70 years ago: U.S. congressional committee denounces Federal Communications Communication for giving radio time to atheists

On September 18, 1948, a U.S. House of Representatives select committee investigating the Federal Communications Communication denounced an FCC decision to permit radio time to atheists to respond to religious programs. One can hardly imagine anyone in Congress issuing a similar denunciation today without being pilloried as a bigot. At least then, as now, there remains enough freedom for Christian broadcasting in the United States to avoid the situation that now exists in the United Kingdom, where the director of religious programming for the British Broadcasting Corporation is a professing atheist.