Notorious Homophobes Were Advisers on History Channel's 'Bible' Mini-Series

Is it a mere coincidence that the actor playing Satan (pictured above) in History Channel's mini-series "The Bible" looks uncannily like an older Barack Obama?   Perhaps yes, perhaps no.  What is a certainty is that the panel of advisers recruited by producers Mark Burnett and Roma Downey  to ostensibly to ensure the "accuracy" of the story line is a veritable who's who of extreme homophobes.  In a puff piece in TV Guide the panel is described as follows:

"We weren't qualified to teach the Bible, but we knew plenty of people who were," says Burnett, whose interfaith panel included pastors Joel Osteen, Rick Warren and T.D. Jakes, Bishop Michael Sheridan, Focus on the Family president Jim Daly and Rev. Samuel Rodriguez.

Of course, the production is treated as if the story line of the Bible is historic fact and ignores such petty problems as the fact that the human genome project has confirmed that Adam and Eve never existed as historic individuals or that the Great Flood was likely a mythical description of the flooding of the Black Sea basin many millennium ago when the Mediterranean Sea breached the Bosporus rather than any type of divine intervention.  As for the panel of advisers, Towleroad looks at their track record on gays:

That's Osteen, who said "I don't believe homosexuality is God's best for a person's life" and called it "sin" many times, Prop 8 supporter Rick Warren who compared homosexuality to poison and compared acting on gay urges to assaulting someone, TD Jakes who has called homosexuality a "brokenness" despite his son getting arrested in a sex sting, Bishop Michael Sheridan who has called homosexuality "intrinsically evil" and told Catholics who vote for gay marriage that they can't receive communion, and Samuel Rodriguez, who teamed up with NY state senator Ruben Diaz to rally opponents of same-sex marriage, and Jim Daly, the head of virulently anti-gay Focus on the Family.

Frankly, other than including Fred Phelps, it would have been difficult to come up with a more homophobic gathering of hate merchants.  And, of course, then there's Rick Warren who looks to be the personification of the sin of gluttony.

But back to the Obama like appearance of Satan: So far neither History Channel nor Mark Burnett, The Bible series’s creator, has issued any statement on the matter.