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[Michael_C]

Lilyofthevalley:

We seem to get hyper about homosexuality, but what about divorce? Had PBS interviewed divorced remarried parents would there have been such an outrage?
I think Christianity, as a whole, is unhealthily fixated on homosexuality.

Hello Lilyofthevalley, If this is your opinion I respect that. I have a family memeber that is gay. Everytime he treats us to a show in NY the theme is gay. Every issue he dsscusses has a gay theme. His agenda is always gay. He thinks everyone is secretly gay.If we allow gay marriage that will not satisfy gay people, it will open te flood gates. We’'ll hear about why are there no gay NFL coaches and why there are no gay presidents…etc. I allow him his opinion and I am entitled to mine.

As for divorce, I come from a broken family and I agree with you. It’s harmful and sadly a very excepted part of life. We always hear about the single parent that overcame everything but the true story of the single parents that hardly get by are not given the realistic attention they should get.

 

[Digitonomy]

An update on this… it looks to me like they hope that time dulling the rage of opponents, and renewed support by proponents, will win the underwriting needed for a third season. They are probably right.

Censured PBS Bunny Returns, Briefly
The producers, musicians, editors and writers of “Buster” were let go from the show for almost a year; under normal circumstances the second season would have begun in fall 2005. That fall PBS decided to provide most of the money needed for a season of 10 shows…

With PBS on board other underwriters, among them the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations and the Annenberg Foundation, pitched in. WGBH also found about a half-dozen nontraditional donors, like the Gill Foundation and the Small Change Foundation, which support gay and lesbian causes.

Perhaps surprisingly, this season continues to deal with hot-button issues. In an episode being shown today, Buster visits Fort Leonard Wood, an Army post in Missouri, to meet the family of a father who is stationed in Iraq. On Jan. 29 Buster will learn about the Mexican border, traveling with children to Tijuana from San Diego to meet their pen pals. And in the last show of the season, scheduled for Feb. 19, Buster revisits some children from the first season, whose homes in Louisiana were damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
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[Digitonomy]

Unfortunately, someone like her will get a higher paying job with the MSM. She represents the twisted values of PBS and its affiliates, as well as those of the MSM

Your prediction of higher paying job probably turned out to be correct. It’s a bit of a stretch to call it mainstream media, though. Judging from her bio on Wikipedia, she probably got her fill of that in the 80s. Current activities:

Pat Mitchell is the current President and Chief Executive Officer of the Museum of Television and Radio in New York City…a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the U.S. Afghan Women’s Council; the vice chair of the Sundance Institute Board; a founding member of Mikhail Gorbachev’s global environmental organization, Global Green USA; an adviser to the Center for Public Leadership at the Kennedy School of Harvard University; a member of the Mayo Clinic’s Board of Trustees; and on the corporate boards Knight-Ridder, Inc., Bank of America, and Sun Microsystems, Inc.

 

[boppaid]

Our culture has an unhealthy fixation on sodomy, thus the constant bang of the “gay” drum. I can’t open a paper, turn on a tv, listen to the radio, read a book, etc without being bombarded with the "gay’ agenda. It is demonic.

I am constantly bombarded with divorced people! I swear, I can’t open a paper, turn on a tv, or read about without reading about divorced families!

In other words, sin is all around in this world. It is abundant in our society. Why must we focus on homosexuality like we do?

 

[boppaid]

Are you suggesting that divorce is the moral equivalent of homosexuality?

I’m merely suggesting that we all worry about our own sin and let everyone else do the same.

There is no divorce-related lymphoma. We are not pouring billions of dollars into research to find a quick cure for divorce. There are no underground organizations promoting divorce with children. Divorced people are no more or less represented in pedophilia statistics.

Well, there is a lot of health problems associated with the stress of divorce, not to mention the problems children have when their parents are divorced.

Again, I’m not trying to call a “tit for tat”…I’m trying to show that sin is all around, and we continue to sit in our glass houses throwing our stones.

 

[dafalax]

I’m merely suggesting that we all worry about our own sin and let everyone else do the same.

Well, there is a lot of health problems associated with the stress of divorce, not to mention the problems children have when their parents are divorced.

Again, I’m not trying to call a “tit for tat”…I’m trying to show that sin is all around, and we continue to sit in our glass houses throwing our stones.

