Let BRAVO Know What You THINK About Their Homosexual Agenda!

07/29/03 | Kieri

[Kieri]

This morning I decided to let BRAVO have an earful. Here is my email:

"As a DirecTV subscriber, I am notifying you I am permanently blocking BRAVO from my menu on my DSS receiver.

Your push for homosexual-'friendly' programming demonstrates your pandering to an audience that exhibits behavior that is not only detrimental to their own health, but the health and safety of families everywhere. I refuse to risk allowing my children to see promo material on your channel, so I find it necessary to block BRAVO and will encourage others to do so. Your advertisers will no longer reach me or my family members, and I have let DirecTV know of our all too easy decision to block BRAVO.

You may consider a homosexual audience on worthy of pursuit, but families who treasure their own lifestyles think otherwise."

I encourage others to let both BRAVO and their cable/DSS companies know that you're blocking their agenda-pushing programming!

BRAVO's "Contact Us" page is here:

http://www.bravotv.com/Contact_Us/

OR you can smail mail them here:

Bravo Viewer Relations
c/o NBC Entertainment
3000 W. Alameda Ave.
Burbank, CA 90036

[weegee]

And saying that being gay is a dangerous lifestyle is like saying that being black is dangerous because of increased heart disease.

Wrong analogy. Saying that being gay is a dangerous lifestyle is like saying that being a prostitute is dangerous because of drugs, violence, and depression associated with the lifestyle choice.

[weegee]

I just ignore all the other channels. Can't you do the same?

As a pay tv subscriber, you pay for those channels even if you don't watch them. So this poster should make the choice to "deal with it" or not pay for tv at all?

[finnman69]

Like I said, Queer Eye and Boy Meets Boy are entirely different shows and if each received Movie ratings, Queer eye would get a G or a PG and Boy Meets Boy would get a R.

[OPS4]

Once the program starts, I would suggest we all post the list of advertisers, and boycott them with a huge campaign and carbon copy all retailers who carry the products.

Ops4 God Bless America!

[finnman69]

You guys have my gaydar pinging like mad!

It's not your gaydar that's pinging. It's the hollow cavity in your skull echoing the pea gravel sized brain rattling around in it.

[dogbyte12]

I find televangelists offensive. I still have them on my tv though. I don't even bother blocking them. I just either don't punch in their channel number, or zoom past them with the handy clicker.

People want to be offended. The lefties wanted to ban Dr. Laura, righties want to band a non sex based show about fashion/grooming makeovers because it revolves around gay men doing the makeovers.

Pox on both houses. When are we going to start acting like grown ups here? We have remote controls that can block stations. We have the ability to teach our values to our children.

Nanny state right wing style is not any better than a left wing style nanny state. You still end up with a nanny state.

[MineralMan]

"Are your French?"

Are your French what? Are your French fries cold? Are your French wines bad?

[MineralMan]

"You guys have my gaydar pinging like mad!"

Last I heard, only gay men have working gaydar. As for me, I'm a nice straight white guy whose wife would laugh at your gaydar.

Not everyone who doesn't care if Bravo runs a show with gays in it is gay, my friend.

[sakic]

Bravo for you for taking a stand. Let the people in charge know what you think. It's exactly what the homosexuals did to Dr. Laura Schlesinger.

They were free to exercise their opinions and opponents of portraying homosexuals on television are free to express their opinions. The system works.

Keep in mind, that in the final analysis, whatever makes money will remain on the air. Whatever doesn't won't.

That's also the way it should be.

[finnman69]

Wrong analogy. Saying that being gay is a dangerous lifestyle is like saying that being a prostitute is dangerous because of drugs, violence, and depression associated with the lifestyle choice.

Your analogy assumes that all gays act like prostitutes or engage in dangerous activity.

[MineralMan]

"As a pay tv subscriber, you pay for those channels even if you don't watch them. So this poster should make the choice to "deal with it" or not pay for tv at all?"

Do you watch all the channels on your Basic cable or whatever system you pay for? I sure don't. I have no interest in Oxygen, Lifetime, the Food Network, MTV, EWTN, or many of the other channels available to me on my cable system. I suppose I pay for them, along with the three or four channels I watch regularly, but I don't really care. I also pay to have several HBO channels, some Showtime channels, etc. I watch a movie from time to time on one of those channels, but not that often.

Your argument is specious, unless you actively watch every channel available to you on whatever system you pay for. I don't watch any of these gay-related programs on Bravo, but, they run "Mash" episodes in the afternoon after I get off work. I do watch those.

You see, I choose what I watch on television. I suggest that everyone do the same. It's pretty simple.

[sakic]

Is any else sick of these fags as I am?

Maybe you should cut down on your viewing times of these shows?

[MineralMan]

"Once the program starts, I would suggest we all post the list of advertisers, and boycott them with a huge campaign and carbon copy all retailers who carry the products.
"

You can do that. I suggest, however, that the number of people from FR boycotting such products is unlikely to influence anyone. Same with these letters, etc.

The only thing that will influence whether the programs run or not is if people watch the programs, thereby viewing the ads. Your boycott, like the boycott of Disney, won't make any difference at all.

Why not just avoid the shows?

[MichiganConservative]

As a pay tv subscriber, you pay for those channels even if you don't watch them.

Right. What I'd like to see is a service offer the ability to purchase an arbitrary number of channels for say $0.40 a piece. Then you could actually send a message about the crap on TV even more than not watching.

[sakic]

Too bad DirecTV does not have an a-la-cart option that lets you choose the channels you want and skip those you don't want.

If that service existed and the money wasn't prohibitive, an enormous slice of TV viewing would be spent watching hard core porno. Heartland no different than city folks on that particular issue.

[sakic]

Remember, they can't reproduce, so they recruit!

Who was the original recruiter and who recruited him? Can all homosexuals trace themselves back to this first fellow or woman?

[MineralMan]

"What I'd like to see is a service offer the ability to purchase an arbitrary number of channels for say $0.40 a piece. "

Great idea! Now, since this is a free country, you're free to start a company that does just that. Find investors, get the initial capital and go for it.

You are aware, aren't you, that the existing cable companies and satellite providers did just that? If your idea is a good one, you should have no trouble raising the money and getting subscribers, eh?

Don't complain about things as they are; do something. It's a wonderful country we live in. You could have MichiganConservativeSatellite up and running in just a year or two, offering just the channels you think are appropriate to that consuming public out there. You could become a billionaire.

Not interested? Oh, well.