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Bleacher Creature Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 06:20 PM
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Family Research Council: Couples who don't look like us are offensive.
Just another day of "good Christian values" from these freaks. I've highlighted the most offensive part (if that's even possible).

http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=WU05G05&f=PG03I03

ABC Cancels Welcome to the Neighborhood

The ABC Network cancelled the "Welcome to the Neighborhood" series, the latest entrant in Reality TV. Good thing. The program should have been titled, "Meet the Caricatures." The media seemed to want to spin the episodes as learning experiences to share with an audience - when it actually sounds like another opportunity for the mainstream media to mock Christians. The viewing public has had enough of faith-based bashing. The show featured seven families competing for a rather nice house in a cul-de-sac of $350K + homes in Austin, TX. The unofficial Texas capital motto is "Keep Austin Weird," but even this city had limits.

To win, the candidate family had to be accepted by the current families living in the neighborhood. Losers would be brutally voted off the premises each week. The show had something to offend everyone... featuring a homosexual couple; a black couple; a Hispanic couple (with lots of kids); an Asian couple (who owned a restaurant); a white couple (country-comes-to-town); a devil-worshiping witch (kid you not); and a Republican couple with tattoos. Conveniently, the "Bible-thumping Jesus freaks" were there to pass judgment on everyone. The hidden agenda of the ABC network was to portray believers in Jesus Christ as moral bigots: preaching and teaching in full red-state, church-attending, God-fearing fashion - a situation clearly "set up for failure" for Christians. The show was a lose-lose-lose for everyone: audience, actors, and America values. It's good to see that ABC has come to its senses and, perhaps, concluded that religious prejudice isn't entertainment.
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BattyDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 06:24 PM
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1. "The hidden agenda of the ABC network was to portray believers ..."
"... in Jesus Christ as moral bigots."

Um ... they weren't being "portrayed" as anything ... the fundies ARE moral bigots! :eyes:

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donco6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 06:25 PM
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3. Ya beat me!
ha.
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donco6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 06:25 PM
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2. And the problem was . . . ?
"The hidden agenda of the ABC network was to portray believers in Jesus Christ as moral bigots: preaching and teaching in full red-state, church-attending, God-fearing fashion"
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Kerrytravelers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 06:29 PM
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4. "Keep Austin Weird," Weird? Oh, anyone that isn't red is WEIRD.
"moral bigots: preaching and teaching in full red-state, church-attending, God-fearing"


Silly me. I thought this was the required beliefs to be a part of their scary, biggoted little world.


Funny. I don't fear God. Just his rabid followers who can't think for themselves.







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