# Go to hell, American Family Association! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 4, 2006, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-to-hell-american-family-association/371397 "2006-09-04T13:56:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-to-hell-american-family-association/371397/41 "2006-09-10T23:08:36Z")
[QUOTE=Baker] Spielberg said that he couldn’t make the movie “softer” without being true to the horror that went on, and that **parents have to make the decision whether or not to let their kids watch**. His own kids, he said, of elementary school age, had not seen the film, but he thought highschool kids could. [/QUOTE] Exactly. Abd why can’t this be the standard line for all movies, rather than just over-rated Spielberg films? Why do we need to cut and slash them all for TV just to cave in to the morons at the AFA and other idiotic social conservatives? ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-to-hell-american-family-association/371397/42 "2006-09-10T23:48:14Z")
[QUOTE=mhendo] Exactly. Abd why can’t this be the standard line for all movies, rather than just over-rated Spielberg films? Why do we need to cut and slash them all for TV just to cave in to the morons at the AFA and other idiotic social conservatives? [/QUOTE] Our country - for some reason I will probably never understand - coddles the lowest common denominator. Not the highest or even the middle. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2006, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-to-hell-american-family-association/371397/43 "2006-09-11T00:42:27Z")
What I really don’t get is that, not counting cable, I can choose between this thing, football, Simpsons/American Dad/Family Guy, CBS’s thing on 9/11, and The Reptiles/Mystery. I hate these sorts of idiots. Either watch something else or don’t watch anything at all. You do have free control of your TV and all. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2006, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-to-hell-american-family-association/371397/44 "2006-09-11T00:56:45Z")
[QUOTE=Cisco] Our country - for some reason I will probably never understand - coddles the lowest common denominator. Not the highest or even the middle. [/QUOTE] Its simple: God hates us. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2006, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-to-hell-american-family-association/371397/45 "2006-09-11T01:17:29Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] If you cannot say ‘fuck’ when a plane hits a skyscraper and is burning out of control, then when can you? [/QUOTE] [When you’re the vice president.](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3699-2004Jun24.html) (Site requires free registration). ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2006, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-to-hell-american-family-association/371397/46 "2006-09-11T01:45:50Z")
[QUOTE=F. U. Shakespeare] [When you’re the vice president.](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3699-2004Jun24.html) (Site requires free registration). [/QUOTE] No, you can’t even say it then. Don’t you remember the brace faced red headed girl at the DNC lecturing us about how horrible it was that the “Vice President said a bad word”? (And I maintain it was _that_ which hurt Kerry so bad and _not_ the Swiftboat nonsense.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-to-hell-american-family-association/371397.md?page=2)