Sports bars and other business have worked for years to get deals with the NFL in order to be allowed to display NFL football games and the superbowl. An Indianapolis church however is going against the law and planning to display the Superbowl on Superbowl Sunday to its patrons despite being disallowed to proceed by the NFL.
The Second Baptist Church at 3705 Kessler Blvd North Drive in Indianapolis will be in essence pirating the content owned by the NFL to display on a large projector / screen. The NFL's policy has prevented 'mass out-of-home viewing' for decades. It is somewhat disturbing to see a church taking advantage of the public broadcast in a manner that will exploit the NFL to serve church purposes and patrons.
It makes you wonder what will be next. Will churches start burning pirated copies of Windows Vista and downloading illegal copies of music and DVD's or selling knock of designer hand bags made by Honduran child labor to raise money?
What is it saying to our youth when churches won't respect the law?
4 comments:
In Chicago, the news had several places that were showing the game. I am sure the most were illegal.
That does not surprise me at all. Its the hypocrisy of this story that struck me. For a church to defiantly steal and acknowledge it . . . .
I think you should cut them a break. Indy has waited so long and probably couldn't have done it without divine intervention.
lol, and a Bears team that fell asleep during half time. :)
Just kidding, the team deserved to win, got nothing against that, but churches that steal?
That's almost like Astronauts that wear diapers to drive across the country to kidnap or kill off the competition for their love interests.
Then again, there was a good deal of pillaging during the crusades on all sides.
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