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New HBO Series Presents Not-So-Angelic Agenda
Crosswalk ^ | December 10, 2003 | Cal Thomas

Posted on 12/11/2003 6:08:30 AM PST by NYer

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1 posted on 12/11/2003 6:08:32 AM PST by NYer
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To: american colleen; sinkspur; Lady In Blue; Salvation; Polycarp; narses; SMEDLEYBUTLER; redhead; ...
Kushner is not God, who spoke through Paul in Romans 1:24-32 about what happens when people dishonor their bodies by choosing to live a homosexual lifestyle.

One more reason NOT to go the extra bucks each month for extended cable. Anyone catch the program?

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2 posted on 12/11/2003 6:11:58 AM PST by NYer (Keep CHRIST in Christmas!)
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To: NYer
I tried watching it the other night in an attempt to see what the fuss was about. Had to switch it off when the two gay guys started getting touchy.

They can do what they want, but I don't have to watch.

And as far as the gays were concerned back in the 80s, there were two causes of AIDS: 1) Ronald Reagan and 2) the pharmaceutical companies.

4 posted on 12/11/2003 6:13:34 AM PST by Pharmboy (Dems lie 'cause they have to...)
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To: NYer
Best thing I did was cancel my HBO subscription. Don't miss the garbage at all.
5 posted on 12/11/2003 6:14:32 AM PST by HarleyD
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To: NYer
More like Fallen Angels...
6 posted on 12/11/2003 6:15:07 AM PST by Pyro7480 ("We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: NYer
I signed up for HBO to see "Band of Brothers."

The morning after it ended, I called them up to cancel.

Never regretted it.

7 posted on 12/11/2003 6:19:02 AM PST by The Iguana
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To: TonyRo76
Sick! Cal is right on target. And I would never subscribe to HBO even if they paid me!!

I agree. They called me and offered 3 months of free HBO and Showtime a number of months back and I told them I didn't want it. At first they thought I didn't understand it was free. They finally understood that I didn't want that sort of trash programming in my home EVEN when it was free.

8 posted on 12/11/2003 6:19:53 AM PST by highlander_UW
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To: NYer
Unfortunately many of these HBO productions end up on the network--Band of Brothers, for example, and I expect others will follow. That's how things become mainstream. Small steps taken by cable networks who ask for premium prices to view this trash...then slowly it makes it way to the networks. Gotta watch this process, like the boiling frog analogy.
9 posted on 12/11/2003 6:22:59 AM PST by sarasota
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To: The Iguana
You should have just waited for the DVD set. HBO sells all their programming.
10 posted on 12/11/2003 6:24:28 AM PST by bmwcyle (Hillary's election to President will start a civil war)
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To: Pharmboy
And as far as the gays were concerned back in the 80s, there were two causes of AIDS:

And as far as I'm concerned in the 80's and now there is only 1 cause of Aids and if that stopped so would the spread of Aids.

11 posted on 12/11/2003 6:24:49 AM PST by Semper Paratus
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To: NYer
I don't wish anything but a cure for AIDS patients, but turning victims of a behavior-related fatal disease into saints is bizarre to say the least. And in fact some of these people were responsible for truly innocent people becoming infected through blood transfusions before blood supplies were screened. Angels my rear.
12 posted on 12/11/2003 6:32:42 AM PST by veronica (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1036919/post-Screenwriting Contest thread/ATTN:FR writers)
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To: veronica
Angels my rear.

Is this a pun?

13 posted on 12/11/2003 6:35:04 AM PST by 2banana
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To: NYer
Al Pacino sank to a new low. He went from macho Michael in The God Father, to a homo Lawyer hiding behind his wedding ring. When he constantly caressed and rubbed the shoulders of his apprentice, in a sexual way, while gazing into his eyes so lovingly, I wanted to puke. Why Pacino took this role is beyond me. Maybe he's gay? I don't know.

The worst part of the movie, was when they actually showed one guy picking up another guy in the park, and both of them going at it, standing up...doggie style. I swear..that did it and I was out of there.

Didn't even want to wait for the appearance of an "Angel", or to find out of the Angel was Gay as well.. This show was disturbing and disquesting.

sw

14 posted on 12/11/2003 6:36:27 AM PST by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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To: NYer
Anybody paying HBO money is part of the problem in this country, IMO.
15 posted on 12/11/2003 6:39:17 AM PST by witnesstothefall
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To: spectre
I've been watching, it's a great drama. Pacino is excellent and the Mormon guy's wife is very good. I feel terribly sorry for those sick men and the people who cared for them. The movie is set 20 years ago when the treatments only marginally postponed the inevitable horrible death.

I've gotten a little insight into the homosexual lifestyle. I don't think it glorifies it, as a matter of fact the married Mormon struggling with his urges is quite moving. But you see plainly see how his actions have destroyed his wife, an innocent in all this. Roy Cohn is protrayed as a strong, effective person, but as creep, which I think is accurate.

I think it is an accurate portrayal of the lifestyle. It hasn't swayed me to think it's natural or okay. And I guess people make their own choices everyday that cost them their health (smoking, drinking, x-treme sports, drugs). I suppose I should have no less sympathy for aids victims as I would for a professional or amatuer athlete crippled on the playing field.

It is a horrible way to die.
17 posted on 12/11/2003 6:51:49 AM PST by YankeeGirl
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To: NYer
tag line
18 posted on 12/11/2003 6:54:55 AM PST by leadpencil1 (Kill your television)
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To: NYer
I had a subscription to the Kennedy Center for years but when I saw this play, I walked out and refused to renew my subscription. (They also had other queer plays on, too).
19 posted on 12/11/2003 7:01:13 AM PST by expatpat
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The problem I have is with the overwrought stereotyping typical of gay-themed productions. You see the strait-laced Mormon married guy, who really is a gay man living a lie. Gays want to claim their population is much higher than 1 or 2% and really many, many more gays are living straight due to societal injustice. They always fall back on the Kinsey report from years ago that claims their number is 10% of the population. The whole victimization issue with no accountability for the actions that caused it is not portrayed at all. The spread was all Reagan's fault.
Also, Pacino as Roy Cohn is very compelling but the Ethel Rosenberg visit is a bit much. They still hang onto the untruth that the Rosenbergs were innocent activists and that Cohn unjustly prosecuted them to their deaths. This is historically false.
20 posted on 12/11/2003 7:02:57 AM PST by untwist
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