[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Ironically, when one child on the set expressed his reservations about homosexuality on religious grounds, he was summarily dismissed as closed minded by a girl raised by homosexuals.

Actually, it is the producers of this show that are closed-minded about dissenting views.

[fporretto]

How typical of the Left. Erect a flimsy straw man, claim it represents "the opposition," beat it down and present yourself to the world as a champion.

An awful lot of lives are going to be ruined by that program. I hope the producers can live with that.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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[Freemeorkillme]

Head over to http://www.freerepublic.com/fo cus/news/702490/posts?page=1 to FReep the Nickelodian poll. Hurry. Right now it looks like "Nick-at-Night" constituents are winning.

[tdadams]

the show went to considerable lengths to promote homosexuality and portray even measured, rational disagreement with homosexual behavior as narrow minded and hate-inspired... the program instead staked out a 'take no prisoners' approach to the subject: You either accept and agree with homosexuality or you are guilty of hate.

I don't know which program this author watched but the one I saw was nothing like what he's described here.

They took a very sensitive subject and presented it delicately with decorum, balance, and respect to each opinion. The religious views were not derided as hateful. LaBarbera and Falwell were very well presented in clear-spoken and lengthy taped segments.

The religous children were outspoken and respected. The children of gays expressed disagreement, but in a respectful way. When one child of lesbian parents said issues of gay families should be addressed in school, one of the Christian children spoke up and dissented strongly. He wasn't chastised for his opinion and in general most seemed to agree with him.

Overall, I think it was well-balanced and far, far less inflammatory than many conservatives were expecting.

Conservatives do themselves no favors by misrepresenting the facts on this issue. It only serves to undermine what credibility we hope to have. Once we lose credibility, why should anyone believe us?

[NewHampshireDuo]

What kind of Audience rating did this show draw? Just curious. (I am disgusted with this network)

[Ohioan]

There are laws in many States against the dissemination of materials harmful to children, and this appears to be one case where it would involve no excess whatsoever to enforce them. The issues here is not about toleration for people with a problem. The issue here is about a program that deliberately makes those who do not have a problem, susceptible to being recruited by the sickest minded of those who do.

Why is it that so many teenagers, even from the best of families, get hooked on drugs, despite two generations of warnings? It is because of the natural tendency of kids asserting their sense of a growing adult independence to want to experiment, to try forbidden fruit. If you take the stigma out of homosexuality--the public contempt for the practices--and just leave parental and clergical admonitions that it is a sin--a lot of adolescents are going to try it.

Let us just cut to the chase. There may be a few very mixed up people, who have an inherent bent in that direction. The increase in people practicing such deviant methods of seeking pleasure reflects not nature, but experimentation with perversion. To seed the idea that such experimentation is perfectly wholesome is a deliberate corruption of the normal defense mechanisms, developing within the age group targetted. Someone should be prosecuted for this!

In making this point, I do not mean to disparage in anyway the completely justifiable outrage of religious Americans at this assault on and insult to the bases of Western Theology, which was involved in the program. My point--as to the criminal nature of the program--is in addition to that outrage.

Unless Conservatives want to see America go the way of ancient Sodom, where crowds gather in the streets to demand their deviant pleasures--and with Disney Land and other amusement parks already having days when they mimic Lot's old neighborhood, we do not have that much further to go; they will demand strong counter-measures to this attack upon reason, common sense and common decency.

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site

[Greeklawyer]

Sounds like the GLSN going after children again.
I wonder how much material for this special
came from their teaching tools?

[gear]

Did I see a different show? I don't understand why people are so up in arms about this. I thought it did good job at showing that hate is wrong.

The couple of Christian children did a good job explaining that they did not hate homosexuals but that they were against homosexual acts. That view seemed acceptable, or at least tolerable, to the others.

The point of the show was not to promote the homosexualagenda as much as it wes to reduce the amount of hate in the world. Some think that this is further evidence taht we are moving toward having another Sodom. I think we are from that. After all, even if God could find at least one vituous person, He would not destroy us. (How, if half of us were homosexual and the other half were filled with hatred....). Also, since when do words like "diverse" and "tolerance" have a bad connotation?

As for balance, the inclusion of the Christian children as well as the interview with Rev Falwell went a lot further than what I typically see on the news networks (Fox, CNN, MSNBC, etc).

[BibChr]

SICKELODEON

Dan

[Deb]

"...he was summarily dismissed by a girl raised by homosexuals."

Umm, that was a boy. A sad boy who more than made the point against lesbian parents.

[Doc-Joe]

I heard that Sponge Bob outed Squidward on the show.

[Caipirabob]

Our family celebrated a Nickelodeon Channel-Blocking party last night. I played some of those old "Schoolhouse Rock" videos for my kids instead. My children love the "America" video. They get a kick out of the "No More Kings" and the other Revolution based songs. Great stuff. I learned the Preamble To The Constitution from those things (I still hum the tune mentally whenever I quote it! LOL!)

Errr... we were talking about Nick-who?!?

[GSWarrior]

I seriously doubt that America's youth flocked to the TV set in droves to see Rosie and what's-her-name yammer on about how great is to be homosexual...unless of course it was a homework assignment.
Anybody have numbers? I bet it bombed ratings-wise.