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Conservative Moms Outraged With Italian Restaurant For Sponsoring 'Satanic' TV Series 'Lucifer'

by Rolly Gacelo / Jan 28, 2016 10:17 PM EST
Cast of new Fox TV series Lucifer

Reviews for the "Lucifer" TV series are not really that good, so Italian restaurant Olive Garden was somewhat surprised for feeling the heat from a conservative group about its decision to associate itself with the show.

One Million Moms, which months ago ran a petition for the network to stop the airing of "Lucifer," wants people to contact and boycott the restaurant for sponsoring the DC-based show.

"Contact Olive Garden, who sponsored the spiritually dangerous program 'Lucifer' and paid corporate dollars to promote their restaurants in association with the content of the program," the group petition reads on its website.

"Use the information we have provided on our website, and let Olive Garden know that its advertising dollars are supporting sympathy towards the devil and glorifying Satan and that financial support should be pulled immediately."

"Lucifer" TV series tells the story of Lucifer Morningstar ( played by Tom Ellis), a bored and unhappy Lord of Hell who decided to abandon his throne and descend in Los Angeles to help the city's police department catch criminals.

The petition also called "Lucifer" spiritually dangerous and it makes "being the devil look cool."

One Million Mom's first attempt to derail "Lucifer" was in May last year when it urged Fox to cancel the TV series saying "choosing to air this show, FOX is disrespecting Christianity and mocking the Bible."

The campaign garnered 34,052 signatures and obviously, it did nothing.

It didn't take long for "Lucifer" creator Neil Gaiman to react on One Million Moms' petition. He expressed his confidence the petition will not get far after similar incident years back on his other creation.

"Ah. It seems like only yesterday (but it was 1991) that the "Concerned Mothers of America" announced that they were boycotting Sandman because it contained Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans characters," Neil Gaiman posted on his Tumblr account regarding the "Lucifer" TV series vs One Million Moms issue.

"It was Wanda that upset them most: the idea of a Trans Woman in a comic book... They told us they were organising a boycott of Sandman, which they would only stop if we wrote to the American Family Association and promised to reform."

To date, however, Italian restaurant Olive Garden has yet to respond to the boycott petition of the conservative group in relation to the "Lucifer" TV series.

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