Last updated: 12/10/2004 at 10 AM Have an update? Send it to Tony Lewis

December 10, 2004
UCC News Release: Why Miami?
FCC complaints to deny licenses must be local, UCC leaders explain

December 9, 2004
UCC News Release: United Church of Christ files petition with FCC over networks' refusal of church advertisement

December 8, 2004
Newsday: Some stations air United Church of Christ ads networks rejected

December 6, 2004
Newsday: Networks wimp out on church commercial

San Francisco Chronicle, Tim Goodman: You’re soaking in it
(comments begin about half-way through the piece beginning with “Pretend this is a make-believe press conference”)

December 5, 2004
National Public Radio: Policy on Gays Divides United Church of Christ

December 4, 2004

Credit: Bob Englehart, Hartford Courant Dec. 4, 2004. Click graphic for full size cartoon.

Arkansas Democrat Gazette: Pastors don't see why ad rejected

Boston Globe: Why the big deal over church's ad?
(opinion piece by Nancy S. Taylor, minister and president of the Massachusetts Conference)

December 3, 2004
Credit: Jeff Darcy,
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Dec. 3, 2004.
Used with permission.
Click graphic for full size cartoon on ucc.org news site.

Fort Collins Coloradoan: Rejection of ad stirs emotions at church

Middletown (CT) Press: Networks decline UCC ads

Oregon Daily Emerald: Bush, can I say censorship?

San Bernardino Sun: Church TV spot denial raises ire

Group Asks Networks to Remove Hummer Ads in Wake of NBC and CBS Banning Church Ads

National Council of Churches: Faith-Based Communicators React to CBS, NBC Nixing of Church Ad

UCC News Release: UCC Conference Ministers meet with local CBS-TV affiliate reporter in Orlando, Florida

December 2, 2004
In the Conference
ANG Newspapers: Controversial ads create rifts between church, networks (Oakland, Hayward, Fremont)

KPIX (CBS channel 5): Syphilis Ad and Church Ad Both Banned from Broadcast

National
Christianity Today, Weblog: The Story Behind the TV Networks' UCC Ad 'Ban'

Globe Gazette (Iowa): Church members react to network rejection of TV ad campaign

Madison Capital Times, John Nichols: Church ad 'too controversial' for networks

Kansas City Star: Church ad ignites a new moral debate

National Public Radio: Some TV Networks Refuse to Run Church Ad

Washington Post: Two Networks Bar Religious Commercial

Yahoo News: Networks Bar Church Ads That Welcome Gays

UCC News Release: Only recently did UCC learn of networks' ultimate refusal of church ads

December 1, 2004
In the Conference
KRON 4, San Francisco: Rev. Kyle Lovett, pastor of St. John's UCC interviewed.

San Francisco Chronicle: United Church of Christ says CBS, NBC reject ad over support of gay couples

National
The Advocate: United Church of Christ says CBS, NBC rejected its ad

CNN Newsnight with Aaron Brown (transcript) (or read annotated transcript)

CNN Money: CBS, NBC ban church ad inviting gays

Elites TV: NBC and CBS Reject United Church of Christ Ad

Media Matters for America: CBS, NBC rejected United Church of Christ ad as "too controversial," despite networks' past airing of advocacy ads

The Nation: Love One Another? Not on NBC, CBS

People for the American Way: Tell CBS & NBC That Inclusion Is Not Too Controversial!

The Progressive: CBS, NBC, Say Yes to Mud and No to Love salon.com: United Church of Christ says CBS, NBC reject its ad

Seattle Post Intelligencer: Church recruiting new members with TV ad (Associated Press)

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