Christian Reporter Blasts TV Station That Fired Her Because Shes Pro-Life

A Nebraska journalist who was fired for participating in a campaign to end abortions in her small town is speaking out in defense of her reporting work and her pro-life beliefs.

Speaking with the Catholic News Agency, former KNOP-TV news director and co-anchor Melanie Standiford, of Curtis, said she was surprised when her boss fired her earlier this month for “practicing partisan politics.”

“’I don’t believe being pro-life is partisan,’” she remembered telling her boss. “There are people from both sides of the aisle who believe both ways. It’s just right versus wrong in my mind.”

A Christian, Standiford said her boss accused her of violating company policy because she helped to distribute a petition to pass a Sanctuary City for the Unborn ordinance at her church and another church in Curtis. The ordinance would protect unborn babies by banning abortions within the limits of the small town.

“I didn’t think I was being political with that in my home church, sitting in the pews in my church,” she told CNA.

The news station leaders found out about Standiford’s involvement in the effort through an article in another news outlet, the Flatwater Free Press. She said the station fired her a day after the publication of the article… (Excerpt from LIFENEWS.COM)