NBC Abandons Plan to Attack Christians With Spears
Network Drops Plot to Air 'Will and Grace' Segment Mocking the Crucifixion
By Jenni Parker
February 6, 2006

(AgapePress) - Responding to pressure, NBC has decided to strike a particularly offensive segment from an upcoming episode of the sitcom, "Will and Grace," featuring a guest appearance by pop music star Britney Spears. The American Family Association (AFA) reports that the network cancelled plans to include a reference in the show's April 13 episode that would have offended Christians, both by its timing and its content.

According to AFA, a Tupelo, Mississippi-based pro-family group, NBC had previously announced its intention to air an episode the night before Good Friday, featuring pop music performer Britney Spears as a guest star. In her appearance, Spears was to portray a Christian conservative sidekick to homosexual character Jack McFarland (actor Sean Hayes), who has his own talk show on the fictional "Out TV" cable channel.

The Christian organization's research revealed that, in the planned episode, Jack's network was to be bought out by a Christian network, eventually leading to Spears' character appearing in a cooking segment called "Cruci-fixins." The rest