No... I'd have to give that honor to Babs...
Posted on 12/20/2013 4:34:52 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
In the fallout over Wednesday’s suspension of “Duck Dynasty” star Phil Robertson by A&E for anti-gay and racist remarks, GLAAD is experiencing record levels of backlash.
“In the five-and-a-half years I’ve worked at GLAAD, I’ve never received so many violently angry phone calls and social media posts attacking GLAAD for us speaking out against these comments,” the media watchdog organization’s vice president of communications Rich Ferraro told TheWrap.
He said those reactions range from those who simply believe as Robertson believes to those who feel that GLAAD and A&E’s actions limit the reality star’s free speech.
Also read: ‘Duck Dynasty’: Inside the Decision to Suspend Phil Robertson (Exclusive)
“I don’t think this is about the first amendment,” Ferraro said. “I feel it’s more about the America we live in today. That is one where Americans, gay and straight, are able to speak out when people in the public eye make anti-gay and racist remarks.”
Robertson’s supporters have started petitions, called for boycotts and include Sarah Palin, Sean Hannity and Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal. Currently, more than 70,000 people have signed the online petition asking A&E to drop the suspension.
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Yep. The 98% are starting to speak up. Good for America. It's about time.
They said all they wanted was tolerance. Just a little tolerance. That's all.
Remember that lie?
No... I'd have to give that honor to Babs...
GLAAD was formed in the city’s West Village in 1985 to combat defamation in the media, specifically the coarseness and sensationalism running through the New York Post’s coverage of the AIDS epidemic. Its mission and community have since expanded widely, though Ferraro, in his role as chief media advocate, still spends a good deal of time combating words and images that he feels are harmful.
Ferraro, 29, is a small-framed man with short, carefully styled hair, sideburns trimmed perfectly to the middle of his ears, and a clean, fresh face.
Ferraro grew up in Shelton, Connecticut, a small suburban town 75 miles outside of New York City. His family was Italian and Catholic, and his mother went to church every Sunday. He was one of three boys, the second born, and he realized he was gay around seventh or eighth grade. For his freshman year, his parents sent him to a prestigious Catholic school. “I was really unhappy,” Ferraro said. “And I remember sitting down to talk with a priest and telling him I felt different. I didn’t use the word gay, but I knew that’s where things were headed.” He knew because he’d seen gay characters on television shows like Queer as Folk, which he secretly taped in his bedroom with the door locked, covering the recording light on the VCR as a double precaution. “In case my parents came by,” he explained. “I didn’t want them to know what I was doing. I just wanted something I could relate to.” The priest told him he should pray, but that the school would be accepting no matter what. Ferraro decided he would fare better, as an open person, in public school. So he transferred.
He came out at 15, though his hand was forced earlier than planned. He’d been writing about his dilemma with a pen pal, and his mother saw one of the letters. She didn’t care that he was gay, and was upset only because he hadn’t told her first. Together they determined it would be best to wait before telling his father, who, they worried, might be less understanding. But here too, his hand was forced. “We were on a ski lift,” Ferraro remembered. “My dad was asking about my friend Lauren. He wanted to know if I liked her; if maybe I was interested in going on a date. I told him I wasn’t, and he said, ‘Do you like girls at all?’ I was like, ‘No,’ and thankfully we were at the top of the lift, and just skied down the mountain.” To his relief, his father was compassionate, and Ferraro quickly started dating a boy his age, whom he met at a diversity conference while playing gay bingo. They were together for six years, and spent their first Christmas Eve dinner as a couple with Ferraro’s family.
