On August 21, 2017, the AMC series "Preacher" disgracefully portrayed Jesus Christ in a television broadcast, in a profane combination of pornography and blasphemy according to Dr. Will Hall, editor of the Louisiana Baptist Message. The AMC series “Preacher” has portrayed Christ in a graphic sex scene that combines blasphemy with pornography. The August 21 episode titled, “Dirty Little Secret,” showed an actor playing the role of Jesus having sex with a married woman in an extended, graphic scene with explicit vocals. The director used shadows and silhouettes to soften the two figures as they engaged in various sexual positions, but these cinematic techniques did not disguise the pornography. As Dr. Hall notes, one of the show's producers, Seth Rogan, was both boastful about the episode, and "shocked" that AMC allowed the series to broadcast it as Dr. Hall noted. In a tweet promoting the “Dirty Little Secret,” Seth Rogan was gleeful about offending community standards of decency, telling followers, 'Tonight’s episode of #Preacher has some stuff I’ve been excited to bring to life for years and I’m SHOCKED they let us do it.' Under Louisiana's tax law, AMC has made filings with the state that could net AMC a check for … [Read more...]