Can we do anything about "Ave Maria" being sung at a drag show on TV?

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This was during an episode of the TV series ‘Perfect Harmony,’ and I found it very upsetting. The level of hatred against Christians has reached new levels on TV. A recent ‘Prodigal Son’ portrayed a devoutly Christian, hymn singing blind grandmother as one of the most outrageously evil murderers ever. Does anyone have any ideas about how we can stop this?
 
Wondering why you would want to…kind of reminds me of the Pharisees having a fit about Jesus eating with sinners and tax collectors at Matthew’s house.
 
Find out which companies sponsor these shows, boycott their products, get other people to do likewise, and write the companies (as well as the TV network) and tell them what you are doing, and why. Use social media as a force multiplier.
 
I would just turn it off. Not to sound pessimistic, but I feel like there are bigger fish to fry. If we fire off a protest at every blasphemy in the current world we’re going to become those people who are perpetually outraged at every little thing. Not only that but they are probably doing such things to intentionally bait Catholics. My protest against all this junk is to not give it my viewership and to live my life in opposition to the current culture.
 
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Wondering why you would want to…kind of reminds me of the Pharisees having a fit about Jesus eating with sinners and tax collectors at Matthew’s house.
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That would be a silly comparison that has nothing to do with the issue at hand.
 
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That would be a silly comparison that has nothing to do with the issue at hand.
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I worry about the millions upon millions of young children and teenagers who are being taught to regard Christains as idiots or moral monsters. The LGBT crowd seems to control everything in Hollywood, and they simply hate, hate, hate Catholics/Christians/anyone who dares not to agree with them.

Isn’t there anything we can do?
 
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I worry about the millions upon millions of young children and teenagers who are being taught to regard Christains as idiots or moral monsters. The LGBT crowd seems to control everything in Hollywood, and they simply hate, hate, hate Catholics/Christians/anyone who dares not to agree with them.

Isn’t there anything we can do?
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You cannot do anything, but if you set your heart on being humble and meek, then these insults will be to your advantage and it will be pleasing to God. It would be good to see if your conduct has unnecessary additions to what is required as Catholics if they are a cause for provocation to others.
 
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** As Jesuslover said, turn the stupid thing off!*
** Pray.*
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I pray two hours a day and go to daily Mass.

Again, I am not worried or upset for myself, but for all the uninformed young who are being shaped by the hatred and cruel jokes that are constant on TV. Seriously, you aren’t worried about this at all?? At all??

Huge numbers of screenwriters and directors and actors and deliberately trying to teach the unformed to hate and laugh at Christianity. The souls of these children are at stake.

Of course pray and fasting are important. But surely there must be other things we can do.
 
Anti-Christian sentiment seems to be present in many television programmes.

We just have to deal with it the best we can.
 
annem said:
This was during an episode of the TV series ‘Perfect Harmony,’ and I found it very upsetting.
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It’s a pretty song. As is the case with many things that are admired people will recreate it with alterations.

Many artist have versions of their song. To name a few:
Beyoncé, Michael Bublé, Stevie Wonder, Frank Sinatra, Leslie Odom Jr, Bing Crosby, Celiné Dione, Aretha Franklin, Yo-yo Ma, Johnny Mathis, Leona Lewis, Kenny G, Dianna Ross, Andy Williams.
annem said:
The level of hatred against Christians has reached new levels on TV.
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I think it is admiration for the song.
annem said:
A recent ‘Prodigal Son’ portrayed a devoutly Christian, hymn singing blind grandmother as one of the most outrageously evil murderers ever.
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Juxtaposing opposite or contradicting elements is often done in TV and movies to magnify some attributes ute. I’ve seen things like that done many times before.

Like having a peaceful song playing while the video is showing a chaotic war scene.
annem said:
Does anyone have any ideas about how we can stop this?
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Well, you can choose not to watch it and express displeasure to the station or others involved in production. If enough people do the same then it could be recognized as something to avoid in videos for the sake of appealing to a wider audience.

If enough people don’t do it, then there’s not really a way to stop it and it is another free expression among an ocean of many.
 
Short answer: No. We are told by both our Lord and Saint Padre Pio not to worry. Instead, we avoid the intrusion of offensive material in our lives.

And we pray.

The Serenity Prayer is an excellent guide here.
 
Besides praying, and turning off the TV if it bothers you, you can also see the silver lining that someone may be moved by the beauty of the song to grow closer to Our Blessed Mother. I frankly would feel much more heartened watching a drag performer or really, any performer singing a song about Mother Mary rather than some hootchie koo number or a song bashing God or religion.
 
To the OP: No. It is called “freedom of speech” and censorship is widely condemned. There is a relatively small professional group which addresses issues such as this and has had some success in anti-Catholic attacks through the media, but it is one battle at a time and often looks like a “whack a mole” game; as one issue is addressed, one, two or more pop up elsewhere.
 
Yes, I am worried about it. However, we are not the ones pulling the strings. If the people who run our society are anti-Catholic, then we just have to accept our minority and pray for God to put an end to it.
 
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Again, I am not worried or upset for myself, but for all the uninformed young who are being shaped by the hatred and cruel jokes that are constant on TV. Seriously, you aren’t worried about this at all?? At all??
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Maybe if you want you can go into the entertainment business and use it to promote good models of Catholicism, but that doesn’t sound too feasible. Otherwise there is nothing you can do about, the law is likely on their side because of free speech.
 
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Juxtaposing opposite or contradicting elements is often done in TV and movies to magnify some attributes ute. I’ve seen things like that done many times before.

Like having a peaceful song playing while the video is showing a chaotic war scene.
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That is way out there, I think there should be more evidence that that is the case before it is proposed as an alternative.
 
With respect to the murderous Christian granny, the stereotype of the “Christian” who is actually rotten or hypocritical underneath is a well-known trope. Flannery O’Connor is one of the many who used it. One reason I was never impressed by her works is that by the time I was reading them (in school in the late 1970s), the theme of Christian people being secretly racist or selfish or hypocritical had been done to death, so I didn’t see a point of reading many, many pages going on about that. Maybe the stories were fresher when she first wrote them.

There also have been real-life murderers who kept up a facade of being good holy church-going people while secretly committing heinous crimes. The fact that you see one character on a TV show like this doesn’t amount to a statement about all Christians, any more than a corrupt cop character on a TV show means that all cops out there are corrupt. I think most viewers realize that and take the shows as the momentary entertainment that they are meant to be.
 
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