Even though 75 percent of Americans want more Federal Communications Commission (FCC) restrictions on public television content, the FCC is considering dropping current broadcast decency standards that ban explicit profanity and “non-sexual” nudity.

Last week, Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC) CEO and President Penny Nance hand delivered 26,447 “Stop the FCC” petitions to FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai.

We applaud Penny and the 26,447 concerned citizens who are standing with CWALAC for our kids and our future. Click here to add your name to the next round of petitions. The last thing we need is more filth and vulgarity. June 19 is the cut-off date set by the FCC to receive the public’s feedback on its consideration to slash its broadcast decency standards. The FCC is failing America’s families, giving broadcasters unfettered access to our children to peddle their vulgarity in the name of “freedom of speech.”

Don’t let it happen.

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In a year when the advertisements at the Super Bowl descended into what has become an annual cesspool of tastelessness and crudity, the “good” ads won with viewers. According to USA Today’s Ad Meter, viewers voted the “good” ads as the best Super Bowl XLVII commercials.

From highest to lowest scores of ads in the top 10:

7.76 –– Anheuser-Busch Horse and trainer reunited

7.75 –– Tide Miracle Stain

7:43 –– Dodge RAM Farmers/Paul Harvey

7:27 –– Doritos Fashionista Dad

7:20 –– Jeep Families Waiting

In the “Bottom Five” were the two Black Crown party commercials, and at the bottom of the list was the ad that “might have earned the most buzz for the night” –– Go Daddy’s commercial featuring Bar Refaeli kissing (making out with) a tech worker.

It appears that the “party” and “making out” scene is not something that most Americans want to see when their family gathers around the TV set to watch the Super Bowl. One has to wonder if the creative “geniuses” at the corporations understand Americans or the Super Bowl at all.

In a world full of sleazy reality TV shows, like The Jersey Shore and Keeping Up with the Kardashians, it is refreshing to have religious broadcasters providing wholesome programming as an alternative.  And while encouraging programming that promotes honesty, honor, respect, restraint, and charity seems like a no-brainer, if the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has its way, religious broadcasters will find it very hard – and, in some cases, perhaps impossible – to continue these ministries.

For years, the FCC has granted churches and small faith-based organizations an exemption from closed captioning requirements, because the additional financial burden would cripple their ability to produce these programs.  Now the FCC is rescinding all exemptions and allowing only 90 days for programmers to meet these costly requirements.

As special advisor for the FCC, I was there when these waivers were first introduced, and I know that without those exemptions, many churches can’t afford to continue broadcasting.

As President Obama goes around the nation talking about his jobs bill, the FCC, under his direction, is making it harder for businesses and organizations to continue their work.  Or are they forgetting that religious broadcasters employ people?  Anyone can see that in order to make the adjustment to comply with these regulations, organizations will need to make some cuts – deep ones if they want to survive.

Remember that many of these ministries already depend on the contribution of their supporters.  And with the current economic climate, those contributions are getting smaller and smaller; everyone is hurting.  The timing of this couldn’t have been worse.

According to Politico, the decision came after deaf advocacy groups sent complaints to the FCC.  If that is the case, their complaints are understandable.  These churches would love nothing more than to share the Good News with everyone, including the deaf.

But the FCC could have taken any number of measures to encourage and, in fact, make it easier for broadcasters to provide that service.  If they really wanted to help those advocacy groups, they could have at least provided religious broadcasters a lot more time to make these adjustments.

The FCC’s “iron fist” suggests a darker motive.  Why such animosity towards religious groups?

The erratic implementation of these high hurdles creates an undue hardship for these small Christian broadcasters that will be very hard to overcome.  Clearly, the cure is worse than the disease in this case.

I hope the FCC reconsiders this unnecessary move and allows religious broadcasters to continue doing their marvelous work, which contributes much needed aid to our moral and cultural decay.

Truthfully, we should be begging them to continue their work for our country’s sake.