Hispanic TV Network Stands by Show on Ex-‘Gays’

Concerned Women for America ^ | 04/12/04 | Martha Kleder

[coffeebreak]

Univision holds its ground, despite fire from homosexual activists.

Univision, the nation’s largest Spanish-language television network, is standing by its new talk show, Casos de Familia, despite criticism from homosexual activists. On March 25, the show topic was “curing homosexuality with religion.”

“We broadcast quality programs that present an objective and balanced discussion of such issues as race, culture, gender and sexual preference in a responsible way,” said Univision statement.

“I hope they hang tough,” said Robert Knight, director of CWA’s Culture & Family Institute. “Most broadcasters don’t have the courage to withstand the kind of lobbying that homosexual activists inflict on their targets. To them, tolerance is a one-way street from which you can make only left turns.”

Former homosexual Stephen Bennett cheered Univision’s stance.

“I am not only glad that Univision stands behind the broadcast, but that they used the term ‘sexual preference’ over ‘sexual orientation’ in their statement,” Bennett said.

“Thousands have walked away from homosexual desires to lead healthy, fulfilled lives,” he said. “But that news isn’t often told because radical homosexual activists try to punish anyone or any organization that suggest it. To have a broadcast network air such a program and then defend it, rather than couch it as a grave mistake when challenged, is rare and brave.”

In the broadcast with conservative religious leaders, hostess Judith Grace made several comments that the radical homosexual pressure group Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) criticized.

“Would it be that all [homosexuals] have been abused, hence their sexual preference?” Grace said.

“Let’s stop our relatives from touching/abusing our own children so they do not end up like this,” she added.

GLAAD immediately launched a campaign to pressure the show’s advertisers. Pizza Hut had already pulled its advertising from the show.

Other advertisers in the crosshairs of homosexual activists include Sears, Universal Studios Hollywood, KFC and Hershey’s.

“The news that homosexuals can change is one of hope,” Bennett added. “And radical activists will stop at nothing to keep that message from being heard.”

[coffeebreak]

I plan on sending the advertisers of the program a letter or email saying that I will stop doing business with any company that DOESN'T support this Univision program.

Slightly off topic but, if I go to a store around Christmas time and they don't have noticeable Christmas decorations, I will take my business elsewhere. If Pizza Hut isn't on the right side of the ex-gay issue I can find another pizza place.

[KillBill]

Even though I personally think that the people on the show are wrong, I don't see how what they said should cause the advertisers to drop out. These techniques are all-too-often used to pressure groups to take the left-wing agenda, and should be stopped.

[sinktheslimes]

the "bullyfags" will go after the sponsors like they did against the boyscouts...but one must applaud the univision for its wonderfully moral position

[Dataman]

“Let’s stop our relatives from touching/abusing our own children so they do not end up like this,” she added.

[little jeremiah]

Homosexual Agenda Ping.

Good news for Spanish speaking TV watchers and supporters. Good that they are sticking up for the truth and the right of free speech, even though homosexual promoters are attacking them.

Odd that the good news that homosexuals can change is like a silver stake and garlic to vampires.

Let me know if anyone wants on/off this pinglist.

[KillBill]

Odd that the good news that homosexuals can change is like a silver stake and garlic to vampires.

IF it were true, I am sure that most homosexuals would endorse it. However, efforts to "change" homosexuals into heterosexuals have only affected actions, not thoughts, and is as meaningful as saying that taking an oath of celibacy "cures" someone of being heterosexual.

[coffeebreak]

IF it were true, I am sure that most homosexuals would endorse it. However, efforts to "change" homosexuals into heterosexuals have only affected actions, not thoughts, and is as meaningful as saying that taking an oath of celibacy "cures" someone of being heterosexual.

No, it is true. Most homosexuals LEARN the behavior in childhood. Just ask people who are former homosexuals if they are still attracted to the same sex; most will say no. Your mistaken view is a very common one though. Most people think they are ALL born that way.

[little jeremiah]

Since there are thousands of "ex-homosexuals", you are basically speaking out of ignorance. Have you read any of the articles in the Homosexual Agenda Index? There are hundreds of articles, organized by topic and date, using data from a wide spectrum of researchers and findings. I urge you to inform yourself better.

You are basing your statements on the presumptions that:

A. Homosexuality is inborn and therefore unchangeable, like race or sex.
B. The normal and natural state of being attracted to the opposite sex is in every way equal to the unnatural and inhealthy state of being attracted to the same sex.

Both presumptions are erroneous, although used as propaganda by homosexual radicals and activists.

Have you read anything by Tammy Bruce? She is a homosexual who does not accept the above presumptions. You should check out her articles or books.

[KillBill]

Since there are thousands of "ex-homosexuals", you are basically speaking out of ignorance. Have you read any of the articles in the Homosexual Agenda Index? There are hundreds of articles, organized by topic and date, using data from a wide spectrum of researchers and findings. I urge you to inform yourself better.
No. I am new here. How can I read those articles? The only evidence I ever am shown are a few case studies, and case studies can prove most anything.

