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Right-Wing Activist Accuses American Idol And The Voice Of Pandering To The "Militant Homosexual Agenda"

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Monday, 8/22/2011 10:48 am

Gary McCullough, director of Christian Newswire, made it his personal mission last year to stop “American Idol” after the show added the openly gay Ellen DeGeneres as a host for one season. After DeGeneres left the show, McCullough declared victory, arguing that families stopped watching the show because DeGeneres is a lesbian and “the promotion of homosexuality and the production of family entertainment do not mix.”

But McCullough is diving back into the mix after Adam Levine, Maroon 5 singer and host of ‘The Voice,’ criticized Idol over claims that the show pressured openly gay singer Adam Lambert to not disclose his sexual orientation. “What’s always pissed me off about 'Idol' is wanting to mask that, for that to go unspoken,” Levine said in an interview, “C’mon. You can’t be publicly gay? At this point? On a singing competition? Give me a break. You can’t hide basic components of these people’s lives.”

In a new statement, McCullough attacks “Hollywood’s Gay-McCarthyites” and mockingly says that Levine might as well demand contestants to wear “pink-triangle armbands to tell viewers who is gay and who is straight.” He even warns that the pink-triangle armband, which was used by the Nazis to identify gay prisoners for extermination, will become so desirable as people are rewarded for their “flamboyant expressiveness” that eventually straight people will fake “being a homosexual to earn the pink armband”:

In January of 2010, I claimed that the FOX TV show, American Idol hired Ellen DeGeneres to fight the rumors within Hollywood that the show was anti-gay; this after the more talented Adam Lambert lost the competition to a "Teen-Beat" hetero-dreamboat.

Idol's producers allowed DeGeneres to drive the show into the ground to appease a flaming Hollywood minority. Eventually profit-minded heads prevailed and the gay-activist was replaced after one horrendous season.

Idol's producers had paid their alms to Hollywood's Gay-McCarthyites and thought they were in the clear. Not so fast claims Idol-rival co-host Adam Levine; this week Levine charged that Idol was not doing enough to promote gay contestants. What does he want, pink-triangle armbands to tell viewers who is gay and who is straight?

Should Levine get his way and Idol steps up its promotion of identifiable homosexual contestants, I guarantee that will not be the final demand. Next season someone else will complain that the contestants were not gay enough. Perhaps we need a sliding scale, with an independent panel awarding levels of homosexuality based on flamboyant expressiveness and on-the-record out-of-the-closet dramatic statements.

But what if someone fakes being a homosexual to earn the pink armband? How do we know what gender each contestant truly desires? We need a certification process lest the talent pool is contaminated with that rarest of all gay performers, the male-lesbian. We will need the casting couch reinstated to insure same-sex sexual preference purity.

I hope I have illustrated the idiocy of attempting to accommodate a militant homosexual agenda, even by a television production. Once we make how one fakes procreation into a class, let alone a "minority," we have shown ourselves to be fools indeed.

Ellen DeGeneres' Gayness Destroyed American Idol!

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Friday, 7/30/2010 4:05 pm

You may recall that earlier this year Gary McCullough, director of Christian Newswire, declared that adding Ellen DeGeneres as a host to "American Idol" would doom the show because Americans reject "perverse behavior" and "young girls and their traditional families are uncomfortable with the topic of homosexuality."

He followed that up May with an "I told you so" statement claming that the show's declining popularity was due to DeGeneres' homosexuality, which was driving away "a significant market share of parents and teens who used to watch the show together, [as] mom and dad decided that the subtle promotion of an 'alternate lifestyle' to their kids was not worth the entertainment trade off."

Well, now that DeGeneres has announced that she will be leaving the show, McCullough is back to take a victory lap:

There is a moral to the story of this DeGeneres-Idol saga. There is a limit to what Christian viewers will tolerate, and I am using "Christian" in the broadest of definitions. The revenue generating ability of television programming that promotes homosexuality has its limits. If primetime network programming becomes indistinguishable from HBO and Showtime someone else will take ownership of the family-friendly entertainment market.

The encouragement I take from the firing of DeGeneres is that someone in Hollywood understands what I have been saying; that the promotion of homosexuality and the production of family entertainment do not mix. There is money to be made and there are cultural battles to be fought; if you try to do both you will lose twice. That has been my business advice.

