I wrote a little about this at Lem's place. I have some experience with how religion is treated by the TV people. They will do everything they can to squash it unless they can laugh at it or ridicule it. That is what they do.
The said part about it is that their fans will be oblivious to it. I bt they don't follow the news and don't think anything of it. So the powers that be at A&E will get away with trying to stifle his free speech rights.
I won't rehash the stuff I went through since you guys all went through it with me. The only thing that I didn't mention is that all of the TV people had one thing in common. The head of TLC, the second command, the field producer, the ass't producer and supervising producer all had one thing in common. I think you know what it is. I can't mention it because of what would happen if I did.
This is the America we live in today.