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William769

(55,145 posts)
Wed Apr 22, 2015, 11:39 AM Apr 2015

Gay 'Focus' of Clinton Campaign Ad Enrages Christian Critics

The first commercial for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign has religious conservatives up in arms over its inclusion of same-sex couples.



A self-described Christian news service has taken great pains to analyze Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign launch commercial and determined its focus is to push “the homosexual agenda.”

OneNewsNow, a website of the American Family News Network, claims Clinton’s first campaign ad makes her “promotion of the H-agenda very clear for all Americans” by featuring “two homosexual men walking down the street holding hands, with a homosexaul [sic] man’s voice narrating the segment.”

The typo-heavy article by reporter Michael F. Haverluck goes on to describe another segment of the video, which “highlights a lesbian couple kissing on a couch while caressing each other.”

These kinds of scenes — depicting what he called “lopsided and Left-leaning treatment of the LGBT community over the traditional family” — reportedly evoked outrage from the “leaders of pro-family organizations,” as collated by OneNewsNow.

According to American Family Association governmental affairs director Sandy Rios, the ad’s omissions were worse than its inclusions. Haverluck described the spot’s “seemingly intentional omission of nuclear family imagery and values,” and Rios explained on American Family Radio, “the Anglo-American husband and wife with family in church … we don’t see that.” Haverluck noted the video did include “several racially diverse single adults, two evidently single moms and a pregnant African-American mom with the father — with no wedding rings visible.”

http://www.advocate.com/politics/election/2015/04/22/gay-focus-clinton-campaign-ad-enrages-christian-critics
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Gay 'Focus' of Clinton Campaign Ad Enrages Christian Critics (Original Post) William769 Apr 2015 OP
Well that is just too damn bad for them. hrmjustin Apr 2015 #1
Enraging such people is a very positive thing. MineralMan Apr 2015 #2
Anger isn't good for the heart... awoke_in_2003 Apr 2015 #28
by golly gee think they're on to something gwheezie Apr 2015 #3
Child Poverty in the USA is also ENRAGING Cosmic Kitten Apr 2015 #4
Same-sex couples??? The horror! greatauntoftriplets Apr 2015 #5
And on television! William769 Apr 2015 #13
In prime time yet! greatauntoftriplets Apr 2015 #14
Yes. William769 Apr 2015 #19
Good. PeaceNikki Apr 2015 #6
Good. Another feather in her cap. leftofcool Apr 2015 #7
The outraged "Christians" weren't going to vote for Hillary The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2015 #8
+1. These prudes are Cruz/Huckabee/Santorum voters. blkmusclmachine Apr 2015 #41
phuckem nt geek tragedy Apr 2015 #9
Right on. One DU thread was about an article that these, um, gay opposition folk were worried about libdem4life Apr 2015 #10
heehee...darn you, Bill, how can I not feel the love after reading that? Zorra Apr 2015 #11
I just never give up. William769 Apr 2015 #12
Ah yes, OneNewsNow, home of "Tyson Homosexual". KamaAina Apr 2015 #15
So, if they list the lyrics of a popular christmas song... awoke_in_2003 Apr 2015 #29
Uh oh... awoke_in_2003 Apr 2015 #30
There's always okasha Apr 2015 #32
OMG awoke_in_2003 Apr 2015 #35
I'd just like to point out a thing or two about the salacious lesbians justiceischeap Apr 2015 #16
If the Supremes, as expected, legalize gay marriage... DonViejo Apr 2015 #17
Agreed. William769 Apr 2015 #18
Some of their more criminally insane pundits are calling for a civil war. Initech Apr 2015 #23
I've read the same articles here on DU... DonViejo Apr 2015 #24
Diana Ross is about to legalize gay marriage? KamaAina Apr 2015 #31
Seems their addition to the video is pissing off ALL kinds of people. Behind the Aegis Apr 2015 #20
...Engages Homophobes. Orsino Apr 2015 #21
These people need a more constructive hobby. Initech Apr 2015 #22
That crowd has been enraged at Hillary regarding teh gay since before Bill got elected. This is part Bluenorthwest Apr 2015 #25
+ 10000 This ^ misterhighwasted Apr 2015 #27
Yes, this ^^^^^ 1,000,000 ismnotwasm Apr 2015 #34
Thank you for pointing that out. okasha Apr 2015 #38
Excellent historical analysis of Warren's 'leftward' pull. Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 #44
I play a concert on the world's smallest violin for them... stevenleser Apr 2015 #26
Gee, that's just too bad ismnotwasm Apr 2015 #33
Kick! Agschmid Apr 2015 #36
"and a pregnant African-American mom with the father — with no wedding rings visible." beam me up scottie Apr 2015 #37
Good, Get mad assholes! IronLionZion Apr 2015 #39
Anything that enrages the fundy nuts is a good thing. hobbit709 Apr 2015 #40
good. spanone Apr 2015 #42
WHAT NEXT? cynzke Apr 2015 #43
They can tell that someone is homosexual just by listening to his voice? Fortinbras Armstrong Apr 2015 #45

