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IcyPeas

(21,894 posts)
Fri May 6, 2022, 12:56 AM May 2022

GOP senators want new TV rating for shows with LGBTQ characters

A group of Republican senators want a new TV rating created so parents can block their children from watching shows with LGBTQ characters.

The five senators from North Dakota, Kansas, Utah, Indiana and Montana sent a letter Wednesday to the TV Parental Guidelines Monitoring Board asking for the new rating.

“In recent years, concerning topics of a sexual nature have become aggressively politicized and promoted in children’s programming, including irreversible and harmful experimental treatments for mental disorders like gender dysphoria,” the letter reads.

The two-page letter signed by Sens. Roger Marshall, Mike Lee, Mike Braun, Kevin Cramer and Steve Daines “strongly urged” the TV group’s chairman, Charles Rivkin, to update its guidelines to ensure parents are aware of the “disturbing” content.


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GOP senators want new TV rating for shows with LGBTQ characters (Original Post) IcyPeas May 2022 OP
Link Solly Mack May 2022 #1
Oh, FFS! sheshe2 May 2022 #2
Wasn't "Glee" on Fox? nt woodsprite May 2022 #3
No, it wasn't on Fox, it was on Fox obamanut2012 May 2022 #4
Modern Family reruns are on some fox channels too. They must hate that show... IcyPeas May 2022 #5
Gotta keep their voter base angry, how else can they get Emile May 2022 #6
Don't worry GOP vercetti2021 May 2022 #7
get rid of that boob tube and crack open your bible for once eShirl May 2022 #8
But...but...but...I have been assured, had it 'splained to me by "allies" they aren't coming for us. Behind the Aegis May 2022 #9
What we need is a TV rating Mr.Bill May 2022 #10
yes! TV ratings for shows that are all lies IcyPeas May 2022 #11

IcyPeas

(21,894 posts)
5. Modern Family reruns are on some fox channels too. They must hate that show...
Fri May 6, 2022, 05:56 AM
May 2022

Yet it was such a popular show with great ratings.

Emile

(22,851 posts)
6. Gotta keep their voter base angry, how else can they get
Fri May 6, 2022, 06:04 AM
May 2022

voters to vote for tax cuts for tax evading billionaires?

vercetti2021

(10,156 posts)
7. Don't worry GOP
Fri May 6, 2022, 06:20 AM
May 2022

The gene pool still will determine who pops out gay or not. But like y'all give a shit about genetics lol

Behind the Aegis

(53,967 posts)
9. But...but...but...I have been assured, had it 'splained to me by "allies" they aren't coming for us.
Fri May 6, 2022, 02:49 PM
May 2022

This can't be! I have been told, here, in fact, that, "NO! The GOP isn't coming for queer people."

IcyPeas

(21,894 posts)
11. yes! TV ratings for shows that are all lies
Fri May 6, 2022, 06:11 PM
May 2022

why can fox news have the word "news" on their channel when it is not news.

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