In 1974, Jeremy Lansman and Lorenzo Milam submitted a request to the FCC to amend the rules concerning educational broadcasts.
The FCC reviewed this request and denied it in 1975, citing it did not have a policy on restricting broadcasts based on possible religious content.
During the time the matter was being considered, the FCC received numerous letters concerning this proposal.
Messages were circulating on the Internet as late as September 2012 stating that a ban on religious broadcasting was either being actively considered or has been recently enacted.
A 2009 variation of Petition 2493 (without the RM- prefix)[2] claims O'Hair's organization, American Atheists, wants the "Removal of Joel Osteen, Joyce Meyer, Charles Stanley, David Jeremiah and other pastors from the air waves," and Dobson asks petitioners to send responses and donations to "Lisa Norman".