I think there is another way to look at this. You stated that ‘if everyone thought like I did and hundreds of thousands of people didn’t pledge, NPR would go away’. That seems true to me – that if the people who currently pledged stopped NPR would have a serious budget problem to contend with. However, that’s the point. I’m voting with my dollars because NPR, like any organization, cares very much about their income and will take swift action to protect their revenue stream. I’m currently dissatisfied with the way NPR and NPR affiliates fund their operations (the ones that don’t do what your Bay Area station apparently does), and will not enable their behavior by helping make their funding endeavors successful. Further, there already are hundreds of thousands of people like me who don’t pledge so NPR is already losing a ton of money. They can do better, and I’m not going to give them any money until they do.

I love NPR, and want to see them succeed. I want to give them donations, and have communicated clearly what my requirements are for that to happen. I don’t think what I’m asking for is unfair or unreasonable, but I’m open to having that discussion and to revising my position if an adequate counter-argument can be made.

Thanks again for commenting – and if anyone out there can get any data as to how the Bay Area affiliate’s funding has been affected by the availability for a pledge-free broadcast please post it here!

I have a feeling you are just another anti-Christian bigot. Your reasoning makes no sense.

I grew up with respect for Christian morals. I would have loved it except it was done in a society of godless secular animals who taught me that everything is relative and that there is no right or wrong. To have an adult prey on your innocence may have filled an emptiness and loneliness you possessed and for that I feel sorry for you. And if anyone told you that you would go to hell for this, that is about as evil as your attacker. If it helps you cope with your experiences to project your hell onto Christ, thats one thing, but to use Christ to justify the perpetuation of child molestation and condemning other children to your hell, this is taking his name in vain and I suggest you re-examine this. With love, I hope these words find you.

So, just from someone who has experience with being the lover of an adult man as a pre-teen.

Not that I’m endorsing it, because being told it was wrong and that I was going to burn in hell was damaging as all hell.

I’ve decided to put the book through another round of editing before making it available to the public. It shouldn’t be too much longer before it’s ready