Fox refuses to comment after guest calls for Satanists to be gunned down

[DonViejo]

By Scott Kaufman
Monday, January 13, 2014 9:33 EST

The Satanic Temple has issued a press release demanding that Fox Business News publicly apologize for the remarks made by one of its commentators.

On January 9, 2014, one of the participants in Fox Business New’s “Mensa Meeting,” Bernard McGuirk, said that members of the Satanic Temple who want to erect a monument in Oklahoma City should be executed.

“They should be able to put the statue up, and then they should be shot right next to it, and then we take it down,” McGuirk said.


Lawyers for the Satanic Temple say that “[s]uch incitement to violence is reckless and possibly criminal. Advocacy of the murder of American citizens based on their religious beliefs is intolerable and sickening. For [Fox Business] to disseminate such a position as part of a televised debate on a national network strikes at the heart of this country’s founding principles and potentially places the Temple’s members in imminent danger.”

Though the Temple’s complaint may seem unnecessary, many believe that Fox New’s Bill O’Reilly’s inflammatory rhetoric incited the murderer of Dr. George Tiller. Given the history Fox News viewers have of acting upon such calls to violence, the Satanic Temple wants the network to make it clear that violence carried out against a person — even a member of the Satanic Temple — for his or her religious beliefs is unacceptable.

As their lawyers write, “[o]ur client requests that the Fox News Network immediately issue The Satanic Temple an apology for broadcasting a call for the murder of its members, who simply desire to be treated equally with every other religion in this country. In addition, they would like to see a public reprimand of Bernard McGuirk.”

Satanic Temple spokesman Lucien Greaves also took offense at the panel’s characterization of his organization as one that “promote[s] evil” and is “anti-Christian.” In a statement, he said that “Even the most basic and cursory perusal of our website could have served to correct these panelists. It is unconscionable that a news panel would express opinions without doing any research. Our’s is a philosophy that is meant to enrich lives and encourage benevolence. It is reprehensible that a nationally televised commentator could call for our execution regarding any item of disagreement, much less based upon entirely imagined presumptions.”

Raw Story contacted Fox Business News about the “various defamatory remarks,” and was told by a spokesperson that the network “was not about to dignify Satanicists [sic] by commenting on their nonsense.”

Watch the entire exchange between members of the “Mensa Meeting” below.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/13/fox-refuses-to-comment-after-guest-calls-for-satanists-to-be-gunned-down/

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Complete article posted with the permission of Raw Story

[JaneyVee]

1. Ladies & gentlemen, the Satanic Temple has a higher moral ground than FOX News.

[CBGLuthier]

2. at least Satanists admit they worship evil.

Unlike Fox.

[kelliekat44]

3. +1,000 nt

[billh58]

4. Actually, Satanists do not

"worship" evil, but quite the opposite. See their website for an explanation of Satanic beliefs:

http://www.thesatanictemple.com/

OTOH, Fox Snooze and their right-wing followers bathe themselves in, and embrace evil in so many different anti-social ways, that it is fair to say that they worship evil.

[redgreenandblue]

5. depends on the type of Satanist...

I consider myself an agnostic Satanist (meaning I don't "literally" believe in Satan but I believe that Satan symbolizes positive things within the framework of Christianity), but I don't share the beliefs of Anton Szandor LaVey which are essentially Randian.

The basic premise of Satanism, as I understand it, is embracing the "original sin" as a positive thing. Basically it boils down to making your own decisions on what is good and what is evil rather than following a code of commandments. In a way it is a form of Anarchism. It is also humanistic, since it elevates humans, rather than gods, to the highest authority on questions of morality.

[Lunacee_2013]

6. Well, so much for that whole "do unto others" stuff...

I forgot, where did that come from again?

[hootinholler]

7. Wait, Fox has a show named Mensa Meeting?