Harvey Firestein
Posted on 07/29/2003 6:25:52 AM PDT by 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
I know that one couldn't pay me to do a man or Roseanne, Sam I am. So, I can't be bothered by it. I don't care if every teacher told me for 10 years straight, that you must lust after Brad Pitt, it wouldn't have worked for me. I am an individual that way I suppose. Pepsi tries to recruit me all the time, and it doesn't work, because I think it tastes like sugar water. They spend millions of dollars in that effort, all for naught. I am just as threatened about them changing my mind, then a guy who color co-ordinates.
No you can do as I am doing and get rid of the whole shebang. TV is a wasteland. I choose to protect my family from all of it. I am not going to make a stink to the DirecTV folks, just turn it off for good.
Please. I know some here refuse to accept it, but being gay has a biological basis. No one chooses to be gay. You are, or you're not. I sure as hell know that even when I was a kid, absolutely nothing (not even the oh-so-terrible Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, obviously the worst thing since Stalin) could have convinced me to find some guy's hairy butt attractive.
You have gay people, and straight people, and gay people being absolutely miserable while pretending to be straight. What you DON'T have is straight people pretending to be gay, at least not in anything remotely resembling a statistically significant number.
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I'm not paraniod. Like the domino theory, incramentalism kills. They're just getting started. Marx (their hero) wanted a nation of boy toys. Those boys would grow up to have boy slaves of their own. They lust for a life like the Romans (watch for this. Gays ADORE the Roman empire) , where boys were used for pleasure. If a young boy said "no", his legs were broken. "How dare he deny me my pleasure."
BTW, how do you know "The straight guys" aren't simply gay actors? What straight guy in his right mind would have gays telling him how to be like them? Only those with limited testosterone, that's for sure!
The Creationists maybe?
You'll never find the perfect straight guy on a gay propaganda show. That's not good for mental programming.
Or those with limited brain power
What has happened to you folks? Pushing, prodding, promotion, and pandering to the pervert audience has been much too overwhelming for my friends and family. Your station, and Disney Corp. in particular became the focal point of the scorn of almost all of the normal family folks I know..
Sorry, we, my friends and anyone else that I can influence are going to take some action. We are turned off and have decided to collectively, contact our cable, and Dish networks to block your smut, and in the interim, to just turn you off as a result. Bye Carlo
You're clearly not JUST paranoid, you are also quite ignorant. Read the studies. Gay folks are actually LESS likely to have pedophilic tendencies than straight folks.
Pedophiles should be castrated (chemically, physically, I don't really care), but raising that "issue" in a debate on homosexuality is an irrelevant red herring.
BTW, how do you know "The straight guys" aren't simply gay actors? What straight guy in his right mind would have gays telling him how to be like them? Only those with limited testosterone, that's for sure!
And you're saying you're NOT paranoid?
Give me a break. Who WOULDN'T want to have five experts (regardless of their sexuality) giving free advice in an area where the advice is obviously needed very badly? Not to mention the thousands of dollars of free clothes, furniture and other merchandise?
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Would a child fall for it? A social loser in school? A man who just can't keep a woman? It's an escape from reality. A need that's never filled. A thirst for something that will never be quenched. A lost soul. A life of empty misery.
Some people turn to drugs. Some to alcohol. Some to homosexuality, some to suicide.
It's not something that should be endorsed, but condemned, or offered professional help.
If TV can endorse a deadly lifestyle such as homosexuality, why do they attack tobacco? Public drunkenness, or open drug sales?
That does it. I know my wife and I have an anniversary coming up in 3 weeks. But I am going to renounce my marriage, my sexuality, and take up with Harvey. He was on tv, and he was... Gay(sob,sob). I couldn't control myself. I am going to move to Vermont and get the civil ceremony done with right away.
I used to think that closet case, was just a pejorative word for people who were religiously opposed to homosexuality. But now, I wonder if there isn't a grain of truth to that.
It is one thing to say that I believe the bible is true, therefore I oppose homosexuality. It is quite another to have all these fearful conversion fantasies, and ludicrous outrage over a make-over show.
I know a very good christian, devout devout christian, who believes homosexuality is wrong. He is nothing but loving and christ like though to a lesbian co-worker. She knows what he believes, he knows what he believes, if she asks him, he will tell her. He does not spin paranoid thoughts about mass conversion movements, and that allowing your wife to watch Ellen will turn her into... one of them.
I suspect some of these people are secretly attracted, in some small part, to people of the same sex, and fighting off those urges, drives them a bit fruity(pardon the pun).
I am not in the least bit suggesting that those who are fundamentalists change their views on homosexuals. I just get tired of the "Reefer Madness" aspect of their diatribes.
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