts)when it got to civilized. Go west.
DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)There...I did my best to blaspheme Pat's fake version of a god. I'm mostly agnostic, but on the days I can imagine a higher power, that higher power is nowhere near as weak and petty as Pat Boone's useless god.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Jim Beard
(2,535 posts)Omaha Steve
(99,658 posts)He didn't like me either.
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