Cultural battles have two sides, one of which is immoral. Choose to fight on the immoral side of a cultural battle and any victory you experience will only be temporary. That is my spiritual advice.

Public Schools Are Giving Your Kids STDs and Dooming Them To Hell

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Tuesday, 4/20/2010 5:10 pm

I have to admit that if it wasn't for Christian Newswire and the random things that show up there, I'd have a much more diffcult time finding things to blog about.

After all, where else I am going to find press releases like this one from Dr. Gregory Thompson warning that public schools are satanic and that if you allow your children to attend such a school, they will be raped, murdered, and end up in Hell: 

The government schools are anti-Christian, atheistic and pagan, and they are against God, family, and country. Do not call yourself "Christian" saying you love the children, yet have children in a government school, k-12 through college. Christian priests, pastors, and bishops hate their congregations if they do not warn their people to get out of the government schools ... If you do not tell your neighbors to get their children out of the government schools, you hate them instead of love them.

...

Facts:

· Government Education helps promote a culture of immorality and death.

· We could not give your child an aspirin without calling you, yet your grandchildren could be murdered without you knowing it.

· your children will receive a much poorer education than is possible

· your children will be more likely to engage in sex and perversions.

· your children will be more likely to be indoctrinated in Sodomy/homosexuality and encouraged to experience it in Government schools

· your children will be more likely to be raped & molested

· your children will be more likely to be bullied

· your children will be more likely to be taught lies

· your children will be more likely to get an STD

· your daughters will be more likely to become pregnant.

· your children will be more likely to become selfish

· your children will be more likely to become rebellious

· your children will be more likely to kill their pre-born child, your grandchild.

· Because of some of these things your children will be more likely to commit suicide

· Worst of all, your children will be more likely to go to HELL!

Interestingly, Thompson does not appear to be a completely isolated crackpot, as he seems to have actually co-written a book with "Coach" Dave Daubenmire, whom we've written about a few times before.

Right Wing Leftovers

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Friday, 1/8/2010 6:51 pm
  • Alan Keyes goes after Glenn Beck for dismissing the Birthers are loons.

  • Legatus will present President George W. Bush with its Cardinal John J. O’Connor Pro-Life Award next month.

  • Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs says "the kinds of hate mail and the kinds of attacks I am getting from the right wing are way beyond anything I got when I was criticizing the left or even radical Islam" ever since he broke with the Right.

  • According to the Traditional Values Coalition, Interpol is a tool of the Devil.

  • Marvel at how hard it must be to be a Republican candidate for public office.

  • The Family Research Council will be hosting a panel discussion next week explaining how healthcare reform is unconstitutional.

  • Finally, Christian Newswire informs us that the next installment of American Idol will "lose middle America" because its viewers have an "anti0gay bias" and will object to the addition of Ellen DeGeneres

Right Wing Round-Up

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Thursday, 7/9/2009 5:53 pm
  • Jim DeMint continues his crusade to establish himself as the most ridiculous member of the Senate by proclaiming that the coup that removed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya’s from office was no different "than was Gerald Ford’s ascendence to the Oval Office or our newest colleague Al Franken’s election to the Senate" and that the United States is currently "about where Germany was before World War II where they became a social democracy."

  • The details of Sen. John Ensign's affair and attempted cover-up are looking worse by the day.

  • Good As You catches the Family Research Council trying to spin a new poll so that it seemed that same-sex marriage was destroying New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch's approval rating.

  • Kathleen Reeves of RH Reality Check explains that while Jill Stanek wants to end abortion, she's not at all interested in finding ways to reduce unplanned pregnancies so as to eliminate the need for abortion.

  • Crooks and Liars reports that Fox and Friends got itself all worked up over something it read off the Christian Newswire and then predictably set out to turn it into a "controversy" by reporting only the religious right's spin of the event.

  • Finally, a group of 25 leading Latino organizations sent a letter to Sen. Jeff Sessions slamming his questionable attacks on LatinoJustice PRLDEF and Sonia Sotomayor while Ian Millhiser explains how several anti-gay groups are attacking Judge Sotomayor for her decision in a case brought by an anti-gay pastor — even though Sotomayor ruled in the pastor’s favor.

Right Wing Round-Up

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Wednesday, 3/25/2009 6:12 pm
  • Media Matters notes that, in all fairness, Newt Gingrich is entitled to present himself as a guardian of Catholic values because he's "only been divorced twice so far."

