What is your preference? Are you saying that you would rather that gay people did not appear in movies or TV at all? Or is it how they are portrayed that bothers you?
It does not bother me so much that there is a group out there seeking to pressure the media to depict their chosen moral code more often and in the way that they like, openly using entertainment to change social mores. This isn’t unusual; lots of groups do it. Lots of playwrights do it. In the days of morality plays, even the Church did it.
It bothers me very greatly that for nearly a quarter of a century this group has been doing this very openly
in the hopes that they can erase the influence of existing moral teachings such as those of the Catholic Church and yet there are
Catholic viewers who can read the group’s annual reports and still somehow deny that the group is doing it!
Instead of rejecting entertainment that actively tries to lead them to reject tenets of their faith, these Catholics have increasingly fallen into line with the moral code their entertainment tells them to follow. Many even want the Church to do the same!! Many Christian denominations have gone that way; it is very sad and very alarming. Anybody who thinks that we will not be directly attacked for our beliefs as a result of the efforts of GLAAD just isn’t listening to what GLAAD openly says its agenda is,
which is full societal agreement with their moral code.
I get so weary of the daily - left vs. right - stiff in our society.
I pray today that the continual divide between left, right, and in between lessens, and we get on with praising God in all that we say and do, and in loving and serving our brothers and sisters in this world.
I get very weary if right-vs-left being given priority over moral-vs-immoral. There is a big difference.
Right vs left can be a difference of opinion about which moral course of action is most likely to achieve a just society. For instance, right vs left might differ about whether it is in the interest of society to criminalize some immoral action or to give financial incentives to encourage some moral action or whether to move some moral goal from the private sector into the work of the public sector.
That kind of right-vs-left, we can live with. A major divide over what ends are moral and what ends are immoral, OTOH, is likely to become the undoing of our society, since these are serious matters that can make political compromise difficult or impossible to achieve.