Look, if divorced people were pushing a divorced lifestyle on me as normal, it would bother me. I avoid movies that portray divorce as anything more than peripheral. i hated the new War of the Worlds because it didn’t add anything, in my mind, that now the hero was a slacker divorcee with insolent children. I hated the way Santa Clause Two portrayed the blended family as all happy slappy. Yeah, my psychologist stepdad is cool. I hate the former because it’s depressing and the latter because it’s unrealistic. However, people acknowledge that it’s not an ideal. That’s why Tom Cruise’s son hates him in War of the Worlds.
Homosexuality is portrayed as either normal (which, when it’s only 4% of population, it’s not), idealized, or both. I’ve yet to see an NBC sitcom that shows a gay character talking about going to the bathhouse after work or soliciting sex from a stranger online, which is what my former coworkers did. The homosexual couples i knew who called their relationship a “marriage” also weren’t monogamous. Yes, there are “open” straight marriages, but in gay relationships it’s the majority, while in straight relationships it’s a small fraction. This is destructive to the people living the gay lifestyle, as is gay sex itself. Two of my former coworkers had gone to the emergency room for injuries sustained from sodomy. Not only that, but std’s spread much easier through gay sex. Condoms were designed for straight sex. A woman secretes lubrication that helps the condom “glide” during intercourse. The anus does not. The rates of condom breakage and slippage during gay sex, therefore, is higher, which puts gay men at increased risk for AIDS transmission.
When 25% of gay men in San Francisco are HIV positive, is promoting homosexuality as normal really loving? Do you know how many gay men i heard say they felt guilty because so many of their friends died of AIDS and they were still alive? Do you know how many fatalistic young gay men try to contract AIDS because they see it as inevitable? Or as a form of rebellion? You should go to a bug chasers website sometime.
And if you have a gay brother who doesn’t want to get AIDS, who just wants a relationship, what do you say when he gets ahold of one of these guys who doesn’t get tested regularly for AIDS and doesn’t care if he spreads STD’s? Promiscuity is killing our young people, gay and straight, but it’s more widespread in the gay community. Even lesbians have an average of 8 more partners than their straight counterparts.
Our compassion is to lovingly tell our gay friends and relatives that God loves them and knows that chastity is the only way any of us will be happy. The cross they must bear is chaste celibacy. When you have seen the gay lifestyle in the destructive ways i have, you know that asking someone to be celibate is nothing compared to asking them to die with AIDS, or live with a colostomy bag for the rest of their life. Not to mention the drug and alcohol abuse and depression that typically come with this lifestyle. If i am obsessed with gaiety, it is only because i know how horrible it is and live with the anguish of people i truly care about not asking any better for themselves. I think the people posting on here who aren’t that opposed to homosexuality have never seen a beloved friend in vinyl chaps on his way to a leather bear orgy. Maybe you should actually look at where the gay lifestyle leads before you call us witch hunters. This isn’t about burning them at the stake, it’s an intervention to save their earthly lives and their very souls. Wake up.

 

[estesbob]

I am constantly bombarded with divorced people! I swear, I can’t open a paper, turn on a tv, or read about without reading about divorced families!

In other words, sin is all around in this world. It is abundant in our society. Why must we focus on homosexuality like we do?

The differerence of course is that unlike homosexuality the MM is not trying to present divorce as a good thing.

 

[1ke]

We seem to get hyper about homosexuality, but what about divorce? Had PBS interviewed divorced remarried parents would there have been such an outrage?
I think Christianity, as a whole, is unhealthily fixated on homosexuality.

A homosexual couple is self-evident and inappropriate, a divorced/remarried couple is not self-evident.

When presented on a TV show for children, a husband-wife couple would in no way be obviously divorced and remarried.

To bring up the topic of divorce and remarriage in the interview would be just as wrong as bringing up any other moral topic including homosexual topics.

 

[fix]

I am constantly bombarded with divorced people! I swear, I can’t open a paper, turn on a tv, or read about without reading about divorced families!

In other words, sin is all around in this world. It is abundant in our society. Why must we focus on homosexuality like we do?

When do I hear divorce is just as good as non divorce? Or, I was born to be divorced? Or, God endorses divorce as healthy and natural. Or, divorce is just as good for children as non divorce? Or, divorce makes me happy so that means it is good?

Why so much focus on homosexual issues? That is what I want to know too.

