Dr. Frank Wright: ‘We Will Not Bow to Cancel Culture’

by christiannewsjournal
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In a public statement on video, D. James Kennedy Ministries President and CEO Dr. Frank Wright revealed a series of cancel culture attacks on the Christian broadcast ministry which, he said, are “surely the first wave of much more to come.” Despite that, he’s committed to standing for the “truth and defending freedom.”

Many have heard the term but may not understand what it means. Cancel culture is the moniker for the systematic efforts of media and technology elites to marginalize, demonize, and eventually criminalize speech and ideas that are unacceptable to their hard-Left Marxist sensibilities.

When James Madison was a young man, he stood with his father outside a Virginia jail listening. They were listening to Baptist preachers, who stood in their jail cell windows preaching the Gospel, Wright  shared. “Why were they in jail? What was their alleged crime? They were preaching opinions not approved by the government. These visceral examples of viewpoint discrimination were not lost on Madison who later drafted the U.S. Constitution and went on to serve as the fourth President of the United States.

Wright focused on culture in 2021 after the ministry lost it’s platform on Lifetime.

The Truths That Transform television program was forced off the Lifetime channel for being deemed too controversial in February. They complained about our abortion special. They wouldn’t air a special on George Soros. They even refused a special on the life of George Washington – the spiritual life of George Washington. And so after discussing with the folks at Lifetime, we’ve decided we can’t continue in this relationship. So we are now off of Lifetime effective immediately.

For D. James Kennedy Ministries, the first significant attack came from the Southern Poverty Law Center—who placed us on their so-called hate map for our Biblical views on marriage and human sexuality. As you may know, we sued both SPLC and Amazon in federal district court for defamation and discrimination. Four years later, that case is still alive before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. We are asking that court to remand our case for a trial before a jury of our peers. Please pray that God will open that door with a favorable ruling.

Just in the last month, the digital vendor hosting our website’s bookstore—known as Volusian—forced us to close down our bookstore—again because of our Biblical stand for truth. And most recently, the thought police at Facebook began blocking our Facebook Live program titled, “Why Do You Believe That?” This is a program we have aired for the last 15 months on Facebook—but suddenly we are deemed in violation of their so-called community standards.

We are confident in our calling and blessed beyond measure by your faithful prayers and consistent financial support. We are taking every possible step to secure all our digital, video, and print content. And we are working diligently to expand our channels of distribution.

The Scriptures promise that when the enemy comes in like a flood, God raises a standard to which we can repair. That standard is truth—God’s truth. We remain committed to standing for truth and defending your freedom.

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D. James Kennedy Ministries (DJKM) is a media ministry whose television program, Truths That Transform, airs nationwide. DJKM actively communicates the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the supremacy of His Lordship, and a Biblically informed view of the world.

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