School, naturally, was a more complicated ordeal. “I wanted to be visible,” he said. “I wanted people to know fully who I was.” But, he added, “I was effeminate-acting; I was the short, nerdy kid; I was also the gay kid. I was the only one out, and I think I was the first person to come out in the history of the school.” Students called him a fag and threw french fries at him in the cafeteria, so he often ate lunch alone in a private bathroom stall. He was scared to change in the locker room, and made an effort to stay away from there. When he was a senior, and president of the Spanish club, he entered a “Mr. Student Body” contest. “I did a pretty silly dance routine to a Britney Spears song,” he said. “Two kids shouted ‘faggot,’ and I didn’t care, even though one of the people who shouted was sitting right behind my dad, who almost beat the shit out of him.” For prom, he had to walk across an auditorium stage to buy tickets for him and his boyfriend. “They didn’t know how to handle it,” he said. “I had to give my date’s name, and there was this pause.”
http://www.vocativ.com/12-2013/rich-ferraro-glaad/
Awwwwwwwwwwwww poor homos are upset..put a band-aid on your fanny it will be alright
Yeah I watched that little turd last night on Megyn’s show..said that he has a daughter..Im sorry how the hell did a guy who puts it up another guy’s rear end up with a daughter..poor kid..imagine she wants in on her Dad and his “Partner” doing the nasty, she will be messed up for life
Well, on my side of the family, I have a cousin who “proudly” announced that his youngest son came “out” a few Christmases ago...and that he (my cousin) and his wife were “relieved”...
On hubby’s side, he has a sister who’s a lesbian and two nephews who are “gay”....
How we lucked out so much, I’ll never know....
Yep. There use to ba a career as a newsman. A journalist is by defination writing a journal not news, but personal opinion. We need newsmen, those that write the news without his own opinion. The facts, the whole facts and nothing but the facts.
NFLNetwork
Our boys are all wearing purple tonight in support of #SpiritDay! #SEAvsAZ #TNF pic.twitter.com/pshf4V3zNj
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What is Spirit Day?
An annual day held on the third thursday of October when millions of Americans wear purple to speak out against bullying and to show their support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth.
They wanted to take down a popular conservative icon as punishment for losing Bashir.
-PJ
Gay...bingo. I don't even wanna know.
Really?
Your friend was intimidated by our greatness and superior intellect...
LOL
ditto you are spot on. there is a heck of a lot more hate and attacks coming our way before our side “maybe” starts to take off the gloves.
GLAAD = Marxism
Pray America is Waking
The concept of Sin has also been expunged from many mainstream and prosperity-based churches, which immunize their members against the truth with a false gospel. The falling away is widespread and in full swing.
In 1987, Andres Serrano produced a photograph of Jesus in a jar of urine. Christians who objected to it were lectured that they don’t have to buy tickets and should just allow people to express themselves freely.
Then there was the “art” of the image of Mary rendered in varnished elephant dung. Christians who objected to it were lectured that they don’t have to buy tickets and should just allow people to express themselves freely.
The left (er, “progressives”) have frequently been happy to insult Christians by saying vile things about them and their faith. Christians are told to shut up in the interests of accepting diversity and freedom of expression.
Now comes freedom of expression and diversity from a Christian and the Diversity Police go ballistic. I saw a spokesperson for GLAAAAAD scolding the interviewer that people like Robertson may have freedom of speech but not freedom from the consequences of what they say.
We are told in no uncertain terms that we must not mention the consequences of homosexual activity, like a shorter life expectancy. In the interest of being polite, we must act like it doesn’t matter what kind of sexual morality a person haves. All this is apart from what God plainly tells us: that He considers homosexual acts to be sin and a person who practices such sin cannot inherit eternal life. Any other reading of the several plain texts on the subject is just not honest.
It is this issue that upsets homosexual advocates the most because it is a clear rebuke of the very way they have defined their self-identity. And that is why they say it is “hateful” to state the plain truth about their sin.
Having said that, Jesus in Revelation 22:15 says that no person who practices sexual immorality will be allowed in the kingdom. I hasten to add that a lot of people who consider themselves Bible-believing conservatives on this very forum are living with their girl friends without being married. That is also form of sexual immorality which is far easier to remedy than those who practice homosexuality.
(If you are acting like you are married, why not remove the sin and get married?)
see: Revelation 22:15.
It is God that determines what sin is. It is God who will forgive that sin. Homo groups like GLAAD embrace sin. How will that work out??
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And how in the world do the homos think that Phil or any man can change God’s word to make what they do not a sin?
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