The lesson to be learned: unless you endorse the Academy’s ideological line in thought, word, deed, and song, you will get no acknowledgement from Hollywood.

Her story is the stuff Hollywood films are made of.

She is a severely disabled woman with an inspiring story and the singer of a sweet song entitled “Alone and Yet Not Alone,” a piece about the person who stood by her side and helped with her struggles.  The song was recently nominated for an Academy Award.

The singer is Joni Earekson Tada, who was left a quadriplegic at age 17 after a diving accident crippled her for life.  She can’t even use her hands.  But despite her disability, she became an artist, an author, and a speaker.  A strong and powerful advocate for the disabled, she has inspired millions.

But for the Hollywood elite, there is a big catch to Joni’s story.

She is a devout evangelical Christian, and the person she is singing about is God.  Those two facts evidently have been enough to put her and her song on the Academy’s Black List.

Of course, that’s not how the Academy puts it.  It’s all a matter of scrupulously following ethics, you see.

According to The Huffington Post, “[t]he song had come under fire after it was revealed that Bruce Broughton, the composer, was a former Governor himself and former head of the Academy’s music branch. According to a report posted by Deadline.com’s awards columnist Pete Hammond after the Oscar nominations were announced in January, Broughton ‘started making phone calls to colleagues urging them to consider the song’ when filling out their Oscar ballots.

“‘No matter how well-intentioned the communication, using one’s position as a former governor and current executive committee member to personally promote one’s own Oscar submission creates the appearance of an unfair advantage,’ Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs said in the statement announcing the ouster of ‘Alone Yet Not Alone.'”

Broughton and Tada both deny influence-peddling.

It’s almost funny to see how incensed the Academy can be and how finely wrought the ethical code of the left-leaning organization can be when it comes to evangelicals, a group they routine despise, ridicule, or reject outright.  All it takes is a mere whisper of sin exposed by some columnist, and a song about God is suddenly toxic, yanked from consideration for an award.

Considering that Hollywood elite leftists don’t like much of anything about evangelicals, it is difficult to see the rescinding of the nomination of “Alone yet Not Alone” as anything but prejudicial and selective application of the Academy’s code.

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