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Posted on 04/30/2002 7:50:11 AM PDT by Notwithstanding
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MSNBC'S 'ALAN KEYES' MISTREATS GUESTS, DEFAMES GAY CATHOLICS Write to MSNBC and express your displeasure with the unfair behavior and defamatory anti-gay attacks of Alan Keyes.
As the U.S. Cardinals met in Rome this week to devise a solution to the current Catholic Church sex-abuse controversy, comments by Bishop Wilton Gregory of Illinois, Cardinal Adam Maida of Detroit, and Monsignor Eugene Clark (who substituted for Cardinal Edward Egan last Sunday at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York) have again demonstrated some church leaders' desire to scapegoat gay priests and their sexual orientation for the crisis facing the church.
Anti-gay comments by these three church leaders -- which built on earlier, similar statements by Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls -- have prompted a flood of media coverage focusing on the issue of gay men in the priesthood and the presence of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in the laity. As a result, the divide between fair, accurate and inclusive media coverage and defamatory opinion has widened.
Most news coverage of these recent attempts to scapegoat gay priests and homosexuality in general has been fair, accurate and inclusive. "The New York Times," most notably, has done an exceptional job of presenting an informed analysis of and discourse on the full complexity of the controversy. However, among the opinion shows -- many of which have been booking guests who either blame or defend gay priests -- none has so clearly violated the most fundamental expectations of fairness and propriety as the April 23 edition of MSNBC's "Alan Keyes Is Making Sense."
From the start, Keyes -- long known as one of the extreme fringe members of the far right -- and guest William Donohue of the Catholic League not only attacked and gratuitously insulted the other guests on the show (Mary Louise Cervone of Dignity/USA, the nation's largest LGBT Catholic membership organization, and Sister Maureen Fiedler of Catholics Speak Out), but also insulted gay Catholics in general -- with Keyes lecturing the guests who disagreed with him that their opinions on the matter were irrelevant because they did not conform to his religious beliefs. Among the more egregious examples of Keyes and Donohue's attacks and ill-mannered behavior:
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ALAN KEYES (after having interrupted Fiedler): "Maureen, hold on. Maureen, stop there please. Don't, don't talk over me. Don't talk over me! We'll cut your mic off if you don't stop when I start."
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WILLIAM DONOHUE (after Keyes lectures Sister Fiedler then abruptly asks Donahue a question, at which time Fiedler starts to respond to inaccuracies on Keyes' statement): "I got the question! I got the question, lady! Hey, you with the earrings, hold up!" (Donahue subsequently used gestures like twirling his finger around his ear on-camera to mock Fiedler and Cervone when they spoke).
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DONOHUE (shouting at Cervone and referring to a priest accused of child sexual abuse who was a former member of Dignity/USA): "YOU'RE in denial! [Paul] Shanley's your boy! Shanley is your boy; he's not my boy! That's your boy! You're concerned about children but you're in favor of partial-birth abortions! Tell it to somebody who you can sell the Brooklyn Bridge to! Don't tell it to me, lady!"
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KEYES: "The one problem we have here is that you are acting as if what your opinion -- we take a vote on it or something in the church -- that's not what truth is about, especially not according to Christian and Catholic teaching. If there is a God... (Fiedler begins to respond) Let me finish please, let me finish. If there is, as we deeply believe, an absolute supreme being who has by his will determined the difference between right and wrong, then it doesn't matter what your opinion is -- what matters is what his will and law are. And according to Catholic teaching, that will and law exclude sexual activity outside of God's plan of procreation. You want to include it? The Catholic doctrine says God excludes it. We don't take a vote on that! Because you can't vote on God's law. He makes it; we don't."
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KEYES: "And I have to say to you ladies, I deeply believe you illustrate the problem perfectly ... And you are, in my opinion, a great symptom of that crisis. And sad to say, I think the time has come to tell folks with your view you've got to go elsewhere. It's a free country; you don't have to be Catholics. But you can't be allowed to corrupt the doctrine and practice of the Catholic Church."
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As a guest on the program, Donahue's behavior is consistent with his previous media appearances. However, Keyes' unfairness, given his position as host, is inexcusable. Keyes clearly was unable to put aside his own beliefs and biases to allow for a respectful discussion of the issues.
TAKE ACTION NOW!
Write to MSNBC and express your displeasure with the unfair behavior and defamatory anti-gay attacks of Alan Keyes. Let MSNBC know that it has an obligation to provide better platforms for intelligent, respectful discussions of important issues.
Contact: Steve Lewis Executive Producer Alan Keyes Is Making Sense (201) 583-5000 E-mail: steve.lewis@msnbc.com Please copy your e-mail to GLAAD at glaad@glaad.org.
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To: Notwithstanding
Making Sense is fast becoming by favorite show in the talk news format. Keyes is great.
