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Disney Channel and Nickelodeon: Have at least one gay or lesbian main character...
Change.org ^ | Ashlee Edwards

Posted on 03/13/2013 9:48:15 AM PDT by Sopater

In this day and age, young adults and tweens are influenced so much by what they see on tv. Disney Channel and Nickelodeon have shown young love on their shows for many years. They show 11 and 12 year olds flirting and wanting to have relationships. That's fine, tweens have crushes too. But all they've ever shown are straight characters, never openly gay ones. By not including gay characters, they're isolating an entire population of children, who look up to people they see on tv. It is shown that most children know by the time they're 4 years old who they're attracted to. Gay kids need a good role model on safe, appropriate channels, to show them that they're not alone, and it's perfectly normal to be feeling what they feel. I would like Disney Channel and Nickelodeon to have at least one main character who identifies as gay on one of their shows. This could save thousands of lives by showing kids they're not alone, and it's about time these networks show gay, as well as straight, relationships.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: gayagenda; homosexualagenda
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To: Sopater

These people need to be called out for what they are. Pedophiles. Plain and simple. That’s what you call someone who sexualizes children. Don’t let your kids be preyed upon.


21 posted on 03/13/2013 10:08:23 AM PDT by Viennacon
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To: Sopater
"By not including gay characters, they're isolating an entire population of children, who look up to people they see on tv."

If you are looking up to someone you see on TV, you are or will be warped in life.
22 posted on 03/13/2013 10:13:27 AM PDT by Doctor Freeze
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To: Little Ray
There is a reason that Nick and Disney are locked on our home cable system...

Dittos.

23 posted on 03/13/2013 10:20:32 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: dfwgator

I think it is more about allowing anything than just homosexuals. allow any hedonistic act. infidelity, fetishes, drugs, etc. hollyweird performers by profession are to have no identity and with no identity they are in a constant loss of self.


24 posted on 03/13/2013 10:33:59 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Sopater
Being in Canada, when I go to the link and then to the lead web page, change.org/en-CA, it defaults to Canadian petitions only. Among them currently, is one from an organisation called, "Community Living Toronto" which asks for support for a petition to "Reduce Transit Fares for Individuals with an Intellectual Disability".

(sarc.) The cynic in me (unfortunately, often very strong), says that since Tranna is often the cause of Liberal or NDP governments both federally and in Ontario, would this petition not mean that, if successful, most of Tranna should get reduced transit fares? Does that mean those in the hinterlands who visit Tranna, would pay more than full fare to subsidize the lefties in Tranna? (/sarc.)

Now, being serious, if you go directly to the link, Reduce Transit Fares for Individuals with an Intellectual Disability, the first comment, by a Mr. Rivers of Tranna, explains the source of many of the problems that Europe, Canada and the US suffer from, "It is a FUNDAMENTAL ENTITLEMENT"! While those with disabilities often receive very limited pensions, and I feel that they should get a break on transit fares to allow some independence and reduce taxpayer costs, I take offense to the many things that many in our society now feel "entitled" to! Reminds me of that line from Dire Straits' Money for Nothing!: "I want my MTV!"

25 posted on 03/13/2013 10:47:39 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was lost but now I'm found; blind but now I see.)
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To: detective
Children at 4 don't know who they are attracted to

At age 4, my kids were attracted to "The Lone Ranger" and "Hot Wheels Cars", respectively. Suppose I can get a grant to study them?

4 years old....jeez, I bet the publishers of this "study" don't have kids of their own. Or, they have an agenda. Or, both.

26 posted on 03/13/2013 10:47:56 AM PDT by wbill
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To: redhead
Phineas and Ferb are step-brothers, if I understand it correctly.

And that show is hilarious. "Where's Perry?"

27 posted on 03/13/2013 10:48:59 AM PDT by wbill
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To: Doctor Freeze

Bingo. Kids should look up to their parents not some idiot on a screen. Shows that homosexuality warps the mind.


28 posted on 03/13/2013 10:52:51 AM PDT by USAF80
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To: Sopater

Nick and the Disney Channel were only watchable from the 80s to 1995. After that it became manufactured mush used to sell crap and push agendas.

Nick already had a show on their “Teen Nick” network with a teen lesbian.

Most everyone on Disney these days seems to be pretty gay.


29 posted on 03/13/2013 10:58:14 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: USAF80
“...Kids should look up to their parents...”

But on Disney shows the children and tweens always have snappy sarcastic lines when talking to adults. One never hears a “yes sir” and rarely a “please” when asking for something.

The constant wisecracking comments directed toward parents is why I first locked out the Disney Channel. Now there are other reasons too.

30 posted on 03/13/2013 11:00:48 AM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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To: Sopater

“By not including gay characters, they’re isolating an entire population of children, who look up to people they see on tv.”

Yes, they do look up to people they see on tv, which is exactly why the fag lobby wants a fag character on every show, so that more kids will misguidedly look to them as role models.


31 posted on 03/13/2013 11:00:54 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: CharlesWayneCT

“But yes, gays to realize that in order to be a stronger political force, they need more kids to choose to be gay. Because they all know it is a choice, not genetic.”

Gays found out the only way they can reproduce.

By either physical or mental molestation.


32 posted on 03/13/2013 11:01:26 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: wbill
Phineas and Ferb are step-brothers, if I understand it correctly. And that show is hilarious. "Where's Perry?"

Even Baljeet is straight. Go figure. ;)

33 posted on 03/13/2013 11:03:10 AM PDT by kevkrom (If a wise man has an argument with a foolish man, the fool only rages or laughs...)
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To: wbill

I’ve raised four children (two boys/two girls), and my oldest granddaughter. NONE of them showed any interest in the opposite sex until, at the earliest, 11 or 12 years of age. NONE of them exhibited any indications of sexual identity/persuasion, other than normal curiousity, before age 10. These loons who spew such crap about sexual orientation being fixed by age four need to be publically flogged.


34 posted on 03/13/2013 11:04:16 AM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier who has survived 24 months of Combat deployment.)
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To: CharlesWayneCT
And yet I rarely see a show with more than 10 recurring characters on it where at least one of the characters isn’t gay.

Good points. My problem is that the gay characters are presented as the most noble, kind, funny and virtuous people on the set.

35 posted on 03/13/2013 11:08:25 AM PDT by Last Dakotan
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To: Sopater

Thats right.

Show kids how to be homosexuals so that when they engage in a homosexual lifestyle they can cut 30 years off their lifespan.


36 posted on 03/13/2013 11:12:24 AM PDT by kidd
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To: redhead

once again, their timing is impeccable...and by impeccable I mean COMPLETELY PECCABLE!!!


37 posted on 03/13/2013 11:24:23 AM PDT by ItsOurTimeNow ("This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no foolin' around.")
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To: WXRGina

Another example that there is no such thing as a “gay agenda” /s


38 posted on 03/13/2013 11:25:32 AM PDT by logitech (Who's here so vile, that will not love his country? If any speak, for him I have offended)
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To: Sopater

Tune in to almost any show on any station and you’ll be assaulted by gays or the stoyline is gay related. If that’s not enough to turn the idiot box off, then try sitting through a 100 minute movie that commercials have stretched to 2 and a half hours. It’s no wonder why people are living happily tv free.


39 posted on 03/13/2013 11:29:24 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Sopater

HOMOSEXUAL, because there’s nothing GAY about it.


40 posted on 03/13/2013 11:33:16 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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