Fairness Doctrine would threaten Christian stations, author says
Christian radio and television stations had better watch out —
the government might get them. So says conservative author Brad
O’Leary.  He spoke out at the Heritage Foundation Wednesday
against the reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine, a defunct
Federal Communications Commission rule that would require equal
attention to both sides of controversial issues in broadcast
editorial content.  Although there is no formal bill in
Congress, O’Leary still wrote a book warning of the rule’s
potential dangers.  “Talk radio is under attack,” said O’Leary,
a Catholic. “Christian radio is under attack. And even the
Internet is under attack.”  In his book, O’Leary wrote that the
doctrine could require Christian stations to give equal time to 
activists who support keeping abortion legal, same-sex marriage
activists, environmental rights activists and people of other
faiths opposite supporters of Christian theology and religious
principles.  “The medium wou