You are basing your statements on the presumptions that: A. Homosexuality is inborn and therefore unchangeable, like race or sex. B. The normal and natural state of being attracted to the opposite sex is in every way equal to the unnatural and inhealthy state of being attracted to the same sex.
Just the first one, I don't completely agree with the second, and thus my logic isn't really based on that.

[little jeremiah]

Check out post #22 on this thread, there's links there to the articles of which I speak.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1110556/posts?page=22#22

Hours of edification.

[scripter]

How can I read those articles?

There are nearly 500 articles sorted by category and date at the link below:

Homosexual Agenda: Categorical Index of Links (Version 1.1)

I'm working on an update as time allows.

[GeronL]

Go Univision Go

[GeronL]

Domino's, Pizza Inn, Mr. G's, Papa Johns and probably a hundred independents.

We even have a Mexican Pizza Place out here, Pizza Patron.

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

efforts to "change" homosexuals into heterosexuals have only affected actions, not thoughts, ..... as meaningful as saying that taking an oath of celibacy "cures" someone of being heterosexual.

Even if what you said were true, consider this ---

My father in law once told me that seven years after his last cigarette, the urge for nicotine still "called" to him on occasion. So then, would we be justified in putting quotes around "cured" when referring to his ex-smoking habit? Would it be false to refer to him as an "ex-smoker"?

Suppose someone considers himself an "ex-adulterer" because he has managed to remain faithful to his wife for many decades now. But suppose also that pretty women still catch his eye: Can we therefore confidently inform him that he remains an adulterer because the thoughts are still there even if he does not act on them?

Is an alcoholic always an alcoholic - even years after his last drink - if the urge to imbibe still hits him on occasion?

[ThirstyMan]

Correct! and well said!

What is at issue here is embracing a deviant practice as morally equal.

All sins have a lustful power, from gluttony to sexual deviancy. A glutton has food cravings which need to be tempered...well...that is, in order for him to enjoy true health. To teach the glutton contrary, that over indulgence is his only option, is to enslave him forever in his unhealthy sinful behavior.

The homosexual humanisms teach all that they MUST celebrate their every urge as natural and equal. We shouldn't buy this false teaching for a second. It is God who has taught me better than that! I did not learn it on my own and such false teachings have not built our Nation.

Homosexuality is one devilish decadent indulgence among all the other vices and to think that anyone can be a wanton consumers of his lusts and still remain an equivalent moral member of society is pure crap.

[scripter]

I just read this:

However, efforts to "change" homosexuals into heterosexuals have only affected actions, not thoughts, and is as meaningful as saying that taking an oath of celibacy "cures" someone of being heterosexual.

That's untrue. From where did you get this information?

[EdReform]

Bump

What We Can Do To Help Defeat the "Gay" Agenda
( www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1076476/posts )

Homosexual Agenda: Categorical Index of Links (Version 1.1)
( www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1026551/posts )

Culture of Vice
( www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/977884/posts )

TRUTH WITHOUT INTERRUPTION DAY-- APRIL 21, 2004
( www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1106288/posts )

[EdReform]

Evidence Found for Effectiveness of Reorientation Therapy

Reorientation Therapy and the Politically Correct American Psychological Association

Homosexual Activism in the American Psychiatric Association and the Removal of Homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)

[little jeremiah]

Great comments, both of you!

One related point is that if people are thinking of themselves as nothing more than a collection of atoms, molecules, and chemicals, living on earth by a series of meaningless accidents, with no more purpose than an amoeba, then every desire that flits through the mind might as well be acted upon. In such a meaningless existence, the only purpose is whatever instant gratification can be found, and why have any restrictions on same?

But when people consider that their existence is more than just the physical system, and the purpose of existence is more than just temporary flashes of whatever the senses or mind can gratify themselves with, the whole picture changes. A person who identifies as something more than just a collection of cravings, spurtings and electrical connections can tolerate or witness various desires that the mind may come up with, without being swayed by such desires. In fact, the desires come to be like clouds - they cover the sun for a while, and then blow away.

And the more crap we put in the mind via pornography and the viler types of entertainment, the darker and more vile our desires. Funny, that.

[ThirstyMan]

[Thanks for the previous affirmation!]

In such a meaningless existence, the only purpose is whatever instant gratification can be found, and why have any restrictions on same?

Yeah, the step into secular materialism often starts philosophically with something like the darwinian "creation" story and it ends with a person who is devoted to his own appetites.
Isn't this the only "logical" option? [without any knowledge of God, that is] Logically the blind [those without any knowledge of God] will become Epicureans, devoted wholly to their own sensual pleasure, within certain "reasonable" bounds of course.
And if you look at who we have become as a society of late, the balance of our population is teetering very closely to the majority operating out of pure self interest.

Only God can rescue us from this body of death preceeded by as much sensula pleasure as we can take, as I'm sure you know LJ. We need to be praying for our Nation and working with people locally, that it/they would see its/their sin for what it is and repent.

ThirstyMan

[biblewonk]

What a wonderful thing in a country that is otherwise turning into Sodom.

[Varda]

Good for Univision. I'm always intending to learn Spanish, this will now be my submersion teacher of choice.