Internet Criminals Attack MOVIEGUIDE® and its Founder Ted Baehr

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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Internet Criminals Attack MOVIEGUIDE® and its Founder Ted Baehr

Bogus Email Sends People to Porn Site

By Michael Ireland
Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service

HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA (ANS) – In recent weeks, numerous Christian groups, churches and supporters of California’s Prop. 8 in favor of traditional marriage have experienced vicious attacks and hate mail, including death threats, from homosexual, left-wing activists and followers.

Now a bogus email in the name of MOVIEGUIDE® and its Christian founder, Dr. Ted Baehr, is sending people to a homosexual porn site, Dr. Baehr said today.

“This is a criminal attack on our ministry,” Dr. Baehr noted in an e-mail update to ANS. He advised supporters and friends to report any similar attacks to MOVIEGUIDE® at info@movieguide.org .

“We are looking at legal and criminal action,” Dr. Baehr said. “But, in the meantime, we urgently ask all of our partners and supporters to please pray that no one will be fooled by these attacks and that the attacks will stop.”

MOVIEGUIDE® and its sister organization, the Christian Film & Television Commission®, are dedicated to “redeeming the values of the entertainment industry according to biblical values by influencing industry executives and by informing and equipping the public about the influence of the entertainment media.”

For more information on media from a Christian perspective, order the latest MOVIEGUIDE® magazine by calling 1-800-899-6684(MOVI) or visit their website at www.movieguide.org .

MOVIEGUIDE® is dedicated to redeeming the values of Hollywood by informing parents about today’s movies and entertainment and by showing media executives and artists that family-friendly and even Christian-friendly movies do best at the box office year in and year out. MOVIEGUIDE® now offers an online subscription to its magazine version, at www.movieguide.org .

The magazine, which comes out 25 times a year, contains many informative articles and reviews that help parents train their children to be media-wise consumers.

MOVIEGUIDE® also regularly broadcasts several international TV and radio programs hosted by Dr. Baehr.

Also, if you want to train your family to be media-wise, call 1-800-899-6684 in North America to order the book, video or audio version of THE MEDIA-WISE! FAMILY, Dr. Ted Baehr’s latest book.

For more information, please visit www.movieguide.org on the Internet or call 1-800-899-6684

** Michael Ireland, Chief Correspondent of ANS, is an international British freelance journalist who was formerly a reporter with a London (United Kingdom) newspaper and has been a frequent contributor to UCB Europe, a British Christian radio station. Michael has traveled to Albania and the former Yugoslavia, Holland, Germany and the former Czechoslovakia, Israel,and Canada. He has reported for ANS from Jordan, China, Russia, Jamaica, Mexico, and Nicaragua. Michael’s involvement with ASSIST News Service is a sponsored ministry department — Michael Ireland Media Missionary (MIMM) — of A.C.T. International at: Artists in Christian Testimony (A.C.T.) International.