An Inclusive Litany

5/31/93

At Eastern Oregon State University, Josh Tanner's college radio program was banned due to the explicit material it featured. Tanner ran a Christian music show, and station officials banned the music because their faculty adviser considered it "too spiritually explicit." Tanner says he was told not to say the word "Christian" on the air. The decision, later reversed under pressure from a lawyer, surprised Tanner. "The station plays the vilest things—anything under the sun that is perverted," he says. "So it was a real shock" that the music was nixed for its spirituality.