They Come To Your House!
Will Campbell at blogging.la has written a story in which he rents "Birth of a Nation" from Netflix, and then discovers that his home is surrounded by pickets. Here's an excerpt:
Duly thwarted in my attempt to see D.W. Griffith's landmark "Birth of a Nation" Monday night at the Silent Movie Theatre by civil rights protesters...I decided I'd just order up the DVD from Netflix and satisfy my armchair cinema historian jones by watching it in the quiet picket-line-free comfort of my living room.
Or not. Somehow word got out, for when I arrived post-work yesterday afternoon there they were, the same people who were in front of the Fairfax Avenue theater Monday night and quoted in today's L.A. Times article about the show's cancellation. Carrying signs that read "Rationalize Censorship Now! Ask Us How!" and "We Violate Your Rights So You Don't Have To!" they marched back and forth along the sidewalk in front of the house....
This is reminiscient of an old Saturday Night Live sketch (which I never saw) in which the Supreme Court went into a couple's bedroom and made various rulings on the activities they performed.
Even from a fundamentalist perspective, there are no absolutes on this issue. Some people may be perfectly capable of watching a Disney film, while others might object to their Satanic nature. And who knows - maybe someone will watch "Debbie Does Dallas" for the plot and the acting...
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