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Religious Right Leaders Blame Iraqi Prison Abuse Scandal On MTV

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Religious Right Leaders Blame Iraqi Prison Abuse Scandal On MTV
Thursday May 13, 2004

Colson Comments 'One Of The Stupidest Things Said About The Abu Ghraib Scandal To Date,' Observes AU's Lynn

Two leaders of the Religious Right have blamed the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal on a remarkable source: watching too much MTV.

Chuck Colson spoke this week at a pastors' briefing in Washington sponsored by the Family Research Council. In a May 12 e-mail to supporters, FRC President Tony Perkins observed, "As Chuck Colson pointed out at yesterday's Pastors' Briefing, when you mix young people who grew up on a steady diet of MTV and pornography with a prison environment, you get the abuse at Abu Ghraib."

Perkins also accused "the liberal media" of using the photos "in an effort to damage the Bush Administration."

The remarks drew derision from Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group.

The Rev. Barry W. Lynn, Americans United executive director, made the following comment: "This is one of the stupidest things said about the Abu Ghraib scandal to date. Seeing Colson and Perkins stoop this low should not really surprise me, but I'm disappointed at their lack of imagination. Surely they could have found some way to blame the scandal on same-sex marriage, Bill Clinton or activist judges. Blaming every horrible thing that happens on MTV is SO '80s."

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