The Fox Broadcasting Company will "spit in the face" of God-fearing conservatives if it airs its controversial new show "Lucifer," in which the devil ditches Hell for Los Angeles and opens a nightclub, says Alan Keyes, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
"Fox News has the reputation of being conservative, and meanwhile, [the] Fox Channel is going down a road that spit in the face of the beliefs of a lot of people who wear that label," Keyes said Wednesday on "The Steve Malzberg Show" on
Newsmax TV.
Reportedly, the series — which critics say depicts Satan as "a caring, likable person in human flesh" — is set to launch sometime in 2016 on the Fox television network. A trailer has been released online with the Lord of Hell played by British heartthrob Tom Ellis.
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The Fox television network is a separate channel from Fox News, but both channels are owned by the same company, 21st Century Fox.
Already One Million Moms, part of the American Family Association, a Christian watchdog group has launched a nationwide petition to stop it from airing.
Keyes said there is no question that Fox has the right to broadcast "Lucifer."
"We have to be clear in America that freedom of speech and of expression and so forth and so on allows Fox to put on its view of Lucifer or God or Christ for that matter," he told Steve Malzberg.
"We are not under Sharia law or ISIS or any of these crazy people who suggest because somebody differs with … even ridicules your religion … you get to go out and chop off their heads and do all this garbage. That is evil and in America we can thank God that as of yet nobody is suggesting that the practice of such evil is allowed in this country or tolerated."
"On the other hand, the folks who think that the 'Lucifer' show is conveying an impression that is false to Christianity, a false teaching with respect to human conscience and understanding of good and evil, they have a perfect right to say that and I would join them in it."
"Lucifer" is loosely based on DC's "The Sandman" comics. According to the Fox website for the show, the series depicts the devil living in Los Angeles. "Bored and unhappy as the Lord of Hell, the original fallen angel, Lucifer Morningstar has abandoned his throne and retired to L.A., where he owns Lux, an upscale nightclub," the website reads.
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