Brenda loves entering contests sponsored by KLTY, one of local Christian radio stations. Three times now she has won free movie tickets to private screenings of soon to be released movies. The third she won for last Tuesday night. We considered it a date night. Even though I'd never heard of the movie, The Best Of Enemies, I was excited about some time alone with Brenda.
We took our seats among a couple of hundred of people. A KLTY representative walked up front before the movie began and introduced himself. When he asked how people felt about the radio station people applauded and cheered. Next,we were asked about favorite radio personalities. All over the room people shouted out different names and more applause followed. I just wanted to get on with the movie since we had a hour drive back home afterward.
Right off the bat the movie had some crude language. I raised my eyebrows. This movie was sponsored by a Christian radio station? 30 minutes in one of the movie characters used G.D. You know what I am talking about. When people use God's name to damn others. I immediately looked at Brenda and told her, "I'm done." I rose and walked out with her behind me.
I could not believe a so called Christian radio station would endorse a movie that broke the third commandment. I sat on a bench in the lobby waiting on Brenda dumbfounded.
Exodus 20:7 (ESV)
7 “You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
Then it dawned on me. Nobody else got up and left the movie. Not one. These same people who applauded a Christian radio station did not take offense and leave the free movie. On the drive home it bewildered me. Does God's word mean anything? That Ex 20:7 is a commandment not a suggestion. Why didn't the whole room empty?
I'm no holy roller. I have battled sin just the like the rest of the human race. I am not perfect. I do have convictions. "G.D." is a conviction. The "F" bomb is another. I am not going to sit through a movie with such language. We usually check out the movies for content beforehand but did not do so when the movie was endorsed by one of the leading Christian radio stations in the nation.
They would be quick to justify their support because of the message of the movie about racial injustice. That message does not erase a clear violation of God's third commandment.
Follow this up with a movie Brenda wanted us to see on Saturday. I had never heard of it. The movie is Unplanned. She looked up reviews for the movie and what she read intrigued me. The movie is about abortion from the true life story of a lady who worked for years at Planned Parenthood including being a clinic director. She had two abortions herself. In one scene the abortion is shown including the sonogram and the baby being sucked from the womb. You see bloody fetal matter in the surgical tubing. In one moment you see the baby struggling to survive and then slowly it is vacuumed from the womb. Very disturbing but very real. Murder in the name of convenience. Abortion is the money maker for Planned Parenthood. They may try to cover that truth up with a message about women's healthcare. Watch the movie and see the facts.
Unplanned was the kind of movie that disturbs you. From what Brenda read to me about the movie beforehand I knew I would not be able to eat popcorn during the film. Turner told us he could not eat either. Here is my question. Why did KLTY not endorse that movie? Too graphic? Too real? Too controversial?
As a result of KLTY's decision to endorse a movie with offensive language and not endorse a movie seeking to undo one of the major social evils of our time, the brutal murder of of babies, I can no longer endorse KLTY. I have already changed the dials in my vehicles.
And for all those who chose to stay in that movie I am grieved. Grieved over hard hearts. Grieved over cowardice over convictions. Grieved over a watered down Christianity that appears to have very little impact on the world around us. Let me leave you with this? Would you have stayed in the first movie or walked out? Will you go see the movie Unplanned that takes a bold stand against abortion and Planed Parenthood? It is not an easy movie to watch. It is disturbing. It is also disturbing and a needed message for this day and time. One I am happy to endorse.
I was asked by a church member why we were going to see Unplanned. I responded that I wanted to support a movie that opposes abortion and gets the truth out about the evil intentions of Planned Parenthood.
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