An African-American Baptist convention born out of the 1960s struggle for civil rights has denounced the television comedy â??Black Jesusâ? and is mobilizing members to join a petition drive asking network officials to take the program off the air.
The Progressive National Baptist Convention, formed in the early 1960s and the denominational home of Martin Luther King, denounced the program that airs on Adult Swim -- a Turner Broadcasting System-owned cable network that shares channel space with the Cartoon Network -- as â??nothing short of blasphemous.â?
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