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Jan. 31st, 2005 11:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
changeyourstars8Hold. The. Phone.
Spellings, for those of you who might not know, is the dunderhead who's objecting to that Postcards from Buster episode that showed a lesbian couple on T.V. (The shock! The horror! The... okay, even my sarcasm-meter won't hold up through all that)
Then, of course, James Dobson decides to poke his nose into it. Am I the only one whose "Big Brother" alarm goes off now anytime I see the words 'Family' or 'Moral' in the title of a political group? For all the complaining the Republicans do about Democrats wanting a "nanny state", they sure seem bent on telling us what's suitable for us to see.
Here's a clue, Spellings, since you so clearly need one. There is nothing wrong with showing gay people on T.V. You want to complain that it's a special case because federal tax dollars help fund PBS? Last I knew, gay people paid federal taxes! Either give them all refunds or go away.
She's quoted about the issue with the generic, 'well, some parents won't want their kids exposed to that lifestyle' answer.
How about-- and this is such a revolutionary idea I feel I should patent it-- the parents stay in the room with the kids to see what they're watching? Instead of using the T.V. as a babysitter? Ooooooh!!
Or, if they can't be in the same room all the time, they *talk to their kids* about what they saw and explain why they feel that it's right or wrong?
Rrrrr.
Spellings, for those of you who might not know, is the dunderhead who's objecting to that Postcards from Buster episode that showed a lesbian couple on T.V. (The shock! The horror! The... okay, even my sarcasm-meter won't hold up through all that)
Then, of course, James Dobson decides to poke his nose into it. Am I the only one whose "Big Brother" alarm goes off now anytime I see the words 'Family' or 'Moral' in the title of a political group? For all the complaining the Republicans do about Democrats wanting a "nanny state", they sure seem bent on telling us what's suitable for us to see.
Here's a clue, Spellings, since you so clearly need one. There is nothing wrong with showing gay people on T.V. You want to complain that it's a special case because federal tax dollars help fund PBS? Last I knew, gay people paid federal taxes! Either give them all refunds or go away.
She's quoted about the issue with the generic, 'well, some parents won't want their kids exposed to that lifestyle' answer.
How about-- and this is such a revolutionary idea I feel I should patent it-- the parents stay in the room with the kids to see what they're watching? Instead of using the T.V. as a babysitter? Ooooooh!!
Or, if they can't be in the same room all the time, they *talk to their kids* about what they saw and explain why they feel that it's right or wrong?
Rrrrr.
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