gwheezie

(3,580 posts)
3. by golly gee think they're on to something
Wed Apr 22, 2015, 11:44 AM
Apr 2015

I think the rightwing should continue warning us that Hillary values the gay community and black folks. Why she may even value women and children.

Cosmic Kitten

(3,498 posts)
4. Child Poverty in the USA is also ENRAGING
Wed Apr 22, 2015, 11:44 AM
Apr 2015
America’s wealth grew by 60 percent in the past six years, by over $30 trillion. In approximately the same time, the number of homeless children has also grown by 60 percent.

Financier and CEO Peter Schiff said, “People don’t go hungry in a capitalist economy.” The 16 million kids on food stamps know what it’s like to go hungry. Perhaps, some in Congress would say, those children should be working. “There is no such thing as a free lunch,” insisted Georgia Representative Jack Kingston, even for schoolkids, who should be required to “sweep the floor of the cafeteria” (as they actually do at a charter school in Texas).

The callousness of U.S. political and business leaders is disturbing, shocking. Hunger is just one of the problems of our children. Teacher Sonya Romero-Smith told about the two little homeless girls she adopted: “Getting rid of bedbugs, that took us a while. Night terrors, that took a little while. Hoarding food..”
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/the-numbers-are-staggering-us-is-world-leader-in-child-poverty/


Social issues ALWAYS enrage partisans
 

libdem4life

(13,877 posts)
10. Right on. One DU thread was about an article that these, um, gay opposition folk were worried about
Wed Apr 22, 2015, 12:02 PM
Apr 2015

being labelled. Can you believe it. Whodathunk. Their population is shrinking, young people are deserting in droves, and it's going to likely be the law of the land soon.

Deal with it and get over your righteous selves. Because you're not.

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
15. Ah yes, OneNewsNow, home of "Tyson Homosexual".
Wed Apr 22, 2015, 12:26 PM
Apr 2015
http://revealingerrors.com/tyson_homosexual

The error occurred on One News Now, a news website run by the conservative Christian American Family Association. The site provides Christian conservative news and commentary. One of the things they do, apparently, is offer a version of the standard Associated Press news feed. Rather than just republishing it, they run software to clean up the language so it more accurately reflects their values and choice of terminology. They do so with a computer program.

The error is a pretty straightforward variant of the clbuttic effect — a run-away filter trying to clean up text by replacing offensive terms with theoretically more appropriate ones. Among other substitutions, AFA/ONN replaced the term “gay” with “homosexual.” In this case, they changed the name of champion sprinter and U.S. Olympic hopeful Tyson Gay to “Tyson Homosexual.” In fact, they did it quite a few times as you can see in the screenshot below.




 

awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts)
29. So, if they list the lyrics of a popular christmas song...
Wed Apr 22, 2015, 06:56 PM
Apr 2015

will it read "don we now our homosexual apparel"? Or how about that song from West Side Story? "I feel pretty, and witty, and homosexual"

okasha

(11,573 posts)
32. There's always
Thu Apr 23, 2015, 01:35 AM
Apr 2015

"Homosexual Paree"

"Our hearts were young and homosexual"

The Homosexual (18)90s"

"Enola Homosexual"

"Homosexual Talese"

 

awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts)
35. OMG
Thu Apr 23, 2015, 01:42 AM
Apr 2015

The Enola Homosexual ended the war with Japan. What would Marvin Homosexual have to say about that?

justiceischeap

(14,040 posts)
16. I'd just like to point out a thing or two about the salacious lesbians
Wed Apr 22, 2015, 12:32 PM
Apr 2015

They touched foreheads, did not kiss nor were there any caresses. Wishful thinking from the author or maybe he confused it with recently watched girl-in-girl porn?

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
17. If the Supremes, as expected, legalize gay marriage...
Wed Apr 22, 2015, 01:03 PM
Apr 2015

the heads of fundie xtians, their gangs of thugs and haters are going to explode. Gotta wonder if they will organize something similar to the KKK, launching a terror campaign across the U.S.

