WASHINGTON (RNS) — Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Commitee, plans to introduce legislation to allow churches to show the Super Bowl on widescreen televisions, just as bars do now.
“There's absolutely no reason why you ought to be able to have a big screen in a bar but not in a church, where a church is having a social event,” said Specter in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Feb. 3, hours before the National Football League championship game.
John W. Whitehead, president of the Rutherford Institute in Charlottesville, has tried unsuccessfully to find a church willing to sue for the right to host large Super Bowl parties.