The TEN Network has dropped Kenneth Copeland’s Believer’s Voice of Victory program from capital city free-to-air television in Australia. KCM Australia says the reason is because TEN states the program broadcast on 2 June 2010 breached the broadcasting codes:

They stated the reason was that our broadcast on 2nd June 2010 was unacceptable to the Commercial Television Industry Code of Practice point 1.9.6. The code states, a program ‘should not provoke or perpetuate intense dislike, serious contempt or severe ridicule against a person or group of persons on the grounds of age, colour, gender, national or ethnic origin, disability, race, religion or sexual preference’. Their claim against us was directed towards comments made on the broadcast about a “homosexual lifestyle” and that God cannot bless it.

As you know Kenneth Copeland Ministries has never promoted intense dislike against any group or individual.

In the broadcast, Kenneth Copeland and David Barton have a discussion about the four kinds of Old Testament Law. The breach would refer to this exchange:

Barton: … those things that are in the moral Law I don’t have to pray about …. I don’t have to pray about homosexuality, He’s condemned that …
Copeland: … [Oral Roberts] he said God has never ever created anybody to be something He has already condemned … He didn’t create anybody a homosexual, because He condemned homosexuals …
Barton: … I gotta jump on this, because I want everybody to know this cause it doesn’t get publizised. This thing about that he didn’t create someone to be a homosexual, what about that homosexual gene … we now have a study out just in the last few months called Ex-Gays … it documents authoritatively 50,000 cases of people who were homosexuals who no longer were. Now on the secular side they’ve been saying there is nothing you can do about it you were born that way that’s your nature … well if that’s true you can’t have 50,000 ex-gays. I mean that’s like being an ex-black or an ex-white or an ex-whatever. So what’s it has done is science has figured out that God was right. This is not who you are, it’s what you do and you can control what you do. You may not control who you are, you can control what you do … science just got changed this year to match what the Bible’s been telling us all along. And that’s why you always stick with the Bible. Science will catch up with the Bible …
Copeland: … the reason God condemned homosexuality is because of the severe attack it has on the fabric of the blessing, life, all that God created. He created things, certain things to work certain ways to our advantage, and you break that fabric now it opens you up to all kinds of problems … so He’s not condemning people …
Barton: … in Romans 1:27-32 … not only does God not approve homosexuality, it says He does not approve those who approve homosexuality …

The Kenneth Copeland program is still being broadcast in Australia on free-to-air television in regional areas.

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