American Family Association “project” One Million Moms has started a phone and email petition to national restaurant chain Olive Garden, urging them to stop sponsoring Fox’s Lucifer, which premiered on January 25 (see “One Million Moms Targets Fox”).

The petition states that the “spiritually dangerous” program “glorifies Satan as a caring, likable person in human flesh. The character Lucifer Morningstar makes being the devil look cool, drives a fancy car, gets out of a speeding ticket, owns a nightclub in LA, and is irresistible to women.” It feels the company is using its advertising is “supporting sympathy towards the devil and glorifying Satan.”

In the scripted e-mail, the group argues “The program mischaracterizes Satan and is spiritually dangerous” and asks Olive Garden to pull its financial support immediately.

Though live-plus-3 ratings have not yet been cataloged, the series debut posted a 2.4 rating in the 18 – 49 demographic, and drew 7.2 million viewers in Live+ same day, according to Deadline. It ties Rosewood as the network’s highest-rated series launch this season.

The series from Jerry Bruckheimer and Len Wiseman is based on the Lucifer comics which spun out of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman Vertigo series.