Finally, my favorite rant on this topic was in a question to EWTN a few years back:

I cannot help but notice how many people are not only completely understanding about homosexual tendencies, but can’t possibly understand why people have a problem with it. And I have to respond that because of what we’ve been exposed to and thereby desensitized to, our natural response has been dulled. It is precisely because so many have “come out” and media coverage has increased (to the point where the editor of the Sunday NY Times Magazine has recently been quoted as saying if one didn’t know better, one would think his publication was gay) that the concept of homosexuality has taken on a “normal” glow…

But who, in the current climate, can honestly express any sort of natural revulsion towards homosexual acts without being branded a “homophobe”? (By the way, I’ve never been afraid of them, so I never quite understood the phrase). It’s gotten to the point where it’s almost a hate crime to think that homosexual acts aren’t as loving and self-giving as married heterosexual acts. I don’t hate anyone, let me make that clear…

It is this exposure of homosexuality that I object to. If one’s tendencies are such, why does anyone need to be aware of them? Why, especially in the case of someone who is trying to live chastely, do they still feel free to label themselves gay and want me to accept them as completely normal? Because it advances their agenda, that’s why. If struggling homosexuals would take their pain to the confessional and keep it, like all sin, a private matter between themselves, their confessor and God, it would do them and all of us a world of good. “You want to force us back into the closet!”, I can hear them yelling. Yes, I do. Along with all other sin…

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[MichaelTDoyle]

Wow, Dafalax, that was a powerful witness. Thank you for sharing.

 

[Holly3278]

Well that is certainly good news.

 

[st_lucy]

Look, if divorced people were pushing a divorced lifestyle on me as normal, it would bother me. I avoid movies that portray divorce as anything more than peripheral. i hated the new War of the Worlds because it didn’t add anything, in my mind, that now the hero was a slacker divorcee with insolent children. I hated the way Santa Clause Two portrayed the blended family as all happy slappy. Yeah, my psychologist stepdad is cool. I hate the former because it’s depressing and the latter because it’s unrealistic. However, people acknowledge that it’s not an ideal. That’s why Tom Cruise’s son hates him in War of the Worlds.
Homosexuality is portrayed as either normal (which, when it’s only 4% of population, it’s not), idealized, or both. I’ve yet to see an NBC sitcom that shows a gay character talking about going to the bathhouse after work or soliciting sex from a stranger online, which is what my former coworkers did. The homosexual couples i knew who called their relationship a “marriage” also weren’t monogamous. Yes, there are “open” straight marriages, but in gay relationships it’s the majority, while in straight relationships it’s a small fraction. This is destructive to the people living the gay lifestyle, as is gay sex itself. Two of my former coworkers had gone to the emergency room for injuries sustained from sodomy. Not only that, but std’s spread much easier through gay sex. Condoms were designed for straight sex. A woman secretes lubrication that helps the condom “glide” during intercourse. The anus does not. The rates of condom breakage and slippage during gay sex, therefore, is higher, which puts gay men at increased risk for AIDS transmission.
When 25% of gay men in San Francisco are HIV positive, is promoting homosexuality as normal really loving? Do you know how many gay men i heard say they felt guilty because so many of their friends died of AIDS and they were still alive? Do you know how many fatalistic young gay men try to contract AIDS because they see it as inevitable? Or as a form of rebellion? You should go to a bug chasers website sometime.
And if you have a gay brother who doesn’t want to get AIDS, who just wants a relationship, what do you say when he gets ahold of one of these guys who doesn’t get tested regularly for AIDS and doesn’t care if he spreads STD’s? Promiscuity is killing our young people, gay and straight, but it’s more widespread in the gay community. Even lesbians have an average of 8 more partners than their straight counterparts.
Our compassion is to lovingly tell our gay friends and relatives that God loves them and knows that chastity is the only way any of us will be happy. The cross they must bear is chaste celibacy. When you have seen the gay lifestyle in the destructive ways i have, you know that asking someone to be celibate is nothing compared to asking them to die with AIDS, or live with a colostomy bag for the rest of their life. Not to mention the drug and alcohol abuse and depression that typically come with this lifestyle. If i am obsessed with gaiety, it is only because i know how horrible it is and live with the anguish of people i truly care about not asking any better for themselves. I think the people posting on here who aren’t that opposed to homosexuality have never seen a beloved friend in vinyl chaps on his way to a leather bear orgy. Maybe you should actually look at where the gay lifestyle leads before you call us witch hunters. This isn’t about burning them at the stake, it’s an intervention to save their earthly lives and their very souls. Wake up.

Thank you for sharing this.

 

[H_Opey]

Just For Your Infomation,
BUSTER is in a divorced family that is why there is Postcards from Buster, he is traveling with his dad, sending post cards back to mom and his friends like Arthur and Francine in Elwood City. Postcards From Buster is an offshoot of Arthur. Please don’t ask me how I know.
Divorce does come up in our house and we talk about it but I personally feel it is different than homosexuality.
I didn’t know they had made this show involving lesbians.
I will keep my eyes open.
Thank you for letting us know.