The Sound of the Crowd

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TV Land is airing a special on homosexuality in TV this month, “Tickled Pink.” I haven’t seen it, but it looks like a cross between the book Alternate Channels, VH1’s “I Love The (Decade) series, and the TV Revolution show Bravo ran.

As you might imagine, this has left our friends in the let’s-deny-gays-their-human-and-civil-rights group The American Family Association up in arms.

“I watched the show with a deep sense of sadness,” [Ed] Vitagliano [a media researcher for the AFA] notes. “It made me realize all the more how much Christians need to reach out to gays and lesbians, who are often extremely lonely people.” Not that homosexuals are to be pitied, he adds, “any more than we are all to be pitied by God.” But although many homosexuals may feel they are lacking intimacy and a sense of connection with people of their same sex, the AFA spokesman says, “What they really need is a relationship with Jesus.”

Okay, anybody remember last month, when we heard from Dr. David Hager, the Bush appointee to the Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs in the Food and Drug Administration?

‘Picture Jesus coming into the room. He walks over to you and folds you gently into his arms. He tousles your hair and kisses you gently on the cheek. . . . Let this love begin to heal you from the inside out.”

Hmmmm, things that make you go…


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