Sophie338
06-08-04, 06:19 AM
Hi All
The Traditional Values Coalition are making themselves look even more stupid. And as we have had problems with them perhaps this is worth reading, I just came across this Article about the TVC. They are barking mad. Aparrentley they are all saddled up to confront the "transgender agenda" and the most evil maifestation of the opression of family values is a cartoon called "Shrek" aparrentley this is a cartoon set to contaminate the minds of children with the perversions of the Devil. From reading the following I get the impression that the Journalist thinks they are bonkers.
Coalition: 'Shrek' wrecks family values
MIKE ARGENTO
Monday, June 7, 2004
Some people see "Shrek 2" as harmless family entertainment, a film that
kids from 8 to 80 can enjoy.
Others, though, see it as part of an effort that, one day, will lead not
only to gay marriage, but marriage between people of the same sex who
were once the opposite sex, or something like that.
And, if that's not bad enough, Larry King is involved, sort of.
Something called the Traditional Values Coalition has issued a parental
advisory about "Shrek 2," claiming the movie furthers what it calls "the
transgender agenda," an "effort to deconstruct the biological reality of
male and female."
And here you thought it was just a nice, little cartoon.
The coalition's advisory says, "Parents who are thinking about taking
their children to see 'Shrek 2,' may wish to consider the following: The
movie features a male-to-female transgender (in transition) as an evil
bartender. The character has five o'clock shadow, wears a dress and has
female breasts. It is clear that he is a she-male. His voice is that of
talk show host Larry King."
Larry King?
Is the Traditional Values Coalition suggesting that Larry King has
something to do with "the transgender agenda," whatever that is? Does
Larry King promote sex change surgery? Was Larry King once a woman? (If
he had been, you can't blame him for having a sex-change operation. He'd
have been one nasty looking woman.)
The bartender is only the beginning. The warning continues: "During a
dance scene at the end of the movie, this transgendered man expresses
sexual desire for Prince Charming, jumps on him, and both tumble to the
floor."
Prince Charming in the clutches of Larry King?
And then, the warning says, "In another scene in the movie, Shrek and
Donkey need to be rescued from a dungeon where they are chained against
the wall."
An ogre and a donkey chained to a wall? Doesn't U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum,
R-Man-on-Dog, have dreams like that?
The warning continues: "The rescue is conducted by Pinocchio who is
asked to lie so his nose will grow long enough for one of the smaller
cartoon characters to use it as a bridge to reach Shrek and Donkey.
Donkey encourages him to lie about something and suggests he lie about
wearing women's underwear. When he denies wearing women's underwear, his
nose begins to grow."
The conclusion: Pinocchio is a transvestite.
There's even more cross-dressing. The warning says, "An earlier scene in
the movie features a wolf dressed in grandma's clothing and reading a
book when Prince Charming encounters him. Later, one of the characters
refers to the wolf's gender confusion."
A transvestite wolf?
This has to be some kind of joke. I mean, Larry King?
So I called Frank York, the editorial director for the Traditional
Values Coalition, and asked him: "Are you serious?"
"Yes," he said. "Yes, I am."
He said, "What they showed in the film was supposed to be humorous, but
if you look at the transgender agenda ... there are more serious things
going on here."
Like men dressed as women using women's bathrooms, he said.
And other stuff like that.
York discussed the "transgender agenda" at length and I'm still not sure
what he meant. He did say something about two male-to-female transgender
people who tried to get married in Kansas. I must have been out getting
popcorn during that scene.
He also suggested that I do a Web search for "she males." He said,
"You'll see things that'll make your hair curl."
I told him I didn't think my bosses would appreciate me checking out
she-male sites here in the office.
He's deadly serious. He doesn't think there's anything humorous at all
about a bartender with a five o'clock shadow, wearing a dress, with
breasts and the voice of Larry King.
By the way, what's Larry King have to do with it?
"That's just a detail I put in there," he said.
So Larry King doesn't have anything to do with this?
"No, not at all," he said.
I wanted to ask him about the whole interspecies marriage thing, you
know, Shrek being an ogre and the princess being, well, a princess who
became an ogre. (Or maybe she was an ogre and became a princess. I don't
know.)
Anyway, he talked about the whole transsexual agenda and how it wants to
take over the world and stuff like that. He clearly spends a lot of time
thinking about transsexuals, not that there's anything wrong with that.
Meanwhile, I was praying to the telephone gods to strike the phone line
dead.
Finally, he said, "I know you probably think I'm insane."
No, no, no, no.
Probably? Mike Argento, whose column appears Mondays and Thursdays in
Living and Sundays in Viewpoints, can be reached at 771-2046 or at
mike@<hidden>.
