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After having private correspondence with Ian Punnett
via email, I have come to believe that he is a pretty decent guy. I keep this page up to
keep him on his toes.
-- Sterling D. Allan, 3/11/01 |
Oust
Ian Punnett of 570 KNRS "family values" talk radio
| The following
is a letter I sent to 570 KNRS "Family Values Talk
Radio" the 'home of Rush Limbaugh and Dr. Laura.' |
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To: 570 KNRS talk radio
Ian Punnett has got to go. Either that or you are going to have to stop calling your station
"Family Values Talk Radio." That is a total farce. Among other things, he is avidly
pro-homosexual rights, saying it is something they are born with and not a sin -- forgetting that
we all are born with our challenges of the flesh and that our task is to overcome those through
faith.
His introduction, "laying my hands on the naked" just about sums up his sacrilege of
things virtuous. He is a sham when it comes to family values.
Yes, he wants to bring a "fuzzy world a little bit more into focus" -- his focus, which
is decidedly left of the majority of people in Utah, especially those who believe in family
values.
Send him packing to a liberal station or something.
He does not belong at KNRS.
Today 7/26/00, he said straight out that he felt a sense of mission as it were to help push the
envelope on this homosexuality thing.
He should not be given the credibility of your station as a platform.
I am going to be writing to Dr. Laura and telling her about Ian Punnett and asking her to withdraw
her advertisement from your show in which she says, "My kind of radio."
At present it is not her kind of radio.
Sincerely,
Sterling D. Allan
http://www.greaterthings.com
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Here is what I wrote and faxed to Dr. Laura
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Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Fax: (818) 461-5140
July 26, 2000
Re: 570 KNRS, Salt Lake City is NOT your kind of radio.
Dear Dr. Laura
I love your show. What a blessing you are to America! I love tuning in when I can at work and when
I drive to and from work.
Anyway, the reason for this Fax is to inform you of a situation on one of the radio stations where
you are aired.
Salt Lake City's 570 KNRS, "Family Values Talk Radio," which in an advertisement you say
is "my kind of radio," has a talk host following your show in the afternoons who doubles
in New York. His name is Ian Punnett, and he is not only pro-homosexuality-rights but feels he is
mission bound to push the envelope on that issue in Utah.
I'm guessing that you are not aware of that, otherwise you would not run an ad on the station
saying it is "my kind of radio." I would like to suggest that you request that your ad
not run so long as Ian Punnett is on the air on that station. It is a farce.
I also called in live today and expressed my disappointment with his show, that he would be
promoting these things on a station that is supposed to be for 'family values'. I said that while
it is good to love the sinner that we must not condone the sin. He said that it was not a sin,
that some people are born with that tendency. I said, "and some people are born with the
tendency for pedophilia, but that does not give them the excuse to act it out. All of us are
sinners and need to overcome our weaknesses through faith." He did not buy that at all.
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Ian Punnett's pro-homosexuality rights view is not in keeping with the Judeo-Christian ethics
that are the foundation for the majority of Utah Citizens. He should stay in New York and stop
trying to export his version of "family values."
Let's send him packing.
Sterling
Feedback
I'm shocked and
embarrassed that anyone would do this to Ian
Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 7:07 PM
Subject: First endure, then pity, then embrace
Sterling,
I was just looking for Ian Punnett's radio show to give someone a link so that they can listen to me
tomorrow morning on his show. I was shocked to read your piece on Ian Punnett and I am shocked and
embarrassed to know that anyone would do this to Ian.
Of all the talk show hosts I have done shows with on the issue of the dangers of antidepressants Ian
has been the most concerned and the most helpful. And from what I have understood Ian is also a
minister. Just because he says people are born homosexual does not mean he does not think they can
change and does not mean he agrees with the lifestyle. In my opinion you have really misjudged him
and owe him a BIG apology.
Dr. Ann Blake Tracy,
Executive Director, International Coalition For Drug Awareness
& author of Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? - Our Serotonin Nightmare
Office: 801-282-5282
Website: www.drugawareness.org
Sterling's reply
to Ann
Hi Dr. Ann,
Remember, I have a statement at the beginning of the page that says I see Ian as a generally
decent guy, but that I keep this page up to keep him on his toes.
Had you heard his show three years ago along with me, I think you would be more empathetic with
my stance taken at that time. His daily mantra preceding his show, "laying my hands on
the naked" was both sacrilegious and obscene for the sake of shock humor. I don't know if
he has that statement any more -- but he did then. Then to give excuse to the homosexuals
because of how they were born was in my opinion not in keeping with "family values."
I hope you are right in saying he doesn't condone the lifestyle. That is not how he was coming
across that day.
Perhaps I would reconsider having this page up if I heard him today.
The fact that he is giving you good assistance in promoting your message is very good. For
that I applaud him.
Keep up the good work.
Sincerely,
Sterling D. Allan
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