  • Speaking of which, Catholics United has responded to the outcry over President Obama's invitation to Notre Dame by calling on "Former Speaker Gingrich and the Cardinal Newman Society to refrain from selectively applying the Catholic faith in service of their partisan agendas."

  • The SPLC reports that Scott Lively will be addressing the Murrieta-Temecula Republican Assembly, a local chapter of the conservative GOP activist group California Republican Assembly.

  • Pam and Good as You note notes that the AFA seemingly has nothing better to do than harass Pepsico.

  • Tips-Q points out that the Christian Coalition is encouraging Senators to sponsor a Resolution sponsored by Senator Jim Inhofe honoring the life of Paul Weyrich.

  • Bill Berkowitz has a good round-up of right-wing news.

  • Sarah Posner says that the new Newt Gingrich effort is not so new after all, because "he's pitching the same-old, same-old as a reinvented phoenix of a flailing conservative movement."

  • Tom Driscoll makes a good point regarding the Right's assertion that David Hamilton was rated "unqualified" by the ABA when he was first nominated to the bench back in 1994: "When someone's level of experience was questioned 15 years ago does it really make sense to cite the same question today? Doesn't the ensuing 15 years actually serving as a justice count for some amount of experience?"

  • Finally, Andrew Sullivan highlights a rather remarkable press release off of Christian Newswire.

Focus Yanks Beck Interview Amid Complaints That “Mormonism is a Cult”

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Monday, 1/5/2009 11:47 am

Back before the holidays, I came across a press release on Christian Newswire from Steve McConkey of Underground Apologetics blasting Focus on the Family for posting a short interview with Glenn Beck about his new book "The Christmas Sweater."  McConkey was outraged that Focus dared to post the interview without mentioning that Beck is Mormon and that “Mormonism is a cult”:   

While Glenn's social views are compatible with many Christian views, his beliefs in Mormonism are not. Clearly, Mormonism is a cult. The CitizenLink story does not mention Beck's Mormon faith, however, the story makes it look as if Beck is a Christian who believes in the essential doctrines of the faith.

Through the years, Focus on the Family has done great things to help the family and has brought attention to the many social ills that are attacking the family.

However, to promote a Mormon as a Christian is not helpful to the cause of Jesus Christ. For Christians to influence society, Christians should be promoting the central issues of the faith properly without opening the door to false religions.

At the time, I ignored the press release because it seemed like just another example of a relatively unknown and unimportant fringe right-wing figure trying to gin up some press for himself … but it turns out that McConkey’s gripes apparently had more influence than I had realized as Focus subsequently pulled the interview from its website:

James Dobson's Focus on the Family ministry has pulled from its CitizenLink Web site an article about talk show host Glenn Beck's book "The Christmas Sweater" after some complained that Beck's LDS faith is a "cult" and "false religion" and shouldn't be promoted by a Christian ministry.

When contacted Friday, a Focus on the Family worker at the ministry in Colorado Springs, Colo. confirmed that the article had been pulled …

For his part Beck is none-too-pleased with Focus’s “censorship” while the organization insists that McConkey’s attack had nothing to do with its decision to yank the article:  

Focus on the Family got to work this week in explaining in detail why it pulled from its website an interview with a Mormon author.

“We intended no insult,” expressed ministry spokesman Gary Schneeberger, in a statement. “[W]e merely miscalculated on how best to feature Glenn [Beck], whom we greatly appreciate.”

…

Beck, however, maintains that the book's message can be and has been embraced by people of different faiths and should not be “censored” because of his own personal religious views. The book tells the narrative of a boy named Eddie who embarks on a dark and painful journey on the road to manhood.

“The Christmas Sweater is a story about the idea of Christmas as a time for redemption and atonement,” Beck expressed in a released statement after the interview was pulled from Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink website.

“Whatever your beliefs about my religion, the concept of religious tolerance is too important to be sacrificed in response to pressure from special interest groups, especially when it means bowing to censorship,” he added.

According to Schneeberger, however, Focus on the Family could not intimate to its evangelical base that the differences in Mormon faith and the historic evangelical faith are inconsequential.

“We can, and do, gladly cooperate with friends outside of the evangelical heritage on common causes; but in no case do we intend to alter our clear distinction as unwaveringly grounded in evangelical theology,” he explained.

But Schneeberger made sure to also distance the ministry from another that had strongly rebuked it for the article’s posting.

