A fighting spirit has returned to mainstream Christianity !

Really. First, The United Churches of Christ took a strong stand in favor of gay rights and then found itself blacklisted from ads on network television. Now, the UCC is fighting back and is taking the lead as a rallying point for Americans who refuse to accept politically motivated media censorship and who support mainstream Christianity and hold firm to their belief that faith and social justice are not somehow irreconcilable - as leaders on the Christian right claim - but that, in fact, the converse holds : faith without social justice is hollow.

The UCC has just launched a new ad campaign and is urging supporters to go to its website to send a letter to ABC demanding the network let leaders from mainstream churches on its Sunday talk show:

"Tell ABC to Open its Sunday Talk Show to Mainline Church Leaders

Over the years, Religious Right political leaders like Jerry Falwell, James Dobson and Pat Robertson have appeared on ABC's This Week at the exclusion of other mainline religious voices. Tell ABC to stop catering to the Religious Right..... ABC's refusal to air the new television commercial by the United Church of Christ is the latest in a series of actions that show a bias in favor of the Religious Right.