FLORIDA: Anti-Gay Group Launches MTV Boycott Over Transgender Character

[staticman]

The Florida Family Association has launched an [URL="http://florida-family.org/take_action_form.php?message=35"]advertiser boycott[/URL] against MTV because the network's [I]Degrassi[/I] series positively portrays a young transgender man. [I]Degrassi[/I] airs on MTV's Teen Nick channel. FFA chairman David Caton writes in a letter to the show's advertisers:

[quote]It is very concerning that your company would knowingly advertise during a television show that condones and promotes transgender lifestyles to an audience that is almost exclusively watched by young teens and children. You would think by the number of episodes that MTV devotes to including the relationship between a female to male transgender high school student and a bi-sexual lesbian student that such relationships are a common occurrence in America’s high schools. The odds of this bizarre relationship occurring in high schools are extremely rare. Yet, MTV feeds this salacious and irresponsible propaganda to an audience made up of almost exclusively young teens and children as if it were common place. MTV airs a free promo for PFLAG on [I]DeGrassi[/I] which directs kids to an organization that will encourage our youth to embrace a different sexual identity that may stay with them for life. Will your company continue to advertise on this irresponsible show?[/quote][B]RELATED:[/B] [I]World Net Daily[/I] [URL="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=289057"]publicized the boycott[/URL] today in a lengthy article that repeats Peter LaBarbera's unfounded charges about GLSEN's Facebook page.

Sources (I can't believe I'm posting these.): [url]http://florida-family.org/take_action_form.php?message=35[/url]
[url]http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=289057[/url]

[SigmaLambda]

Couldn't quite seem to escape myself
Far enough, far enough, far from Florida

[sir whoopsalot]

[quote] and a bi-sexual lesbian student[/quote]
They were so angry they didn't even proofread it first.

[Archangel125]

Has the anti-intellectual element in the USA always been as powerful as it is in the 21st century?

[{ABK}AbbySciuto]

[QUOTE=archangel125;29345440]Has the anti-intellectual element in the USA always been as powerful as it is in the 21st century?[/QUOTE]

Yes. :specialschool:

[SigmaLambda]

[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;29345435]They were so angry they didn't even proofread it first.[/QUOTE]

apparently gays aren't enough, now the liberal media is pushing trisexuals on our kids

[{ABK}AbbySciuto]

It's just that people were smarter in Ye Olde Days

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[lulzbocksV2]

Again, the anti gay shit happens in the South.

[FoodStuffs]

man if they ever figured out what omnisexual means they'd fucking flip...

[plazzydan]

[QUOTE=FoodStuffs;29345513]man if they ever figured out what omnisexual means they'd fucking flip...[/QUOTE]

I still don't understand what omnisexual means, really. It just seems like a really pretentious form of bisexuality. I'm probably extremely wrong, though. Could anybody explain it to me?

[sir whoopsalot]

[QUOTE=plazzydan;29345575]I still don't understand what omnisexual means, really. It just seems like a really pretentious form of bisexuality. I'm probably extremely wrong, though. Could anybody explain it to me?[/QUOTE]

My first thought is basically 'i'll fuck anything with a pulse'.

[FoodStuffs]

no, you can fill any role every gender or sexual orientation has

instead of just being gay, you could be a gay woman. it's like a tranny bisexual person who wants to be both a man and woman.

that's a really really shitty definition though, like, don't quote me for the life of you. look it up on wiki

"Person attracted to all sexes and to all forms of sexuality"

but it clearly said in the wiki page you can roleplay a different gender too.

pretty sure i'm at least somewhat pansexual

[sir whoopsalot]

[QUOTE=FoodStuffs;29345608]no, you can fill any role every gender or sexual orientation has

instead of just being gay, you could be a gay woman. it's like a tranny bisexual person.

that's a really really shitty definition though[/QUOTE]

Well, that's a bit of a disappointment.

[fox '09]

they want to get in bed with homosexuals to make sure they don't fuck eachother in the ass .

Not really, I'm being unreasonable. They're really right though, tolerance is not a christian and probably not a family value either, right?

[FoodStuffs]

uhhh, tolerance isn't a family value?

if it wasn't all the angry irish people would go extinct cause they'd whip their babies into retardation for crying

[Dr.C]

MTV should be boycotted just because it airs shitty shows

[Dori]

[QUOTE=Dr.C;29345753]MTV should be boycotted just because it airs shitty shows[/QUOTE]

Degrassi is great. Or at least it was the last time I used to watch it around 2004.

[fox '09]

[QUOTE=FoodStuffs;29345665]uhhh, tolerance isn't a family value?

if it wasn't all the angry irish people would go extinct cause they'd whip their babies into retardation for crying[/QUOTE]

whether you interpenetrated it correctly or not , I don't know, but I was poking at how republicans love to use the 'family value' argument against homosexuals and the like.

[Strider*]

[QUOTE=archangel125;29345440]Has the anti-intellectual element in the USA always been as powerful as it is in the 21st century?[/QUOTE]

The United States was and is home to some of if not most of the greatest minds of the past three centuries.

Don't start this.

[shatteredwindow]

So it's ok that kids watch shows with sex and drugs and killing, but god forbid that a girl dresses like a guy.

[Snail562]

[quote]Will your company continue to advertise on this irresponsible show?[/quote]

They should just respond with "Yes."

[Eudoxia]

I still wonder what will happen when conservatives find out about Orion's Arm and its community.

[yawmwen]

[QUOTE=Strider*;29345940]The United States was and is home to some of if not most of the greatest minds of the past three centuries.

Don't start this.[/QUOTE]

we are also really backwards in some ways

like texas, texas does some fucking stupid shit, but it is also home to some of the best scientists and engineers in the world

[Diet Kane]

[QUOTE=SigmaLambda;29345475]apparently gays aren't enough, now the liberal media is pushing trisexuals on our kids[/QUOTE]

and soon......
[b]quadsexuals.[/b]

[Moose]

[QUOTE=lulzbocksV2;29345478]Again, the anti gay shit happens in the South.[/QUOTE]

actually youre wrong

they have bible thumping anti-gays in maine too

[Mingebox]

If their goal is to make sure nobody watches MTV, I'd say their odds of success are pretty good.

[Lizard Of Guilt]

[QUOTE=Strider*;29345940]The United States was and is home to some of if not most of the greatest minds of the past three centuries.

Don't start this.[/QUOTE]

good lord you lack basic reading comprehension.

[Archangel125]

Were I an MTV executive, I'd reply "Yes. Yes, we will continue to promote these shows. Now why don't you pull your head out from between your hairy cunt lips and find someone who CARES?"

[Jimpyy]

The odds of these situations occurring in high schools are low because you get beat up if people find out.

[Chibitty]

If it was aired on MTV then it must be already stupid.

Which is funny, because anti-gay groups are stupid anyways.