The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) has condemned the screening of the new comedy series imported from the U.S. by Channel Ten, entitled 'Californication', with the group saying that the show was a threat to community standards.
Glynis Quinlan, the spokeswoman for ACL, told the Herald Sun on Wednesday that the television show, being promoted by the television network as the 'filthiest show' on the nation's television, was against family values given the gratuitous sex scenes.
"It's been promoted as the filthiest show on Australian TV. The idea clearly there is to get the viewers in. These sorts of programs are all against family values," she said.
"We all love a joke in Australia, but humour or the guise of entertainment doesn't excuse gratuitous sex …."
One scene which had particularly riled a conservative group was the opening scene where the main actor had entered into a Catholic Church.
He was talking to Jesus Christ on the crucifix when he was approached by a nun who offered him oral sex where as the act was about to begin, he woke up with another woman realising the church scene was just a dream.
The Culture and Media Institute rebuked the show calling it, "a blatant display of anti-Christian bigotry, insulting to the core of the Catholic Church."