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Mother, Daughter Upset After Disney Channel Censors 'God'

Rebecca Bellecci December 03, 2014 01:47 PM EST

Statues of Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse are seen at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, March 11, 2011. | (Photo: Reuters/Mike Blake)

A North Carolina mother is claiming that the Disney Channel reportedly censored her daughter's mention of God in a recent Thanksgiving post.

Julie Anderson, mother to 10-year-old Lilly Anderson, recently told Fox News that her daughter was reportedly censored from mentioning God on the Disney Channel website when asked, over Thanksgiving, what she was thankful for.

Lilly reportedly wrote that she was thankful for "God, my family, my church and my friends," but got a message back from the website denying her submission and asking her to "Please Be Nice."

The 10-year-old then got her mother, Julie, to help her, and the two realized that after posting multiple submissions, only comments in which she didn't mention God were approved by the website.

"She came and got me to let me know that something wasn't right. We started looking at it together and kind of playing with it and changing words around to see what it was that it didn't like," Anderson told Fox & Friends. "We found out that when we removed the word God from the post, the website would allow it."

According to Fox News, Disney Channel issued a response to the Andersons' complaint, saying that it usually blocks the mention of God from its message boards "because so many people attempt to abuse the system and use the word 'God' in conjunction with profanity, in an abundance of caution, our system is forced to catch and prevent any use of the word on our website."

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