Posted on 10/17/2014 7:36:12 AM PDT by Kaslin
While the cultural commissars keep throwing praise and awards at raunchy shows on trendy Internet streaming channels, CBS has a series of highly-rated traditional police or military shows that get no attention or respect. "NCIS" keeps spinning off shows -- this year in New Orleans -- and "Blue Bloods" is a consistent Top 20 performer despite airing on Friday night. You won't see its star Tom Selleck at Emmy awards time.
"Blue Bloods" deals with an Irish-Catholic family of cops, headed by New York police commissioner Frank Reagan, played by Selleck. Some Catholics became fans of the show as a rare portrayal of a church-attending Catholic family dealing with today's thorny issues.
Some controversial topics lend themselves to debate. But the Hollywood left has another view of its pet causes. There is no moral relativism. There is right and there is wretchedly wrong.
On Oct. 10, someone at CBS pushed for a Very Special Episode on homosexuality -- and the allegedly horrific Catholic stance on it. At the opening of the episode, a policeman is "outed" by being at a crime scene in a gay neighborhood. This leads to Selleck's police commissioner having to discuss it at a press conference.
A reporter -- clearly speaking for Hollywood -- sneers at the top cop: "The Catholic Church condemns homosexuality as a sin, and the commissioner is famously Catholic. How do you line up your anti-gay faith with your role as an equal-opportunity employer?" Selleck's character replies: "What my men and women do in private is their own business."
The reporter shoots back: "So you only condemn homosexuality on Sunday?" All Selleck's character can offer is, "Well, I do believe the church is a little behind the times on this. But then, I still miss the Latin Mass; so next question."
This clumsy non sequitur spurred the rest of the show's plot. The producer wheels in a new character, Cardinal Brennan -- a stand-in for Cardinal Dolan of New York -- painted as a good friend of the commissioner's. Over lunch, he demands a public apology for the anti-Catholic slur over lunch -- although he apparently agrees in private that the church teaching is wrong.
"Come on Greg, give me a break. You and I have talked for hours about ways the Church needs to reform," Selleck's character laments. The cardinal replies, "Alone, in private, just between us men." The commissioner drags in the clergy sex-abuse scandals: "I do believe the church is backwards on this. And of all the stands to hold onto, in the midst of the scandals of the past decades." The cardinal shoots back "The Catechism of the Catholic Church remains firm on the matter, Frank." He then holds out his ring for an outraged Selleck to kiss.
CBS doesn't care that the Catechism's paragraphs on homosexuality preach "respect, compassion, and sensitivity" to people with homosexual attractions. That's never enough for Hollywood. The minute it suggests these men and women are "called to chastity" to avoid sin and "fulfill God's will," the conversation is over.
The episode's stick-figure propaganda continued. Because of his refusal to apologize, the commissioner is removed as guest of honor from a fundraising banquet for his old parish school. The episode ends with a religious sister who runs the school. Here comes another liberal plot twist. She confides, "Commissioner, the day I entered the convent started on the train platform in Madison, Wisconsin, where I kissed my girlfriend goodbye," and "there's never been a day I'm ashamed of who I was before, so thank you."
At CBS, the kangaroo court convenes, and the defendant is guilty before the episode is even written. It's an eyebrow-raiser when a network knowingly drives a program's natural audience away because it can't help but scratch a persistent leftist itch.
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Jesus was betrayed with a kiss. I don't really get the ring kissing either but it must be pretty important to last all these centuries.
Guess I need to extend my studies to find out what it means!
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Good looking and in terrific shape!
Heterosexuals, get in shape - the homosexuals are gaining on us!/s
Mr. hummingbird and I are going to start counting!
It seems a very human thing to do when presented with something that you don't know what to do about.
Instead of jumping to conclusions, Frank....sighs first....and delivers opinion later after mulling it over a bit!
Start your clicker/counters!
And I thought I was the only person on earth who has seen Koyaanisqatsi. I saw it because I admire the music of Philip Glass. Some of the imagery from the film still haunts me.
And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. —Matthew 23:9
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Absolutely!
I haven't seen it in years but it still sticks in my mind.
Not everyone's cup of tea....glad to see you share the same tea on Philip Glass and Koyaanisqatsi!
What my men and women do in private is their own business.
Not so when they want to change the law of the lane and request special treatment then it’s ever ones business.
+1
I tried to tell one of my sisters something to that effect when she started watching “Glee”. She just loved all of the performance numbers, but, after watching about 5 minutes of it, I told her that the show was trying to make her see homosexuality in a better light by presenting perverts as likable characters.
She continued to watch until they apparently crossed some line for her, and she stopped watching.
Another sister loves Tom Selleck and got into “Blue Bloods” about a year or so ago. She told me about how great the show is and about the appeal of the Catholic faith and the family cohesiveness. So, back around the beginning of the year, we began DVRing, even though we just don’t usually watch such programming.
Some of the shows were pretty good, but then I noticed that they were introducing more and more of the pro-homosexual agenda. I predicted early on that the granddaughter of Selleck’s character will be portrayed eventually as a homosexual. Hasn’t happened yet, though.
Anyway, this same sister was visiting recently, and she sat down with the DH and me to watch on DVR the episode mentioned in this article. I got up and left the room during the commissioner’s meeting with the cardinal. Not going to watch it ever again.
Sister says she will keep watching, and she and that other sister continue to watch “Modern Family”, which is a comedy series that includes a pair of homosexual men who call themselves married and have adopted a child.
*any perceived coordination with certain attendees at the Synod is purely coincidental.
These scripts write themselves. They’re cartoonish.
The granddaughter on the show has a boyish haircut which many “lesbian” females prefer. Wouldn’t be surprised if they have her come out as gay.
:-)
CBS is just following the herd and bowing to the homosexual agenda by trying to force us to accept that which we do not. They think they can change our minds if they keep putting it in shows and movies.
I love the show and wished the writers had done a better job of touching on a hot topic. CBS has a lot of shows I like, and must give them kudos at least for providing serious shows more inclined toward adults (not the reality stuff).
BTW, the cop that got “exposed” as gay? His immediate family (latino? catholic?) apparently don’t give in to the the “politically correct police” (pop) because they ostracize homosexual members.
Well, this viewer will not be around to witness that charming plot development. Done with that show.
that is a very logical response.
I think the left at CBS are gleeful idea of ridiculing good with evil.
It is only a matter of time before they make Tom Seleck utter left wing words or have his character captitulate to left wing ideology.
(in the same way the left made a movie with Richard Gere APPOLOGIZING to japan, symbolically, for dropping the big ones on Nagasaki and Hiroshima)
not just CBS.
the New Doctor Who from BBC went all homosexual with their premier. I no longer watch or care to see this Dr. Who.
As for ABC and NBC nope..Fox I love Family Guy and Simpsons and Hell's Kitchen.
I don’t watch any Network television what soever. My TV channel is set on FOX News, the only thing I record from the Fox channel is FOX News Sunday. I watch it then on my DVR after Fox and Friends. This way I can fast forward when liberals are on. I have no interest what they have to say
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