I agree with the last poster ...
Are the people here complaining because Verizon FiOS is carrying the ABC network which has this show on it? Or has Verizon placed ad's during the commercial timeslots promoting their services (and thus, in part, contributing advertising dollars to the network indirectly supporting the airing of this show)?
There's a HUGE difference depending on the answer.
In the former, Verizon (and Comcast, and any other service provider for that matter) are simply carrying the channels which their customers want. Many customers I'm sure don't care for the show, but they certainly watch a variety of other ABC content. Verizon does not and should not (and in many case legally can not) selectively choose which shows to air. They either accept the channel as provided by the network and air it unaltered or they drop it altogether (which means all shows on that network are not available, period).
In the latter, where you see a commercial during the airing of the show, that's different. Here you have every right to petition Verizon to stop spending their advertising dollers to run commercials during this show. That is an appropriate expression of your opinion and taking your business to another carrier who doesn't run commercials during that timeslot would be an appropriate reaction.
I really wish that someone would answer the question which has been raised. Which is it?
I don't watch the show, nor do I plan to in order to see if Verizon is running commercials during it (and I suspect many posters here likely haven't either if they're so offended by it -- perhaps they are participating in a campaign organized by another party asking people to complain without actually doing the research themselves).
And of course, at the end of the day, the most effective method is to simply not watch the show in the first place. If no one watches, then it will certainly die a quick death and soon be a forgotten memory. Without viewership, shows don't last very long.
As for the content itself, Matthew 5:39.
