Word: joelton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Clean Up TV" campaign began in earnest early this year when the elders of Hurt's Church of Christ in Joelton, Tenn., became disgusted by the increasingly explicit sex on their television screens. Exhorted Hurt: "If you ever plan to take a stand for moral decency, now is the time, while hundreds of thousands of others are moving in the same direction...
...Joelton church members, who consider themselves fundamentalists, wrote several thousand other Churches of Christ, asking which five television shows they found the most morally offensive; a spokesman for the church members termed the response "an absolute explosion." The church compared the findings of its survey with the views of the National Federation for Decency, which was founded in 1977 in Tupelo, Miss., and now publishes a monthly newsletter that attacks what it considers to be distasteful TV programs. Hurt's congregations deemed the five most offensive shows to be Soap (ABC), Three's Company (ABC), Dallas (CBS), Saturday...
...refusal of General Foods and American Home Products to cooperate intensified the boycott. In October the Joelton congregation began distributing some 5 million boycott forms to interested churches, mainly in the Bible Belt. The local church distributes the forms to members. The forms are returned to the pastor, who sends them back to Joelton. Hurt then informs the targeted companies how many people are participating...
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