Initech

(100,065 posts)
23. Some of their more criminally insane pundits are calling for a civil war.
Wed Apr 22, 2015, 03:00 PM
Apr 2015

Yes, I shit you not. I say good luck with that.

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
24. I've read the same articles here on DU...
Wed Apr 22, 2015, 03:04 PM
Apr 2015

Huckabee has encouraged Governors to ignore the decision if it's pro-SSM. The agitation will, I think, begin to heighten next week, when the Court hears the case.

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
25. That crowd has been enraged at Hillary regarding teh gay since before Bill got elected. This is part
Wed Apr 22, 2015, 04:35 PM
Apr 2015

of why I don't much cotton to the general attacking of Hillary seen around here. It is far too early in a primary for me to be picking a candidate but of the announced, Webb, Caffee and O'Malley, Clinton and O'Malley are the only two who would have any chance of a vote from me. So she's a contender.

As for Warren, I was wanting to hear the story of how she left the GOP and her high earning consultancy lifestyle and moved not just into the Democratic Party but into a position many read as being highly progressive in all areas. What I got was a repetition of the idea that she is 'pulling everybody else to the left'. It skips the part about how SHE got to the left entirely. In 1992, Bernie Sanders co-founded the Progressive Caucus, Hilary became First Lady, and Liz Warren was a Bush Republican. From that, I can not surmise that Liz pulled Hillary to the left...
Let me quote from the 1992 GOP Convention Keynote Speech, delivered by Reagan Administration official and Republican Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan. This is the Party that Warren supporters say was 'super moderate compared to today'.
" Mr. Clinton however, has a different agenda. At its top is unrestricted -- unrestricted abortion on demand. When the Irish-Catholic Governor of Pennsylvania, Robert Casey, asked to say a few words on behalf of the 25 million unborn children destroyed since Roe v Wade, Bob Casey was told there was no room for him at the podium at Bill Clinton's convention, and no room at the inn. Yet -- Yet a militant leader of the homosexual rights movement could rise at that same convention and say: "Bill Clinton and Al Gore represent the most pro-lesbian and pro-gay ticket in history." And so they do.
Elect me, and you get "two for the price of one," Mr. Clinton says of his lawyer-spouse. And what -- And what does Hillary believe? Well, Hillary believes that 12-year-olds should have the right to sue their parents. And Hillary has compared marriage and the family, as institutions, to slavery and life on an Indian reservation. Well, speak for yourself, Hillary.
Friends -- Friends, this -- This, my friends -- This is radical feminism. The agenda that Clinton & Clinton would impose on America: abortion on demand, a litmus test for the Supreme Court, homosexual rights, discrimination against religious schools, women in combat units. That's change, all right. But that's not the kind of change America needs. It's not the kind of change America wants. And it's not the kind of change we can abide in a nation we still call "God's country."

So that's the Party of Warren, 1992. Pulling Hillary to the left. Yeah. But how did Warren finally reject the GOP if crap like Buchanan's keynote was not enough to drive her away? I remember that speech. It was savage.

okasha

(11,573 posts)
38. Thank you for pointing that out.
Thu Apr 23, 2015, 01:27 PM
Apr 2015

Warren is doing a good job as Senator, and I like her. Maybe her switch was a Road to Damascus experience. But it's good to have her history known.

beam me up scottie

(57,349 posts)
37. "and a pregnant African-American mom with the father — with no wedding rings visible."
Thu Apr 23, 2015, 01:51 AM
Apr 2015

"the Anglo-American husband and wife with family in church … we don’t see that."

Well that's because Hillary loves teh gays, single moms and unmarried black women but hates white married families who go to church.

Obviously.


"The typo-heavy article" lol!

Must be all that drool making the keyboard slippery...


hobbit709

(41,694 posts)
40. Anything that enrages the fundy nuts is a good thing.
Thu Apr 23, 2015, 10:11 PM
Apr 2015

The more of them that have exploding heads the better for the rest of society.

cynzke

(1,254 posts)
43. WHAT NEXT?
Fri Apr 24, 2015, 05:04 AM
Apr 2015

SHOW ME YOUR DRIVERS LICENSE, CAR REGISTRATION AND YOUR MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE PLEASE?

Not that it matters, the black male in the scenes depicting the black couple, IS WEARING A WEDDING RING. You first see it as he is reaching for a toy. Then in two scenes where he pats his wife's pregnant tummy, you can see a wedding ring although it is not very easy to see. Why lie about this?

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