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Saturday, May 16, 2020

Today in Disgusting People

Actually, it's not just a person, it's a whole organization. The "American" "Family" Association is in full pearl-clutching mode over a new PBS series:

PBS is going all out in the month of June to celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride Month by launching a six-episode series of short videos on a dedicated YouTube Channel created by its Digital Studios.

Each Tuesday, beginning May 26, PBS will release a Prideland vignette focusing on an LGBTQ+ person and how that person deals with the ever-changing attitudes of Southern communities toward homosexual lifestyles.

On June 12, PBS will offer its member television stations the opportunity to air a one-hour companion special featuring series host and homosexual activist Dyllón Burnside. PBS’s decision to partner with Burnside to push the homosexual agenda is an unjust attack on Christianity and a mockery of the Bible and God’s design for human sexuality.

Sadly, PBS is proudly promoting a lifestyle that is unhealthy to both the individual who participates in the unnatural sexual behavior and to society as a whole.

In 2020, PBS received $445 million in taxpayer funding. This means you and I are directly paying for PBS to insult our faith and scoff at our God. I hope you will take a moment to let PBS know you oppose its support and promotion of this series.

Once again, we get a full dose of the arrogance and self-importance that seem to be a basic component of certain brands of "Christianity". As an example, here's the key comment:

PBS’s decision to partner with Burnside to push the homosexual agenda is an unjust attack on Christianity and a mockery of the Bible and God’s design for human sexuality.

So, doing a series on a historically persecuted group -- persecuted by the likes of the AFA -- is an "attack on Christianity". In fact, anyone who disagrees with them or dares to express a different viewpoint is attacking their religion. This, of course, is just a repeat of their "poor persecuted Christians" mantra -- from a group that has no claim to be actual followers of Christ and that is part of the evangelical movement that's managing to infiltrate all levels of government.

Oh, that the taxpayers whose dollars are being used to fund this endeavor include LGBT+ individuals and allies. The AFA, by the way, is not one of those taxpayers -- it's incorporated as a 501(c)3 charitable organization, which means it's tax-exempt. And it's a hate group, listed by the SPLC.

In other words, AFA was founded and is run by power-hungry hypocrites who use distortions, misrepresentations and outright lies to push their agenda, which itself is simply to take over control of what you read, watch, and think.

It occurs to me that Hitler had the support of the churches in German, and Mussolini had a treaty with the Vatican. Take that as you will.

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