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After getting "hundreds" of complaints about NBC's Book of Daniel, in which the pill-poppingest Episcopal holy man in primetime navigates a complicated world with the help of a Cool Jesus only he can see, a station in Terre Haute, IN, has decided not to show the series' premiere on Friday. Reports Broadcasting & Cable:

WTWO’s move is being hailed by the Tupelo, Miss.-based American Family Association (AFA). The AFA has been attacking the show, urging affiliates not to air the series and calling on advertisers to boycott. The AFA says several major advertisers have pulled out, but will not name them.


[Station manager Duane] Lammers, however, says his decision has nothing to do with AFA’s campaign. [...]

The AFA says NBC is promoting the show as a serious drama about Christians, but calls Quinn’s character “a drug-addicted Episcopal priest whose wife depends heavily on her midday martinis." In a statement, AFA Chairman Donald E. Wildmon said, “We are tired of NBC’s anti-Christian bigotry.” The group also points to a gay character as another problem with the show.

Maybe the AFA was willing to play ball when it was just a Viked-out priest and his boozy WASP wife, but when NBC insisted on piling on with the gays, the floodgates to good, old-fashioned red state outrage were opened. In any case, the local station manager will probably return to the office tomorrow and find an enormous gift basket from NBC president Kevin Reilly, with a note attached indicating that all of the characters on his new Must See TV Thursday line-up are all secretly Sodomites and should be immediately punished by further publicity-attracting protests.