Exodus: Live Out Loud

Pride and Prejudice: Montel Williams Style

By Alan Chambers:

So, Montel Williams has a temper.

While in Savannah to promote a program offering free prescriptions to those with low incomes, the talk-show host blew up at Courtney Scott, a high school intern at the Savannah Morning News, when she asked him, "Do you think pharmaceutical companies would be discouraged from research and development if their profits were restricted?" Williams terminated the interview and later said to Scott, "Do you know who I am? I'm a big star, and I can look you up, find where you live and blow you up." He has since apologized.

Some might be surprised by the Montel's irrational outburst. I'm not. I was a guest on his show this past March and witnessed the same pride as well as an ample display of his prejudice.

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Mandisa Shares Truth with Grace

American Idol contestant Mandisa--who was voted off the show last week--was interviewed by a gay news magazine about allegations that she was 'anti-gay.' The allegations came after, on the American Idol website, Mandisa expressed admiration  for Beth Moore, a Christian writer and lecturer who believes in freedom from homosexuality and has links to Exodus and Exodus Youth on her website. Mandisa also made a comment during one of her performances that God is bigger than "your lifestyle," which some took as a reference to homosexuality.

When asked how she felt about the accusations, Mandisa responded, "I just heard about that a couple of days ago. It broke my heart. I live my life by the value syste that you treat others the way you want to be treated. . . I absolutely hate no one."

When asked if she believed homosexuality was a sin, and whether she would sing at a gay event, Mandisa held her ground with utmost grace: "I know my value system. . . that on the word [of the Bible], that it does speak of that. I do know I have no place to judge anybody. . . Based on what I believe, I'm not an advocate for [being gay], so it's nothing I would take part in."

Mandisa's response is a wonderful example of how we can defend the truth about homosexuality without attacking those who disagree. She didn't let her convictions cave in, and she displayed that she is unmistakably not hateful.

Dr. Phil Promoting Homosexuality and Abortion Groups

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/oct/05101906.html

"Christian groups are calling on the popular television psychologist Phillip C. McGraw, Ph.D, a.k.a. Dr. Phil, to stop promoting Planned Parenthood and the homosexual lifestyle...McGraw touts Planned Parenthood as a trustworthy, independent resource on issues relating to sexuality, as evidenced by a recent broadcast in which he challenges a guest who asserts that abstinence is the true reason for the falling U.S. teenage pregnancy rate...Douglas R. Scott, president of Life Decisions International (LDI), said McGraw's response has three effects: “First, it makes McGraw look like he knows more about the subject than he actually does because he has an emphatic style, which is typical Dr. Phil deception. A doctorate does not make one an authority in every discipline and McGraw should stop masquerading as such. Second, it advertises and legitimizes Planned Parenthood. Third, it peddles the group as an agenda-free, independent research agency. Planned Parenthood ‘studies’ (actually conducted by its Alan Guttmacher Institute [AGI] affiliate) are usually long on opinion and short on ‘study.' "-LifeSiteNews.com, Oct. 19, 2005

GLAAD's cast of characters

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/brentbozell/bb20050902.shtml

"The fall TV season is approaching, and predictably, the powerful lobbyists at the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) are already demanding that Hollywood develop more positive gay characters.

But this year, GLAAD's study of gay TV characters goes beyond numbers to quibbling about percentages. They claim that out of 710 series regulars who will appear this season on the broadcast networks, gay, lesbian and bisexual characters make up less than two percent of the total. They say it's a false depiction of their community. As GLAAD's Damon Romine complained, "This is a shocking misrepresentation of reality and of the audience watching these programs."- Brent Bozell, Townhall.com, Sept. 02, 2005

