Posted on 05/12/2013 4:20:13 AM PDT by central_va
It's been a rough end to what started out as a record-breaking season for openly gay characters on the small screen.
After a 2012-13 season that featured a record number of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender characters on TV, this past week's wave of cancellations may drastically alter those statistics.
Gone are shows that featured prominent gay story lines including NBC's The New Normal and CBS' Partners. Both were semi-autobiographical series about the lives of its nearly all openly gay creators -- Ryan Murphy and Ali Adler on the former, David Kohan (who's not) and Max Mutchnik for the latter -- and featured two happy, committed gay couples. Worth noting, half of both couples were played by openly gay actors -- New Normal's Andrew Rannells (opposite Justin Bartha) and Partners' Michael Urie (opposite Brandon Routh).
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They have plenty of new shows for 2013-2014 to take their place. They will continue to shove them into our lives until they get another Will and Grace, Glee, and Modern Family. We are lucky that The New Normal was cancelled as it was an immoral show, but the next show might be a hit. We are being bombarded with filth. We must keep up the fight! Don’t back down!!!!
Reminds me of the definition of a chain:
You can pull it anywhere——
You cannot push it anywhere.
They’ll just create new shows with more homosexual bullies.
What’s TV? Is it that screen that markets an insane asylum on another planet called NYC? My gut belief is that NYC’s commie elites have so alienated fly-over Americans that they have destroyed another venue and it will not return until Jesus does.
I think they’ve run their course because characters were getting too cozy and physical (kissing, etc.), and heterosexuals are normally repulsed by that. As long as they were a “cute” funny couple with little physical interaction, heterosexual viewers could cope with that.
Which is a subset of the Parent effect, because, no matter what PC things are said in public, parents don't want their child to be gay or want their child continually exposed to gay cultural indoctrination.
I take it you've never watched "Bluebloods".
I’m thinking specifically about “Glee” here.
Yeah, what happened to that show? It started out as a unique idea, and people enjoyed the remakes of songs, dances, etc.... Then slowly, but surely, more and more gay character, story lines, etc... . Not just ‘ok the guy everyone knew was gay came out, let’s move on now’ The last time I tried to watch (my kids never stopped DVRing it, even though they don’t watch any more) it was literally all gay, all the time. I didn’t even see any straight characters. It was bizarre.
In my area, we have a station called MeTV (Memorable Entertainment). They show all the old Westerns (Gunsmoke, Rifleman, Big Valley), Leave it to Beaver, etc. OK, we're Old Fuds, but all those we know who do still watch TV have this station on their list and often mention how the shows got across a moral point, and mirabile dictu, without gratuitous violence and the other tricks used today.
Don’t forget “Duck Dynasty,” a non-scripted show on A&E. That’s one of the most brilliant shows on today. It’s one of the few shows that ends with the family at the dinner table saying a prayer.
I personally have been taking advantage of internet subscriptions that can get me foreign TV shows. I have become a boder-line addict of the Korean mini-series/weekend series shows. There is a great respect for the elderly and family. Some of the best characters are the parents and grandparents. Religion isn’t demonized. Sex is rarely a main component of the plot (even in romances) and hardly ever depicted. Some of the issues seem more “real” or relatable to me than what I see on American TV. The good female characters are awesome compared to what we get stuck with here. They are intelligent, feminine, staunch in their principles, and depending on the plot, can shoot, sword fight, or high-kick their way out of any situation.
Yeah, the GID-Pride Parades probably didn't help them much either.
Ding!, Ding!, Ding!!, Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner!!!
from the JAN 1963 Congressional Record, "The 45 Modern Goals of Communism"
#27 Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a "religious crutch."
from Wikipedia
The Jesus Seminar was a group of about 150 critical scholars and laymen founded in 1985 by Robert Funk under the auspices of the Westar Institute. The seminar used votes with colored beads to decide their collective view of the historicity of the deeds and sayings of Jesus of Nazareth. They produced new translations of the New Testament and Apocrypha to use as textual sources. They published their results in 3 reports: The Five Gospels (1993), The Acts of Jesus (1998), and The Gospel of Jesus (1999). They also run a series of lectures and workshops in various U.S. cities. Their results have been edited and heavily featured, with no explanation as to the origin of this group, on cable TV’s History Channel, PBS, and the National Geographic Channel during the 1st decade of the 21st century.
