[QUOTE]Mrs. Jacob Arata, la bellissima madre wrote:
Call to action: Public apology from NBC

Proclaimed by: ArianellMB
Proclaimed from: Hillsborough, New Jersey


Proclaimation...

Wednesday June 25th on the Today Show, host Kathy Lee Gifford was quizzing guests of a wedding on wedding traditions. On a question as to the origin of wearing the wedding ring on your left ring finger, an option for an answer was that "Pagans believed it was bad luck to carry metal on the right side."

Reading the question aloud, Gifford chose to say "The Pagans, the nasty, bad, Pagans, believed ....."

For any other religion, she would not have made the comment, and if she had, a public apology would most likely be released very quickly. The pagan community should not stand for it. Her personal belief may be that we are "nasty and bad", but it does not make it alright for her to say so on national television. Please e-mail NBC and/or the Today Show with professional, yet still stern, letters asking for an apology from Gifford. E-mails should be titled something along the lines of "Pagan Community Requesting On-Air Apology from Kathy Lee Gifford"

E-mails can be sent to : today@nbc.com

Website: today.msnbcdotcom

i e-mailed and i urge everyone else to do the same[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]Gwynna wrote:
There is a petition directed to NBC, the TODAY show, and its major commercial sponsors at:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/quotnasty-bad-pagansquot-protesting-hate-speech-on-nbc[/QUOTE]

Please go to the petiton site and sign it. No one in that position of authority should make blanket statements like that and should be held accountable for their actions.