C'mon...knock it off...I dare ya...
    It'd been a long time since I methodically visited my entire list of SG blog sites, so tonight I decided to do just that.  I was....surprised... My stop at Global Southern Gospel Radio Blogger is highlighted here:

In closing here is a new policy we have adopted at the station. No radio release will be charted from any compilation GSG Radio receives more than two-weeks after we have heard the music on the local super-duper FM station. We will play the songs for our listeners, however we will not chart any of them. The GSG Radio Top 20 page is hit thousands of times a month, and GSG Radio is a charting station for SGN Magazine, Sogospel News, SGUSA, The Southern Gospel Website and other prominent Industry leaders.

    Let me get this straight:  If the record labels don't get him his CDs by some arbitrary deadline he sets, he'll play their songs but tell the charts he didn't?  I wonder how SGN Magazine, Sogospel News, SGUSA and The Southern Gospel Website feel knowing their charts are being fed fraudulent data?  Does it strike anyone odd that a Christian radio station is threatening Christian record labels that if they don't do what he wants, he's going to lie about them?  And if making him mad will have him play your music but say he didn’t, could being really nice get him to say he played your music, even if he doesn’t?

     It gets better, er, worse... his take on Katrina victims...

Here is a strong statement but I’ll stand by it ‘till I die. Shoot the law breakers. Drop them where they stand. If a person comes out of a Wal-Mart toting a TV, then it’s a looter and blow them away. If a person comes out of a house toting a TV, check their ID, and if they don’t live there, drop them where they stand. I know this idea appalls some people; they believe the justice system should be used, but this is an area of anarchy. There is no justice system in place, places are being robbed and people are being robbed, raped and killed by these heathen.

Excuse me, but weren’t these people told to evacuate before the storm hit? Oh, you say, they were poor and couldn’t evacuate. I’m sorry but the region provided buses for them to go to shelters. They chose not to go, and now they are living like a third world warring country.

     If he thought this bravado would help him carve out some sort of cowboy reputation, he certainly missed the mark.  He comes across as a boorish schoolyard bully.  The industry should be embarrassed that someone associated with Southern Gospel Music is spewing this garbage.  And finally...

It has been brought to my attention that Kirk Talley has a couple of new radio releases.... I doubt that I am ready to start airing his releases at this time. He ministered for years as a Man of God while the whole time he was deceiving God’s people. He says that he has repented, and many are supporting his testimony. I have forgiven Kirk, but I come from the school that says one must prove themselves after a fall

     Although there are dozens of Biblical tenets that strictly contradict his reasoning, it's clear that subtleties like Commandments hold very little influence in his logic.  When you come out in public and pretty much say that ethics, compassion and charity are of no particular concern to you, well, it's not likely quoting scripture will help.
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