“[W]e do not condone the tone of communications put out from UnderGround Apologetics,” he clarified, referring to the controversial apologetics ministry that spoke out against Focus on the Family last week. “And we can without reservation say that the group's news release had nothing to do with our decision to pull the article from publication."

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Right-Wing Activist Accuses American Idol And The Voice Of Pandering To The "Militant Homosexual Agenda"
SUBMITTED BY: Brian Tashman, Monday 08/22/2011, 10:48am
Gary McCullough, director of Christian Newswire, made it his personal mission last year to stop “American Idol” after the show added the openly gay Ellen DeGeneres as a host for one season. After DeGeneres left the show, McCullough declared victory, arguing that families stopped watching the show because DeGeneres is a lesbian and “the promotion of homosexuality and the production of family entertainment do not mix.” But McCullough is diving back into the mix after Adam Levine, Maroon 5 singer and host of ‘The Voice,’ criticized Idol over claims that the... MORE >
Ellen DeGeneres' Gayness Destroyed American Idol!
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Friday 07/30/2010, 4:05pm
You may recall that earlier this year Gary McCullough, director of Christian Newswire, declared that adding Ellen DeGeneres as a host to "American Idol" would doom the show because Americans reject "perverse behavior" and "young girls and their traditional families are uncomfortable with the topic of homosexuality." He followed that up May with an "I told you so" statement claming that the show's declining popularity was due to DeGeneres' homosexuality, which was driving away "a significant market share of parents and teens who used... MORE >
Public Schools Are Giving Your Kids STDs and Dooming Them To Hell
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Tuesday 04/20/2010, 5:10pm
I have to admit that if it wasn't for Christian Newswire and the random things that show up there, I'd have a much more diffcult time finding things to blog about. After all, where else I am going to find press releases like this one from Dr. Gregory Thompson warning that public schools are satanic and that if you allow your children to attend such a school, they will be raped, murdered, and end up in Hell:  The government schools are anti-Christian, atheistic and pagan, and they are against God, family, and country. Do not call yourself "Christian" saying you love... MORE >
Right Wing Leftovers
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Friday 01/08/2010, 6:51pm
Alan Keyes goes after Glenn Beck for dismissing the Birthers are loons. Legatus will present President George W. Bush with its Cardinal John J. O’Connor Pro-Life Award next month. Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs says "the kinds of hate mail and the kinds of attacks I am getting from the right wing are way beyond anything I got when I was criticizing the left or even radical Islam" ever since he broke with the Right. According to the Traditional Values Coalition, Interpol is a tool of the Devil. Marvel at how hard it must be to be a Republican... MORE >
Right Wing Round-Up
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Thursday 07/09/2009, 5:53pm
Jim DeMint continues his crusade to establish himself as the most ridiculous member of the Senate by proclaiming that the coup that removed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya’s from office was no different "than was Gerald Ford’s ascendence to the Oval Office or our newest colleague Al Franken’s election to the Senate" and that the United States is currently "about where Germany was before World War II where they became a social democracy."The details of Sen. John Ensign's affair and attempted cover-up are looking worse by the day.Good As You catches the... MORE >
Right Wing Round-Up
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Wednesday 03/25/2009, 6:12pm
Media Matters notes that, in all fairness, Newt Gingrich is entitled to present himself as a guardian of Catholic values because he's "only been divorced twice so far."Speaking of which, Catholics United has responded to the outcry over President Obama's invitation to Notre Dame by calling on "Former Speaker Gingrich and the Cardinal Newman Society to refrain from selectively applying the Catholic faith in service of their partisan agendas."The SPLC reports that Scott Lively will be addressing the Murrieta-Temecula Republican Assembly, a local chapter of the... MORE >
Focus Yanks Beck Interview Amid Complaints That “Mormonism is a Cult”
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Monday 01/05/2009, 11:47am
Back before the holidays, I came across a press release on Christian Newswire from Steve McConkey of Underground Apologetics blasting Focus on the Family for posting a short interview with Glenn Beck about his new book "The Christmas Sweater."  McConkey was outraged that Focus dared to post the interview without mentioning that Beck is Mormon and that “Mormonism is a cult”:    While Glenn's social views are compatible with many Christian views, his beliefs in Mormonism are not. Clearly, Mormonism is a cult. The CitizenLink story does not mention... MORE >