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posted on
04/30/2002 7:53:33 AM PDT
by
skeeter
To: *Catholic_list; frogandtoad; Domestic Church; BlessedBeGod; saradippity; maryz; Jeff Chandler...
Alan Keyes BUMP
To: Notwithstanding
We don't take a vote on that! Because you can't vote on God's law. He makes it; we don't.
Game, set, match.
To: history_matters
Done deal. E-mail sent to MSNBC.
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posted on
04/30/2002 8:01:12 AM PDT
by
TexKat
To: Notwithstanding
KEYES: "The one problem we have here is that you are acting as if what your opinion -- we take a vote on it or something in the church -- that's not what truth is about, especially not according to Christian and Catholic teaching. If there is a God... (Fiedler begins to respond) Let me finish please, let me finish. If there is, as we deeply believe, an absolute supreme being who has by his will determined the difference between right and wrong, then it doesn't matter what your opinion is -- what matters is what his will and law are. And according to Catholic teaching, that will and law exclude sexual activity outside of God's plan of procreation. You want to include it? The Catholic doctrine says God excludes it. We don't take a vote on that! Because you can't vote on God's law. He makes it; we don't."Amazing. Keyes states a point of Catholic doctrine, as usual clearly and concisely, without name-calling or vitriol, and it is characterized as "unfair." Unfairness, to Nambla, gays and their apologists, is what other people call truth.
To: skeeter
Did you happen to catch the show under discussion? I didn't, but then I'm seldom up that late. Maybe I'll have to start taping him.
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posted on
04/30/2002 8:02:45 AM PDT
by
maryz
To: all
I'll remember every one of the anti-Keyes Show naysayers when this show leaves us. We should despise each and every one of them.
To: *SASU; JMJ333; Tourist Guy; EODGUY; abandon; Khepera; Dakmar; RichInOC; RebelDawg; Fiddlstix...
bimp
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posted on
04/30/2002 8:07:22 AM PDT
by
Khepera
To: Notwithstanding
Alan Keyes, the man who should have been president, or should be sitting on the Supreme Court...
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posted on
04/30/2002 8:07:35 AM PDT
by
RLK
To: Registered
I didn't vote for Keyes, and never really appreciated him -- until now. His ability to speak and reason clearly is truly a gift, whether you agree on a particular issue or not.
To: maryz
I saw it. Keyes correctly identified the inconsistency of the 'pro-reform' side's position by immediately pointing out that it was the reformers who caused the current problem by opening up the clergy to 'progressive' influences a few decades ago. From then one they looked totally foolish, which is really why GLAAD is so outraged.
Keyes doesn't care at all about appearing 'tolerant', which is why I love him.
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posted on
04/30/2002 8:11:06 AM PDT
by
skeeter
To: Notwithstanding
Thanks for the heads up. I'm proud of Keyes and the folks at Thomas More. Just the sort of thing for which we were hoping from them and a decided breath of fresh air after 13 years of hearing about and watching the Tulane Legal Aid folks at work.
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posted on
04/30/2002 8:12:42 AM PDT
by
Askel5
To: skeeter
MSNBC'S 'ALAN KEYES' MISTREATS GUESTS, DEFAMES GAY CATHOLICSWhere is the mistreatment? Where is the defamation? 'Mistreatment' must be Keyes getting in a word of truth edgewise to perverted motor-mouths who regard truth as defamation.
Cordially,
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posted on
04/30/2002 8:19:41 AM PDT
by
Diamond
To: RLK
Alan is an extremely intelligent man and one of the most articulate men alive. His preachy style though is a turn off to the majority of voters and his unwillingness to compromise would not last long as President. Bush on the other hand is a bit too willing to compromise. That doesn't make Bush bad, just disappointing at times. Reagan was the best ever articulating ideas, compromising only when neccessary, and appealing to the masses.
To: Notwithstanding; pollwatcher; 3catsanadog; mdittmar; verboten; braD’S GRAMMA; IM2PHAT4U...
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posted on
04/30/2002 8:25:59 AM PDT
by
Diago
To: Registered
I'm sure they'll be a lot happier with the genitalia-free Phil Dona-spew.
To: Notwithstanding
Bump for Keyes!
To: Registered
Well, so far, it is only being moved, right? Anyhow, yeah, I don't understand the people here who regularly attack Alan Keyes, when he stands for everything in the FR charter. I do wish he had more monologue time, though.
I saw that segment, BTW, and it was an absolute classic. I wish I had it on tape. "You with the earrings!" ROFL
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posted on
04/30/2002 8:34:09 AM PDT
by
B Knotts
To: Always Right
I think he's far less "preachy" than O'Reilly. But that's just me, I guess.
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posted on
04/30/2002 8:35:45 AM PDT
by
B Knotts
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