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QBID - LAWSUIT FILED AGAINST "Q-TELEVISION" NETWORK
Due to breach of contract ...
http://www.metrog.com/headline/articles05/051123_qtelevision.html
from metroG NewsLines
December 5, 2005

Archbishop Bruce J. Simpson, President of Benedictine Enterprises, LLC
metroG Associate
Archbishop Bruce

Archbishop Bruce J. Simpson, President of Benedictine Enterprises, LLC, which entered into a contract with QTN to provide hosting services for a television show hosted on QTN, has announced that it was necessary to initiate civil litigation against QTN for Breach of Contract, Acting in bad faith, and infliction of emotional distress. The suit was filed in the Court of Common Pleas for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania today.

“Frank Olsen, President and majority owner of QTN, refused to honor the terms of his contract with Benedictine Enterprises, LLC for the production of a television show entitled ‘The Bishops Roundtable’, and this action became regrettably necessary,” said Simpson. The relationship between Olsen and Simpson was rocky from the very start. In the beginning Olsen told Simpson that some of his staff were not cooperating with the development of the show because they thought Simpson was an undercover Federal Agent who was investigating Olsen. The apparent leader of this faction was at the time QTN’s senior producer, Alexis Fish according to Olsen. No explanation was ever given as to why this preposterous scenario was even thought to be real.

Olsen has a history of making promises only to break them almost at once with Simpson. Two shows and an ordination were filmed showing the reception of openly gay men into the clergy. After almost two months of stating the shows were great, Olsen decided the shows were less than what he wanted and has refused to continue.

The first show filmed featured Rev. Albert Pennybacker, President of the Clergy and Laity Leadership Network as a guest discussing the role of the right-wing religious establishment in America and its bond with politics and how it was effecting America plus a gay American Iraqi war veteran discussing what it was like to be a gay soldier and in combat.

The second show featured an in-depth look at the failed justice system in Allegan County Michigan and how it railroaded an innocent gay man into prison for up to 45 years as a result of a conspiracy between the police, prosecutor and judge. The show intended to investigate other cases that mirrored the “Michael Batey” case in the future with the audience being invited to submit candidate cases. Sean Kosofsky of the Triangle Foundation of Detroit Michigan was a featured guest on this show. This show even featured a tape of the accuser recanting his accusations under oath.

No other talk show on gay or mainstream television has taken this approach to injustice in America. QTN would have been first in this genre.

The third show to be aired was an Ordination in Florida of two openly gay men that was conducted by Archbishop Simpson. QTN had the opportunity to show that not the entire Catholic Church is anti-gay, only parts of it, and broadcast the first ever seen Old Catholic Church ordination on gay television. As of last conversation with Q staff, the tapes from the ordination were “missing in action.”

Simpson observed that while this period of interaction was going on between Q and Benedictine Enterprises, two talk shows were put on the air at Q.

“All I ever wanted to do was to make a show that would address the evils of the religious right as well as the conservative right in this country, as evidenced by the first two shows that we filmed. An alternate view of God and Christianity must be presented to the world and Q had that chance and blew it,” stated Simpson.

“This has been a most unpleasant experience in dealing with Frank Olsen, and I regret having to take this step,” said Simpson. QTN has 20 days to respond to the charges.

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