The Traditional Values Coalition are making themselves look even more stupid. And as we have had problems with them perhaps this is worth reading, I just came across this Article about the TVC. They are barking mad. Aparrentley they are all saddled up to confront the "transgender agenda" and the most evil maifestation of the opression of family values is a cartoon called "Shrek" aparrentley this is a cartoon set to contaminate the minds of children with the perversions of the Devil. From reading the following I get the impression that the Journalist thinks they are bonkers.
Coalition: 'Shrek' wrecks family values
MIKE ARGENTO
Monday, June 7, 2004
Some people see "Shrek 2" as harmless family entertainment, a film that
kids from 8 to 80 can enjoy.
Others, though, see it as part of an effort that, one day, will lead not
only to gay marriage, but marriage between people of the same sex who
were once the opposite sex, or something like that.
And, if that's not bad enough, Larry King is involved, sort of.
Something called the Traditional Values Coalition has issued a parental
advisory about "Shrek 2," claiming the movie furthers what it calls "the
transgender agenda," an "effort to deconstruct the biological reality of
male and female."
And here you thought it was just a nice, little cartoon.
The coalition's advisory says, "Parents who are thinking about taking
their children to see 'Shrek 2,' may wish to consider the following: The
movie features a male-to-female transgender (in transition) as an evil
bartender. The character has five o'clock shadow, wears a dress and has
female breasts. It is clear that he is a she-male. His voice is that of
talk show host Larry King."
Larry King?
Is the Traditional Values Coalition suggesting that Larry King has
something to do with "the transgender agenda," whatever that is? Does
Larry King promote sex change surgery? Was Larry King once a woman? (If
he had been, you can't blame him for having a sex-change operation. He'd
have been one nasty looking woman.)
The bartender is only the beginning. The warning continues: "During a
dance scene at the end of the movie, this transgendered man expresses
sexual desire for Prince Charming, jumps on him, and both tumble to the
floor."
Prince Charming in the clutches of Larry King?
And then, the warning says, "In another scene in the movie, Shrek and
Donkey need to be rescued from a dungeon where they are chained against
the wall."
An ogre and a donkey chained to a wall? Doesn't U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum,
R-Man-on-Dog, have dreams like that?
The warning continues: "The rescue is conducted by Pinocchio who is
asked to lie so his nose will grow long enough for one of the smaller
cartoon characters to use it as a bridge to reach Shrek and Donkey.
Donkey encourages him to lie about something and suggests he lie about
wearing women's underwear. When he denies wearing women's underwear, his
nose begins to grow."
The conclusion: Pinocchio is a transvestite.
There's even more cross-dressing. The warning says, "An earlier scene in
the movie features a wolf dressed in grandma's clothing and reading a
book when Prince Charming encounters him. Later, one of the characters
refers to the wolf's gender confusion."
A transvestite wolf?
This has to be some kind of joke. I mean, Larry King?
So I called Frank York, the editorial director for the Traditional
Values Coalition, and asked him: "Are you serious?"
"Yes," he said. "Yes, I am."
He said, "What they showed in the film was supposed to be humorous, but
if you look at the transgender agenda ... there are more serious things
going on here."
Like men dressed as women using women's bathrooms, he said.
And other stuff like that.
York discussed the "transgender agenda" at length and I'm still not sure
what he meant. He did say something about two male-to-female transgender
people who tried to get married in Kansas. I must have been out getting
popcorn during that scene.
He also suggested that I do a Web search for "she males." He said,
"You'll see things that'll make your hair curl."
I told him I didn't think my bosses would appreciate me checking out
she-male sites here in the office.
He's deadly serious. He doesn't think there's anything humorous at all
about a bartender with a five o'clock shadow, wearing a dress, with
breasts and the voice of Larry King.
By the way, what's Larry King have to do with it?
"That's just a detail I put in there," he said.
So Larry King doesn't have anything to do with this?
"No, not at all," he said.
I wanted to ask him about the whole interspecies marriage thing, you
know, Shrek being an ogre and the princess being, well, a princess who
became an ogre. (Or maybe she was an ogre and became a princess. I don't
know.)
Anyway, he talked about the whole transsexual agenda and how it wants to
take over the world and stuff like that. He clearly spends a lot of time
thinking about transsexuals, not that there's anything wrong with that.
Meanwhile, I was praying to the telephone gods to strike the phone line
dead.
Finally, he said, "I know you probably think I'm insane."
No, no, no, no.
Probably? Mike Argento, whose column appears Mondays and Thursdays in
Living and Sundays in Viewpoints, can be reached at 771-2046 or at
mike@<hidden>.