Posted on 08/09/2018 7:48:00 AM PDT by servo1969
When a classic children's book gets turned into a TV series, it's usually a cause for celebration. Usually.
One of the most endearing and enduring books for kids is Anne of Green Gables, a 1908 novel about a Canadian orphan who is adopted by a brother and sister on Prince Edward Island.
It's been filmed a number of times over the years. And given the non-stop campaign to normalize the LGBT lifestyle, it should come as no surprise that the most recent version introduces several homosexual characters.
The Netflix series, titled "Anne with an E," just began its second season. The episodes are charming--until you get to episode seven, in which Anne, her friend Diana Berry, and a boy named Cole attend a gathering at the home of Diana's great-Aunt Josephine. It turns out the party is a "queer soiree," featuring men dressed as women, and wearing heavy makeup, and women dressed as men. They are there to honor the memory of Josephine's departed "partner," Gertrude.
Looking around her, Anne exclaims to Diana, "Isn't this the most amazing group of people!" Well, I can't help thinking that if a sheltered young girl like Anne actually encountered cross-dressing men and women in 1908, she would be shocked and probably frightened--not delighted.
In a scene that takes place in Aunt Josephine's bedroom, Anne observes a novel on Josephine's nightstand. Gertrude was reading it the year before. Josephine tells her the books "sit just where she left them." Anne processes this remark, and then, enlightened, says, "That's what you meant by, in your way, you were married," she says.
"Yes," Josephine replies.
Diana--who is nonplussed by her discovery of her aunt's relationship with Gertrude, tells Anne their love affair was "unnatural."
But the boy Cole--a character who is invented for the TV series--soon straightens her out. "If your aunt lived her life feeling ... that she was broken, defective, or unnatural, and one day she met someone that made her realize that wasn't true . . .shouldn't we be happy for her?"
Cole later confesses to Aunt Josephine that he thinks he is "like you and Gertrude." Josephine tells him, "You have a life of such joy before you."
And in case you missed the gay-is-good point of the episode, the writers have Anne asking another character: "How can there be anything wrong with a life if it's spent with a person you love?"
To answer Anne's question: Plenty. People have suffered greatly through inappropriate "love": For instance, a child whose father decided to love someone other than his wife, or a child who is loved, in an erotic way, by an adult.
It's unlikely that Anne would ever have heard a sermon about homosexuality in her day and age. If she had, she would have known what scripture teaches about homosexual relationships: that they run counter to God's plan for human flourishing.
The gay-themed episode of "Anne with an E" has led many parents to turn the channel. As one of them wrote on the Facebook page of a Christian film review site, "The gay agenda completely ruined a perfectly heartwarming and uplifting story." Another wrote, "I just want wholesome-and no agenda."
Amen to that. Look, the secular world understands the importance of worldview teaching just as Christians do--and often teaches through films and TV programs.
It will become harder and harder to avoid the "gay is good" message in the media. Which is why, as John Stonestreet says, we need to train our children to ask questions about the ideas and characters they encounter. Help them discern truth from error. Because the truth of how God designed human sexuality remains, no matter how LGBT-saturated entertainment gets.
If you have Netflix you already paid for it
There is no gay or lesbian state. Theseare people just who want to have sex with anyone any time. Some these whatever want sex with animals and children. They are just using liberal propaganda to promote their obsessive sexual desires.
What a travesty. Well, at least there’s still the charming version that was shown on PBS (I think) many moons ago. Can you imagine the deafening furor if, say, the works of Dr. Seuss were cleverly rewritten to pillory lefties and glamorize conservative values?
“If you have Netflix you already paid for it”
This should be a bumper sticker.
Or behind him, as the case might be.
Is that illegal?
Why did they use the pronoun “he”? Isn’t she a girl? I get so confused.
...wish I had the talent to give it a try.
My girls are in the process of reading the books and watching the “old” series from the 1980s which has none of this freakery in it. The rainbow reboot gets a “must miss” from us.
Not me, I dropped Netflix the second Obozo got on board.
The left ruins everything! I watched a few episodes of season one with my grand daughter and thought it was a great series for family viewing. No more.
I think that Netflix is going to discover that including LGBT themes just to be progressive will hurt them. I watched the first season of Annie with an E and thought it was good. I had planed to watch this season but now will reexamine the watching till after I see it. the only reason I will watch it at this point is that I don’t like being overly critical of things I have not watched. if I actually see it I can be critical about it and have an honest opinion rather then one based off here say.
My wife and I watched this series. It is heartwarming, although a little disjointed at times.
It’s on my to-don’t list now.
Like dogs marking territory, the Lavender Mafia has to sully everything in sight.
1985 CBC Anne of Green Gables was the best. Megan Follows. Awesome. I bought the DVDs for my kids.
Yes. Too bad later on you find out shes a big lib too, has had a lesbian role in a small indie film. Shes canadian, libbie, doesnt help.
Just stick with “Anne of Avonlea” from 1987.
I thought that show was sappy Disney Channel cheese as a kid. Boy now it sounds pretty damn good compared to this trash!
The just can’t help themselves, can they? They have to sully everything with their crap.
We started watching the “Dangerous Book for Boys” series over on Amazon. Pretty good so far. But it seems these days I am always waiting - regardless of the series or movie - for this kind of propaganda to weasel it’s way in somewhere. Even The Expanse was tainted...
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