Oscar 2006: happy to be out of touch.(Academy Awards)

They tried to tone down the politics at the 78th annual Oscar ceremony on February 5, despite the controversial, leftist, secular nature of most of the nominees and winners. They didn't quite succeed. They also failed completely at making the show family-friendly or Christian-friendly.

Crude sex jokes, including jokes about homosexuality and sex-change operations, pervaded a good portion of the pre-planned speeches from the stage, including Jon Stewart's emcee work and the beginning of the show. The beginning of the show is the most likely time that impressionable children might be watching. Yet, it was during that time of the show that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and their emcee chose to make the most homosexual jokes of the evening, even to the point of claiming, tongue in cheek, that the famous Westerns of yesteryear were full of hidden homosexual messages.

Of course, by shutting out the best family movies with wholesome and godly Christian messages--like The Chronicles of Narnia, Dreamer, Madagascar, and Chicken Little--the Oscar ceremony ensured that it would get the lowest ratings ever from the television audience, the vast majority of whom are families and Christians with TV sets in their living rooms.

Indeed, overnight ratings reports show a 10-point drop in ratings for the Oscar show compared to last year's already low ratings.

As usual, only one of the winners gave God or Jesus Christ any thanks or credit for their blessing. That was one of the artists behind the winning song, "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp."

It's hard to see how such a tone-deaf song even got nominated, much less win the award. Jon Stewart had the best quip of the night after this song won the Oscar. "I think it just got easier out here for a pimp," he joked.

The sexually explicit homosexual movie Brokeback Mountain won Best Original Score, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Director. George Clooney walked off with an Oscar for his supporting performance in Syriana, a radical, anti-American diatribe. Someone Crash-ed the party for Brokeback, however, when the provocative and sometimes worthwhile Crash beat out Brokeback Mountain for Best Picture. Even so, Crash contained the highest amount of foul language of any of the major nominees, and the movie had other moral and political flaws.