Posted on 12/19/2019 10:39:48 AM PST by powermill
The pro-LGBTQ media is now giving advice to the Hallmark Channel on how best to redress offending gays after the network reversed their decision to pull a lesbian ad last week. Of course, it came as no surprise that entertainment outlet Indiewire insisted that Hallmark make a gay movie to prove where its loyalty really lies.
You’ve already bent the knee, Hallmark, but you’re going to have to kiss the rainbow ring.
Indiewire.com’s Jude Dry composed his best thoughts on how Hallmark should provide restitution for its LGBTQ fumble claiming that although the cable station “apologized for pulling commercials showing a lesbian wedding...a movie featuring a same-sex couple would have a greater impact.”
Right. That sounds like every ransom note sent to Chick-fil-A by LGBTQ groups before the chicken restaurant caved.
For conservatives, particularly One Million Moms — the conservative group that encouraged Hallmark to pull the Zola ad featuring a lesbian wedding — this adds insult to injury. On top of Hallmark distancing from conservatives, and apologizing and expressing desire for more gay ads after LGBTQ backlash, the media jumped on One Million Moms and other “anti-LGBTQ” groups, tarring and feathering them with smears like the SPLC’s infamous “Hate Group” label. Indiewire’s advice is again asking the once apolitical channel to continue thumbing its nose at conservatives.
Dry wrote, “But if Hallmark really wants to make an impact and show the LGBTQ community its commitment to inclusivity, it should greenlight an LGBTQ script ASAP.” For the left, apologizing is not enough and it’s clear that Hallmark must make a hard pivot left to stay in their good graces.
We could forgive the average consumer for seeing this as some desire to make things more PC — well, that is, if the outlet weren’t citing LGTBQ talking points from militant and domineering forces like the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation to be persuasive. Indiewire cited GLAAD’s President Sarah Kate Ellis who claimed, “The Hallmark Channel’s decision to correct its mistake sends an important message to LGBTQ people and represents a major loss for fringe organizations, like One Million Moms.” Interesting, considering Ellis’ organization represents a measly 4 percent of the population, but demands 20 percent of TV characters be LGBTQ by 2025, for the sake of “inclusivity.”
Clearly Ellis is part of a very loud minority that the media allows to punch above its weight. Talk about tyranny of representation. Dry quoted her again, saying, “LGBTQ people are, and will continue to be a part of advertisements and family programming and that will never change.” Is that a threat?
It’s not hard to see what GLAAD and other LGBTQ groups are so interested in. Indiewire mentioned that Hallmark, “famous for its cookie-cutter scripts and cheesy, feel-good romances, has never featured a same-sex couple in a main storyline.” Uh oh, that’s a big problem. Dry featured a quote from Zola commercial director Lauren Sick, who claimed, “I truly hope that they fulfill their public promise to be more inclusive moving forward.” Yeah, considering how Chick-fil-A was forced to capitulate, Hallmark won’t have a gentle alternate course.
They should just slap something together with their writing, acting, producing, directing, editing interns and call it a day.
Why not, as long as it approximates reality. Have a movie with a gay man who suffers from numerous mental disorders and ends up shooting innocent people in a gun-free zone. Or something to that effect.
Let GLAAD or whatever group raise the funds, do their movie, then sell it to whoever has the desire to buy it. Like the adults do instead of forcing other people to spend their money to appease these groups.
‘Course, then they run into the whole “can’t make a profit with that production” kinda thing, but at least they’ll have bought a life lesson for their cash.
I thought those movies all were gay.
If they ever have “Brokeback Christmas” on Hallmark, I’m sure millions of clicks to change the channel will happen.
Who didn’t see that coming?
No, they don’t.
Don’t like what you see on Hallmark? Change the channel. Worked for me for nearly everything on the major “broadcast” networks.
Make the crappiest low budget no-name actor LGBTQ movie ever seen and call it good.
I got in trouble the other day when this subject came up in the office, a young lady turned to me and said “And how do you view lesbian porn?” To which I replied, “usually in HD.” Which apparently was the wrong answer, so, now I’m off to HR...ba dump bump!
Proggies hate Hallmark, like they hate CfA, BSA, Christianity, Judaism, conservatism, morality, virtue, normalcy.
The left is deviant at heart. A bunch of deviant devils.
Why not include Bestiality?
EXACTLY. Hallmark is everything they resent about America in one channel !
Oh wait, we’ve seen this one, isn’t it called “The Pulse nightclub shooting.”
One lesson which conservatives need to have tattooed to their forearms: never apologize to a leftist, never give in to their outrage.
Because once you show weakness, they will never stop their demands.
Why don’t they just start their own channel? They can have all the gay kissing they want.
Isn’t forcing Hallmark to broadcast pro-LGBQTWXYZ and anit-Christian movies akin to forcing all the other networks to broadcast pro-straight and pro-Christian movies?
Oh, that’s right. It’s only bigoted if their ‘stuff” isn’t normalized.
boycott.
Yep. The whole thing is just silliness.
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