Neil Gaiman Weighs In On One Million Moms Trying To Stop Lucifer

Several days ago, the American Family Association's One Million Moms launched a petition to halt Fox's new television series, Lucifer. Why? Because they believe the comic book-based show "mischaracterizes" Satan and "mocks the Bible."

Now Neil Gaiman, who created the character Lucifer Morningstar (played by Tom Ellis) along with Sam Kieth and Mike Dringenberg, has responded to the petition.

"Ah. It seems like only yesterday (but it was 1991) that the "Concerned Mothers of America" announced that they were boycotting SANDMAN because it contained Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans characters," Gaiman wrote on his official Tumblr page. "It was Wanda that upset them most: the idea of a Trans Woman in a comic book… They told us they were organising a boycott of SANDMAN, which they would only stop if we wrote to the American Family Association and promised to reform.

I wonder if they noticed it didn't work last time, either…"

Charming, charismatic and devilishly handsome, Lucifer is enjoying his retirement, indulging in a few of his favorite things – wine, women and song – when a beautiful pop star is brutally murdered outside of Lux. For the first time in roughly 10 billion years, he feels something awaken deep within him as a result of this murder. Compassion? Sympathy? The very thought disturbs him.

Lucifer will premiere on Fox in 2016.