Dr. Laura Rallying Pro-Family Advocates to Protest Controversial Film

AgapePress ^ | February 28, 2003 | Jim Brown

[Michael2001]

Hollywood is getting ready to start production of a new film about a controversial sex researcher who was a pedophile.

Actor Liam Neeson is slated to play late Indiana University professor Alfred Kinsey in a new biopic directed by Bill Condon. Many pro-family voices are concerned the movie will glorify a pervert who legitimized child sex abuse and, among other things, claimed 90-95% of the general population is bisexual without realizing it.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger says Hollywood and the mainstream media have given the "father of the sexual revolution" a pass.

"The liberal mentality is to have no limits, no rules on anything," Schlessinger says. "And that goes hand-in-hand with what Kinsey offered us: no rules, no limit, no morality; it's all how you feel and what you do -- and pretty much, the [left-wing] media is ... into that."

Pro-family advocates are asking Hollywood to reconsider production of the film. Schlessinger and others tried to publish the truth about Kinsey to the Hollywood community by way of a paid ad to Variety magazine. But the publisher refused to take the ad, despite the fact that his lawyer said the ad presented no threat of lawsuit to the publication.

Schlessinger says a sexual pervert like Kinsey should not be lionized. She adds that concerned individuals may be able to do something to head off production of the film.

"People ... should go to my website [DrLaura.com] to get the names and addresses of Liam Neeson, American Zoetrope [producers of the film], and Variety magazine," she says. With that information, she encourages people to "beg them, ask them, [or] demand that they tell the truth about Kinsey -- and not fall for the propaganda that is put out by the Kinsey Institute at the University of Indiana."

The movie starring is slated to begin filming in March. Actress Laura Linney is expected to play Mrs. Kinsey in the film, which also stars actor Chris O'Donnell as sex researcher Wardell Pomeroy.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Reisman? ROFLMAO!!!

If you want to talk about the swrong application of academic credentials, there is Exhibit A.

[Lizard_King]

However, to date, there has been only silence from that camp.

Well, from the TV confrontation, which admittedly left something to be desired, it seemed like her claim (and O'Reilly's "IS HOLLYWOOD GLORYFING A PEDOPHILE" headline) was based entirely on the conclusions he drew from interviews with pedophiles, not with children. The "sexologist" from the Kinsey institute looked reputable in comparison, which was some achievement.

I believe the Kinsey institute actually won, in a sense, by having Reisman's defamation suit against them (when they called her a liar) dismissed with prejudice by the judge. What more do they have to do to discredit her "evidence"? Mind you, I do not think highly of Kinsey or of his research, but that is a far cry from slandering him as a pedophile.

[Lizard_King]

Somehow I think the film will leave this part out.

I don't question that the film will glorify him, as Hollywood is so fond of the "sexual revolution". But I think Reisman has some serious credibility issues, and to include her works in a film about him would be tantamount to libel. In any case, I'll wait until the film is actually made to condemn it.