Posted on 11/24/2014 10:49:52 AM PST by servo1969
It’s called being a sore-loser. As journalists’ latest cause &nndash; pushing for the cancellation of the Duggar family show – fell flat, the media had a meltdown, complete with name-calling and murder accusations.
A three-month-old Change.org petition demanding TLC cancel its “19 Kids and Counting” show reached 150,000 signatures Nov. 22. The petition bashed the show’s stars, the Duggar family, for “LGBTQ fear mongering.” In response, LifeSite organized a counter-petition on that now boasts 180,000 signatures – after four days. While TLC stayed silent, media attacked the “homophobic” family and faulted Michelle Duggar of “think[ing] that she’s stabbing gay Americans” while “bloodying herself.”
On Sunday, Nov. 23, LifeSite posted an update acknowledging their petition’s win against the media:
We did it! We have surpassed the massive anti-Duggar petition on Change.org. And we did it with pure grassroots power, while the anti-Duggar petition had HUGE media support.
Proof of that claim? The anti-Duggar petition author himself. “We reached our goal of 100,000 so quickly once the media picked up the story,” Jim Wissick wrote in an update.
Wissick began his petition after Michelle Duggar opposed a transgender bill in Fayetteville, Arkansas. In a call to residents in August, Duggar warned about the new law (a move he deemed “bigotry”) that allowed men to use women’s bathrooms and locker rooms:
I don’t believe the citizens of Fayetteville would want males with past child predator convictions that claim they are female to have a legal right to enter private areas that are reserved for women and girls.
Wissick’s petition won the headlines of outlets including E! Online, CBS, CNN, The Washington Post, Raw Story,&nbsnbsp;The Huffington Post, International Business Times, Hollywood Life and Bustle.
But the worst example by far came from TIME. Brian Moylan, who also writes for The Guardian, Vulture and (formerly) Gawker, called out Michelle Duggar – the “human baby factory” – in his piece entitled, “Thank You, Duggars, Your Homophobia Is Really a Public Service.”
Comments from socially conservative reality-TV stars like the Duggars or the Duck Dynasty’s Robertsons, he wrote, “hopefully” show “those out there who may not be very hospitable to the ‘gay lifestyle’ that bigotry is distasteful no matter how it manifests itself.”
“No matter how much it sucks, we have to just take it on the chin every time one of these yahoos has the bright idea to spout off,” he continued. “Every time a reality star says something ignorant about the LGBT community, a gay angel gets her wings.”
Finally, Moylan really ratcheted up his rhetoric:
Oscar Wilde, one of the world’s most public and tragic gay men, said “True friends stab you in the front.” There is no doubt in my mind that there are plenty of misinformed people in America carrying daggers against gay people, including those who have a public forum to discuss those views. Why would we want them hiding that hatred in the shadows when, out in the open, it can be diffused, acted on and used as a teaching tool to get more people on our side. We should all thank Michelle Duggar. She thinks that she’s stabbing gay Americans in the front, but what she’s really doing is bloodying herself.
What’s the definition of bigotry again? Or fear-mongering? I forget …
Unlike with Wissick’s petition, the media have proven reluctant to dedicate headlines to the more successful LifeSite petition. Some have though, including E! Online, US Weekly and International Business Times.
But the media censorship wasn’t enough for Wissick, who is now aiming for 500,000 petition signatures:
Please keep sharing the link to your FB friends, Twitter, Google+ and other social media outlets! Please also write letter to the editor of your local and non-local papers telling them why you think the Duggar's bully pulpit needs to be taken from them.
Like Wissick, LifeSite also called for continued action:
We need to start pressuring the media to stop ignoring the pro-Duggar counter-effort. E-mail your local TV and radio stations, take to Twitter and post using the #DefendtheDuggars hashtag and tag a journalist or media network in your post.
Other petitions supporting the Duggar family’s show include a petition shared on Michelle Duggar’s Facebook page (55,000), a LifeNews petition (30,000 signatures), a Personhood USA petition (22,000), an alternative Change.org petition (10,000 signatures) and an American Family Association petition.
The three broadcast networks, ABC, NBC and CBS, have not yet noted the controversy.
The ninth season of the Duggar family show premiered this September.
Prov 8:36
But he that sins against me wrongs his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
Duggars => life & light
The left viscerally HATES them.
I would have a tad more sympathy for the Duggars if they didn’t put their foreplay on the internet.
So the great gay “justice” cause these days is co-ed toilets. Wow! Just wow.
I would have a tad more sympathy for the Duggars if they didn’t put their foreplay on the internet.
...???
So the great gay “justice” cause these days is co-ed toilets. Wow! Just wow.
...it won’t be long before some loon imagines him/herself to be a cat, and will demand shared space in the litter box...
“Hey! If you wanna hug homosexuals, go join another tank. Go join a homosexual tank. This is an American tank. We speak American here.”
Few are filled with as much hate and as intolerant as the homosexuals...
I’m pro-Duggar, although I rarely see any of it unless I’m at my daughter’s when it’s on. I’m proud that my 2 granddaughters and their parents together enjoy watching a functional family, wherein love of God, chastity before heterosexual marriage, respect for parents, and other wholesomeness is routine.
The Dad in the family makes it a point to be there approving of the Duggars’ activities when the program is on. That will stay with those 2 girls a loooong time.
Praise Jesus!
They kissed.
The homonazis at it again? “Gay angels”, me eye-he must mean Lucifer’s minions, aka demons. The sodomites tried to rape the angels who visited Lot.
I’m not concerned with the Duggars in particular, never have seen the show, but I am very sick and tired of the homonazis trying to shut down the free speech of others, especially Bible-believing Christians, who oppose their perversion. I’m-not-holding my breath for them to ever take on the Muslims, who execute sodomites.
I don’t believe the citizens of Fayetteville would want males with past child predator convictions that claim they are female to have a legal right to enter private areas that are reserved for women and girls.(Emphasis added.) She didn't oppose it in the general sense for transgenders. Rather, her point (as I see it) was, "I'm not opposed in principle, but because we cannot prevent abuse by, say, convicted sex predators, maybe we shouldn't do this."
How on earth is that anti-gay? It's anti-child predator, sure. Are these haters themselves suggesting that anti-predator IS anti-gay??
I totally agree with her.
They kissed.
...ah, kissing equals foreplay...I can see that...
...your response should be directed to post #3, which my post was questioning...
I wasn’t opposing you, just adding my 2 cents worth :)
I wasn’t opposing you, just adding my 2 cents worth :)
...ah, then...and your tuppence are of course correct...
You can see it you squint.
You can’t claim to be modest and chaste and then put highly stylized photos of yourself making out on the internet and ask for attention for said acts.
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