Posted on 02/28/2017 2:08:49 PM PST by drewh
ABC's eight hour gay propaganda event When We Rise isn't afraid to go low right off the bat. Monday night's episode immediately gets into the leftist activism with a montage bashing Republicans and comparing gay rights to the fight against Nazism and the Civil Rights movement - and it all goes down hill from there.
Created by LGBT activist Dustin Lance Black, who won an Oscar for Best Screenplay for Milk in 2009, the four night miniseries follows the lives of liberal gay activists Cleve Jones, Ken Jones, and Roma Guy from the 1970s to the modern day.
“Night I” starts in 2006 with Cleve Jones (Guy Pearce) giving an interview where he quickly runs through the last few decades of LGBT history in America. Clips of hated social conservatives Sen. Jesse Helms and President George W. Bush are shown speaking out against homosexuality and gay marriage, but shockingly President Ronald Reagan isn’t mentioned. I’m sure the left-wing conspiracy theories that Reagan encouraged the spread of AIDS will be coming when the series hits the 80s epidemic. LGBT sacred martyr Matthew Shepard is referenced, “Those who truly hate us…are trying young men to fences in Wyoming and cracking their skulls open.” Of course, we now know that Shepard’s murder, horrific as it was, was not a hate crime.
Cleve: I was close to my grandparents. I grew up listening to their stories of World War I, watching the German dirigibles being shot down over London and of course my mother's stories of the Depression and World War II, how each generation has its own epic confrontations that it must face ...the black Civil Rights Movement, the women's movement, Vietnam. Reporter: War protestors gathered for a dramatic and unprecedented appeal to the U.S. Government to end the war in Vietnam. Cleve: I knew what I was called to do. Not as an individual -- as part of my generation. But over half of us are gone now. You know, from the beginning of the epidemic, our fear was that everything we'd worked for would just be swept away --our neighborhoods... the cultural caldrons ...the freedoms we built and won. And those who truly hate us... Sen. Jesse Helms: "Gay" used to be a beautiful word. It has been corrupted. Man on news: I believe in hell. I believe these fags are going to hell. Cleve: ...are tying young men to fences in Wyoming and cracking their skulls open, with George W. Bush threatening constitutional amendments against our families. George W. Bush: Today I call up on the Congress to promptly pass an amendment to our constitution defining and protecting marriage as a union of a man and woman. Cleve: I could go to my grave a criminal again.
This, combined with all the gay characters kissing and hooking up in various states of undress within the first 10 minutes, is not exactly a friendly and accessible overture to Middle America, but creator and gay activist Dustin Lance Black insists, “I think a lot of people who voted for Donald Trump will love this show. I don’t see this show as trying to speak to only half of the country — I didn’t write the show for half the country.”
Forget half the country, only a tiny fraction of the country would even be remotely interested in this miniseries, it is quite tedious and completely centers on leftist issues to the exclusion of any compelling storylines or character development.
Ostensibly about the gay rights movement, it quickly becomes clear that it is about all the radical social justice movements of the 70s, with Cleve’s past marching against Vietnam, for the Equal Rights Amendment, and with Cesar Chavez, and Roma organizing rallies to stop violence against women and becoming too radical for even the feminist group the National Organization of Women. As Cleve says, they seek to smash societal norms like, “Marriage, military, religious, white, male, cop, supremacy crap.”
There are so many leftist tropes checked off in the first two hours, I can only imagine what’s coming in the next six. Arrogant Vietnam naval leader who ignores his crew’s advice leading to the death of his men? Check. Catholic mom who had 10 pregnancies and wants “better” for her daughter? Check. Racist commanding officer who makes black Medal of Honor recipients go to the back of the bus? Check. Evil, sexist, homophobic cops who beat up defenseless women and gays while they chant, “Stop The Violence?” Check. African American character who leaves a black church that rails against homosexuality then is kicked out of a gay bar for being black? Check.
With all the talk today about homophobia, When We Rise surprisingly brings attention to heterophobia. Cleve tells one of his lovers, “I say we just get rid of all the heterosexuals. They're so boring.” Can you imagine if a straight character said, "Let's get rid of all the homosexuals?" Another woman declares, “The traditional heterosexual model for relationships is monogamy...so I suggest that we abandon that model” for a three-way lesbian relationship. Yeah, wouldn't want to follow heteros' model of marriage...
Black repeatedly talks about his conservative Christian family, how he wants his work to reach people like them, and how important it is for the show to be on a major network like ABC, not just preaching to the choir on HBO, but this series is the very definition of preaching to the choir: a liberal LGBT activist show, by liberal LGBT activists, for liberal LGBT activists, about liberal LGBT activists.
If its goal truly was to go beyond left-wing gay propaganda to affect a more mainstream audience, When We Rise falls woefully short.
Far below the ratings for the Fireplace Aquarium Channel.
These shows are a big end-loser for the networks. They put them up, but when they tank, it's difficult to cancel them without a backlash from the vocal minority.
Gays are all about love though...
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Dude, we’re there already.
Romans 1:18-32 is exactly what kind of weird funky world we’re living in currently.
When God pulls the plug, it’s going to get very ugly.
This week is to make me feel guilty about homophobia. The whole month of Frebruary is designed to enhance my white guilt. October makes me feel guilty because I don’t have mammories.
There are still nine months left to make us old white guys feel guilty. But we are so busy running the world that we don’t always pay attention.
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| 2357 Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered." They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved. |
You’re correct: “Disgusting”. You should see the crap going on in public areas of the cruise ship we just left on Sunday.
Or anything to put in them.
“Prediction: LOW RATINGS”
Boom! Already happened: http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/daily-ratings/tv-ratings-monday-feb-27-2017/
And, if that was the opening night, the rating won’t go up.
Rom 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
Rom 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
Rom 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Rom 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Rom 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Rom 1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Rom 1:31 Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Rom 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Well, aren't they trying to do that right now? Hetero men have been chased out of poor households in exchange for government money - the 'husband' that doesn't talk back. Hetero men are "devils, sexist, dangerous". Take away the hetero men and hetero women can be cowered into submitting to anything.
Watched the first 3 minutes. Propagandist tripe.
That's good news. Maybe they'll cancel it by Wednesday.
Abominable Broadcasting Claptrap
Bkmk
I am so sick of this. If you’re homosexual, keep your mouth shut, go on about your lives and leave me alone! The left has made this a cause, all the while stomping on the rights of those whose religious beliefs don’t agree with this agenda and taking away their livelihoods and destroying their lives. This has got to stop!!
lol
If they actually showed real life homo sex, millions of people who support them now would turn away in disgust.
Wanna see something messed up? Google “Gender Unicorn”.
:)
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