A New Assault on the Innocence of Children

http://www.earnedmedia.org/cwfa0629.htm

CWA Calls Launch of LOGO Network 'Assault on Children's Innocence' To: National Desk Contact: Rebecca S. Jones of Concerned Women for America, 202-488-7000 ext. 126 WASHINGTON, June 29 /Christian Wire Service/ -- Concerned Women for America (CWA) decried MTV's plan to launch the nation's first "gay" channel, LOGO, designed specifically to appeal to a "gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender audience." LOGO will feature the 16th Annual Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Awards, as well as series like "Queer as Folk" and new feature films like "Happy Endings." The channel will be available in about 10 million American homes. It will benefit from the popularity of MTV which for the past decade has been the #1 rated designation for teens. "This is a sad day for America's children," said Dr. Janice Crouse, senior fellow of the Beverly LaHaye Institute at Concerned Women for America. "LOGO is another assault on our children's innocence. Gay activism, solidly established in our schools, is now spreading right into the nation's living rooms." "MTV has made radical special interest programming a priority," Crouse said. "Their campaigns –– ‘Fight for your Rights,' ‘Protect Yourself' and ‘Choose or Lose' –– have targeted the nation's teens with demagoguery. Now they are taking their activism a step further to indoctrinate our children through a special gay network that will portray homosexuality in a positive, appealing way, legitimizing the homosexual lifestyle for children in millions of American homes." MTV's LOGO will be sponsored by Miller Lite, Motorola, Tylenol PM, Orbitz, Subaru, Lions Gate Films and Showtime Networks, among others. "Once again Corporate America is giving its stamp of approval on a lifestyle that is not only immoral, but devastates lives by the diseases it inflicts, when the message we all need to hear is that there is hope for homosexuals to break free from that destructive way of life," said Crouse. "Last year, Motorola and Tylenol PM donated $50,000 and $25,000 respectively to underwrite an event sponsored by GLAAD. It is an outrage that these marketers consistently recycle their earnings to endorse causes such as LOGO, which will only be detrimental to children and families." Concerned Women for America is the nation's largest public policy women's organization.

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Reality TV Show to Focus on Sex Change Operations

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200505/CUL20050525b.html

May 25, 2005

"TransGenerations" is scheduled to premier Sept. 20 on the Sundance Channel in partnership with Logo, a new Viacom network aimed at homosexuals. The eight-week series will document the sex changes of four college students" -Monisha Bansal, CNSNews.com Correspondent

Hate Crimes Symbol Gets 20/20 Makeover

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/1/192005c.asp

Feature by AFA Journal
January 19, 2005

(AgapePress) - The murder of homosexual college student Matthew Shepard in 1998 became a symbol for those demanding the passage of a federal hate crimes law that includes sexual orientation. But a reexamination of the incident in a recent television news program suggests that a hate crime may not have been committed at all.

Ministry Calls on NBC to Apologize

http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0034812.cfm

December 7, 2004

by Stuart Shepard, correspondent

The death of Matthew Shepard had nothing to do with the Wyoming youth's homosexuality, according to a new report.

Focus on the Family is calling on NBC to publicly apologize for an anchor's insinuation that Christians somehow contributed to the brutal slaying of Matthew Shepard.

The request comes in the wake of a recent special report on ABC's "20/20," which found that gay college student Matthew Shepard was not the victim of a hate crime—as has been widely asserted by homosexual activists and the media since his 1998 murder.

UCC TV ad affirming homosexuality is ‘masterful propaganda,' Mohler says

http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=19648

Dec 2, 2004
By Jeff Robinson

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--A new TV advertisement promoting the United Church of Christ says that God is now affirming homosexuality, but R. Albert Mohler Jr., appearing on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” said the commercial misrepresents biblical Christianity.

“It is a piece of masterful propaganda but it is a diabolical misrepresentation of Christianity,” said Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, on the national telecast Dec. 2.

“... Jesus Christ did indeed come to seek and to save the lost but as He said to the woman caught in adultery, ‘Go and sin no more,’” Mohler said. Jesus “did not invite persons to stay in sinful lifestyles. Rather, He came to save us from our sins and to make us what we otherwise could not be -- and that is victorious over all the sins that entrap us. Homosexuality is one of those.”

CBS, NBC ban church ad inviting gays

http://money.cnn.com/2004/12/01/news/fortune500/jesus_ad_ban/index.htm

Networks wont run church spot featuring gay couple; say ad runs contrary to company policies. December 2, 2004: 9:47 AM EST By Steve Hargreaves, CNN/Money Staff Writer

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The CBS and NBC networks have refused to run an ad by a liberal church promoting the acceptance of people regardless of sexual orientation because the networks believe the ad is advocacy advertising. The 30-second spot, run by the United Church of Christ, features two muscle-bound bouncers standing outside a church, selecting people who could attend service and those who could not. Among those kept out are two males who appear to be a couple. Written text then appears saying, in part, "Jesus didn't turn people away, neither do we." "Because this commercial touches on the exclusion of gay couples...and the fact that the executive branch has recently proposed a Constitutional amendment to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman, this spot is unacceptable for broadcast," the church quoted CBS as saying. Quote from Ad: Ad Campaign Begins ! The UCC's first 30-second television advertisement - part of the denomination's new, broad identity campaign - began airing nationwide on Dec. 1, stating that - like Jesus - the United Church of Christ seeks to welcome all people, regardless of ability, age, race, economic circumstance or sexual orientation. The ad has been accepted and will air on a mix of broadcast and cable networks, including ABC Family, AMC, BET, Discovery, Fox, Hallmark, History, [email protected], TBS, TNT, Travel and TV Land. On the eve before the campaign's launch, negotiations with CBS and NBC broke down, after the networks deemed the UCC's all-inclusive message as "too controversial."