The seminar's reconstruction of the historical Jesus portrayed him as an itinerant Hellenistic Jewish sage and faith healer who preached a gospel of liberation from injustice in startling parables and aphorisms. An iconoclast, Jesus broke with established Jewish theological dogmas and social conventions both in his teachings and behaviors, often by turning common-sense ideas upside down, confounding the expectations of his audience: He preached of "Heaven's imperial rule" (traditionally translated as "Kingdom of God") as being already present but unseen; he depicted God as a loving father; he fraternized with outsiders and criticized insiders. According to the seminar, Jesus was a mortal man born of 2 human parents, who did not perform natural miracles nor die as a substitute for sinners nor rise bodily from the dead. Sightings of a risen Jesus were nothing more than the visionary experiences of some of his disciples rather than physical encounters.
The seminar treated the canonical gospels as historical sources that represented Jesus' actual words and deeds as well as elaborations of the early Christian community and of the gospel authors. The fellows placed the burden of proof on those who advocated any passage's historicity. Unconcerned with canonical boundaries, they asserted that the Gospel of Thomas may have more authentic material than the Gospel of John.
The seminar held a number of premises or "scholarly wisdom" about Jesus when critically approaching the gospels. They acted on the premise that Jesus did not hold an apocalyptic worldview, an opinion that was controversial in mainstream scholarly studies of Jesus. Rather than revealing an apocalyptic eschatology, which instructed his disciples to prepare for the end of the world, the fellows argued that the authentic words of Jesus indicated that he preached a sapiential eschatology, which encouraged all of God's children to repair the world.
The method and conclusions of the Jesus Seminar have come under harsh criticism by biblical scholars, historians and clergy for a variety of reasons. It was the assertion of such critics that the Fellows of the seminar were not all trained scholars, that their voting technique didn't allow for nuance, that they were preoccupied with Q and the Gospel of Thomas but omitted material in other sources such as the Gospel of the Hebrews, and that they relied excessively on the criterion of embarrassment.
YOU are interested in fags. FAGS are interested in fags. Left-wing elitist social re-engineer's are interested in fags.
Most people are not interested in fags.
You, fags, and left-wing elitist social re-engineers are not enough of an audience to sustain shows about fags. Please adjust your programming accordingly.
Signed,
Not a Fag
I love my family, who was given to me by God.
And I love my friends, who are chosen very carefully by me, based upon their personalities, the love and consideration they show their contemporaries, and how they treat me.
Based upon the words you use in dealing with someone you've never met and talked to, it's unlikely that I'd choose you to have as a friend.
Crawl back under your rock, lobster...
Well said sir, or ma'am (as the case may be) Two of my dearest friends are lesbians, in a committed relationship.
Several years ago my wife had to be in a Rehab center following a nasty bout with Central nervous system Lyme's disease. They took turns visiting her when I could not and made numerous meals for me and even helped with the laundry.
I could make billions in Hollywood by bringing back Gilligans Island, I Dream of Jeannie, The Brady Bunch, etc.
Only perverts and retards watch network TV these days
Secular humanism is at the core of all of it...that is the common denominator.
We are indeed on borrowed time from above.
us too. If I see “Gary and Steve decide it’s time to buy...” or “a newly united loving couple...” I switch it off.
Willie and Phil Robertson will be in Castle Rock, Colorado next weekend, and giving a speech in support of a Christian school here.
If you haven’t heard about Willie speak of Christ, it is well worth your time to go watch one on YouTube.
He does a fine job.
That may be the case, and I was referring to males. I've known many of them, most are dead now, or dying.
Just like the baby-killers and moslems, it's a culture of death.
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