I think it's a win for the LGBT community. This suspension was HUGE for social conservatives, and it garnered plenty of outraged backlash in conservative media outlets. Every conservative politician and conservative blog was talking about it.
I think it's a win for the LGBT community. This suspension was HUGE for social conservatives, and it garnered plenty of outraged backlash in conservative media outlets. Every conservative politician and conservative blog was talking about it.
This is why I don't think it's a victory for them. A&E stuck to its guns until well after the outraged subsided. This ordeal gave clear indication to the slower adapting half of the country that anti-gay rhetoric is simply no longer appropriate or appreciated. That A&E/Disney and the national media will no longer give you a free-pass to slander other people with your Bible; and if you do, there will be consequences.
Don't know if there's a thread on this or not. But here it is.
A&E has ducked away from a controversy surrounding the stars of its hugely popular reality series Duck Dynasty.
The network issued a statement late Friday backing off from its previously announced suspension of Phil Robertson, the patriarch of the clan behind the successful Louisiana-based Duck Commander duck-calling business. The suspension was triggered by Robertson's interview with GQ, published last week, in which he made anti-gay statements, which he said reflected his religious beliefs.
I think it's a win for the LGBT community. This suspension was HUGE for social conservatives, and it garnered plenty of outraged backlash in conservative media outlets. Every conservative politician and conservative blog was talking about it.
This is why I don't think it's a victory for them. A&E stuck to its guns until well after the outraged subsided. This ordeal gave clear indication to the slower adapting half of the country that anti-gay rhetoric is simply no longer appropriate or appreciated. That A&E/Disney and the national media will no longer give you a free-pass to slander other people with your Bible; and if you do, there will be consequences.
What are you talking about? The outrage was still going on even over christmas. A&E caved into that outrage. the LGBT community lost face in this fight. they showed that unless you agree with them that you should be censored which is well not allowed.
A&E didn't want to give away the number 1 rated reality show.
Them and cracker barrel took a huge financial hit over the whole ordeal.
What good guys? It's "reality TV", there's no winner in that.
I don't know if you really believe this, or if you're just spinning it to make yourself feel better.I think it's a win for the LGBT community. This suspension was HUGE for social conservatives, and it garnered plenty of outraged backlash in conservative media outlets. Every conservative politician and conservative blog was talking about it.
This is why I don't think it's a victory for them. A&E stuck to its guns until well after the outraged subsided. This ordeal gave clear indication to the slower adapting half of the country that anti-gay rhetoric is simply no longer appropriate or appreciated. That A&E/Disney and the national media will no longer give you a free-pass to slander other people with your Bible; and if you do, there will be consequences.
Heres the thing. A large section of Christianity believes that homosexuality is a sin. You may HATE that...it may piss you off. It may cause you to turn red with rage. **** you. Thats your problem. Stating a belief that homosexuality is a sin is NOT an attack on homosexuals. Grow the **** up. Stating theft is a sin is NOT an attack on thieves. Stating murder is a sin is NOT an attack on murderers. It is a stated position on a behavior. A lifestyle. Nothing more...nothing less. If you dont agree with it then it should matter less to you than MY opinion. Because you know what? **** us...how you believe or act isnt OUR business either. If we arent trying to force you to change, then the stated position that homosexuality is a sin is just that...a stated position. Dont like it? YOUR problem.
And heres another thing...if you are the type to get yourself all tied up in knots because someone expresses an opinion that you dont buy into then 1-you probably arent very happy with yourself. 2-If you get yourself worked up into a nice healthy outrage when a white conservative evangelical states that position but keep your mouth shut when the vast majority of black pastors and ministers in this country say the same thing...you have no character, no values, and no cause. If you get all bent out of shape when a white male beats up or kills a homosexual but wrap your face in duct tape when blacks or hispanics beat up or kill a homosexual, you have no character, no values, and no cause. If you eat it and ask for seconds when a democrat says that his opposition to gay marriage is based on immorality, then you have no character, no values and no cause. If you are the type that constantly freaks out when a Christian addresses homosexuality as a sin, and then are the first in line to defend Islam and entire countries and leaders that not only declare homosexuality to be an abomination but also put them to death for their lifestyle, then you have no character, no values, and no cause. If you scream your indignation about 'tolerance' and then lose your mind when someone dares to not agree with you, then you have no character, no values, and certainly...no cause.
if your point is 'sin is sin' I am in full agreement. That's why it is so completely moronic that people will hear a sermon discussing multiple sins, if ore the rest of the sermon, and then lose their mind because I the midst of all the other sins discussed 'oh noes...he said homosexuality is a sin!!!'Neat it is every elses fault a phallocentric misogynist religion is that. Ya should look at your own back yard:
19 When Jesus had finished saying these things, he left Galilee and went into the region of Judea to the other side of the Jordan. 2 Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.
3 Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?”
4 “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’[a] 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
7 “Why then,” they asked, “did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?”
8 Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning. 9 I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.”
10 The disciples said to him, “If this is the situation between a husband and wife, it is better not to marry.”
11 Jesus replied, “Not everyone can accept this word, but only those to whom it has been given. 12 For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others—and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.”
if your point is 'sin is sin' I am in full agreement. That's why it is so completely moronic that people will hear a sermon discussing multiple sins, if ore the rest of the sermon, and then lose their mind because I the midst of all the other sins discussed 'oh noes...he said homosexuality is a sin!!!'
pervert-rights movement ....
immoral freaks ...
pervert lobby ...
What good guys? It's "reality TV", there's no winner in that.
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