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ABC’S NEW AGGRESSIVELY ANTI-CATHOLIC (AND UNFUNNY) PRIME-TIME SITCOM
The Saints Pub ^ | March 13, 2015

Posted on 05/15/2015 6:58:44 AM PDT by NYer

For years the film industry has loved to use the richness of Catholicism to enhance story lines in movies and television shows. They love using our church architecture, confessionals, Rosaries, cassocks, habits, schools, prayers, and traditions because they offer so much visual recognition, drama, and beauty. These are the same reasons Catholics are so ripe for slapstick, which I admit can be funny. However, as America rapidly moves into an era of declining Christianity, we increasingly see our pop culture presence reduced nearly exclusively to cheap laughs and even cruel bigotry.

ABC has decided to double-down on this anti-Christian narrative by working with the often vulgar and always hostile-to-the-Church LGBT “activist” Dan Savage. The show ABC and Mr. Savage have created is called The Real O’Neals which features a Catholic family of five who, along with their priest, is active in their local parish. Judging by the show’s trailer, everyone from the priest all the way to the little girl of the family are selfish hypocrites. Citing hypocrisy among some Catholics isn’t that big of a problem–it exists and is indeed ripe for humor. The issue is that it portrays the problem to be with Catholicism rather than flawed individual characters.

The priest gets called out for driving a Lexus instead of donating to charity. The little girl running the charity is stealing the money. The mom is overly-pious and shallow. The father is a doofus cop that openly refuses to talk about important issues with his family. One child is secretly anorexic and the main character–supposedly Mr. Savage as a teen–just came out as gay while his girlfriend is pressuring him to pressure her to have sex with her using her 48-pack of condoms. Of course the backwards-thinking, conservative parents are more shocked by their son being gay than the other two children’s problems. There’s also a prostitute and a statue of The Virgin Mary in the bathroom to remind the kids to keep the toilet seat down! Just your typical wacky Catholic family, right!?

I think most shows should be fair game for entertainment. However, there’s a difference between shows that are appropriate for HBO and Netflix and shows that are on free, prime-time television, and packaged as a family-friendly, quirky comedy. Prime-time network television should have a higher standard for what subject matter it airs considering their large and impressionable demographic. Shame on ABC.

Contact ABC with your thoughts here.

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Fun Fact: Only family that still goes to church regularly is the Simpson’s! Funny how that used to be the edgy and “inappropriate” show for kids.


TOPICS: Catholic; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: abc; sitcom
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The Real O'Neals (ABC) Official Trailer [HD]
1 posted on 05/15/2015 6:58:44 AM PDT by NYer
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To: Tax-chick; GregB; SumProVita; narses; bboop; SevenofNine; Ronaldus Magnus; tiki; Salvation; ...
Why not try this with a Muslim family and see what happens.

Catholic ping!

2 posted on 05/15/2015 6:59:31 AM PDT by NYer ("You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears." James 4:14)
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To: NYer

It’s not intolerance when WE do it...


3 posted on 05/15/2015 7:06:07 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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When is ABC going to show the Abdullas? You know, that wacky muslim family from San Fransisco, whose uncle is a cross dresser and the family pet is a talking goat......

Yeah, could you imagine the outrage if that happen.


4 posted on 05/15/2015 7:07:28 AM PDT by dragonblustar (Philippians 2:10)
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Oh no!

Can’t do that.

That would be insensitive!


5 posted on 05/15/2015 7:07:57 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: dragonblustar

......buying components to make bombs, making bombs in the basement......making their wives cover them selves,

Hey, this religion sucks the more I learn about it!

VS

Getting to Know God through kindness to others, Brotherhood, charity more....(now that is more like it!)


6 posted on 05/15/2015 7:12:18 AM PDT by Uversabound (Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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To: NYer
Yeah, like "the real Rachman's".

I wonder if Frank Zappa were still around he'd be fatwahed for his Sheik Yerbhouti album?
7 posted on 05/15/2015 7:14:11 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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Old attitudes become new again: had ABC been around in the 1850s, it would have been broadcasting Know-Nothing written sitcoms and serializing The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk.
8 posted on 05/15/2015 7:22:44 AM PDT by Loyalist (Who whom?)
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The priest gets called out for driving a Lexus instead of donating to charity.

Sadly some truth to that one. The late Msgr. Charles Owen Rice, Pittsburgh's famous "Labor Priest" who was all about unions and "da workin' man", was known to drive around town exclusively in high-end German luxury automobiles.

So, when does the ABC sitcom poking fun at Muslims premiere?


9 posted on 05/15/2015 7:22:53 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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When is ABC going to show the Abdullas? You know, that wacky muslim family from San Fransisco, whose uncle is a cross dresser and the family pet is a talking goat......

That actually sounds like it could be pretty funny. Maybe Oscar Meyer would sign on as the sponsor.

10 posted on 05/15/2015 7:25:30 AM PDT by Malone LaVeigh
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How brave of ABC...now try it with a Muslim family. Lets see if you really have balls.


11 posted on 05/15/2015 7:30:16 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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I have an open promise with dan savage - if I ever encounter him on the street I will make him eat his teeth.


12 posted on 05/15/2015 7:34:04 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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Wait. Isn't it wrong to intentionally insult peoples' religion? I mean, that's what the heads were telling us after the Garland shooting. Pam Geller was "asking for it" when she knowingly offended muslimes. So aren't these vermin "asking for it" when they knowingly insult Catholics?

I expect to see a couple of Monsignors with AKs besieging 30 Rockefeller Plaza any moment now ...

13 posted on 05/15/2015 7:45:22 AM PDT by IronJack
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It will last half a season....maybe.

Shows this year are getting slaughtered because we are walking away to new formats, but these idiots just don’t learn. They just keep on pandering to gays and Christian-bashers thinking that they can mine some mythical large group of people for ratings.


14 posted on 05/15/2015 7:46:20 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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Ah, it used to be all Christians but now “they” seem intent on the Catholic Church. We should be proud, it shows that Satan is terrified of Christ’s Church.

When you see the maniacal hatred of some toward the Church it can none but Satan.

But still...no matter how many times they attack, no matter how low they go, the gates of hell shall not prevail and Christ Jesus will overcome.


15 posted on 05/15/2015 7:48:22 AM PDT by tiki
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To: rockrr

Thereby making him even more attractive to potential encounters in park toilet stalls.


16 posted on 05/15/2015 7:50:35 AM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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ABC is the Faggot Network. Has been for years. Disney is also thoroughly polluted with faggotry.


17 posted on 05/15/2015 7:51:18 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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Notify ABC they are subject to a bit of “Catholic Sharia Law”, and see if they get the message.


18 posted on 05/15/2015 7:53:39 AM PDT by G Larry (Obama Hates America, Israel, Capitalism, Freedom, and Christianity.)
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Christians are such a passive target.
19 posted on 05/15/2015 8:11:23 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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And the left say it’s Christians that are intolerant. Go figure.


20 posted on 05/15/2015 8:31:04 AM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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