Larry Tomczak thinks I Love Lucy might be a safe show for children to watch
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Larry Tomczak is urging American families to raise their children on a television diet of shows that were made before gay people had rights to avoid them seeing anything that might approach a positive depiction of LGBTI people on the TV
January 9, 2015
US Christian author Larry Tomczak is warning American parents to be ‘aware of the avalanche of gay programming that is assaulting your home,’ urging them to retreat into only allowing their children to watch entertainment programming from before the era when gay people were depicted positively on TV.
Tomczak is afraid that the number of LGBTI characters on American television at the moment has a hidden agenda, calling it a gay ‘tsunami’ aimed at ‘promoting’ homosexuality to the American public.
‘What's going on?,’ Tomczak asks in a column published in the Christian Post yesterday, ‘A lifestyle that Romans 1:24-27 labels as "immoral," "indecent," "shameful," "unnatural" and a "perversion" bringing a "due penalty" is conveyed to tens of millions of unsuspecting children, teens and parents as normal, acceptable behavior.’
‘The indoctrination and propaganda coming from those advocating a gay lifestyle in our country, classrooms and culture are increasing. All of us need to take note and take action to guard those we love.’
Tomczak warned that ‘Hollywood’ was promoting homosexuality through shows like Glee and Modern Family and television stars including Ellen DeGeneres and Anderson Cooper and that ‘Human Rights Campaign and a multitude of other LGBTQ advocacy groups have multimillion-dollar budgets and work aggressively to convince Americans that homosexuality is a beautiful way of life – maybe for your child or grandchild?’
‘Passivity is not an option. Check out how aggressive these well-funded and well-organized groups are in targeting innocent and impressionable children. In elementary schools, high schools, colleges and the media.’
Tomczak’s advice on how to respond to this gay onslaught is for Americans to place their heads firmly in the sand, retreating to only watching entertainment programs from a simpler time like the 1950’s and 60’s.
‘Purchasing wholesome DVD series and streaming selected programs are great alternatives,’ Tomczak advises.
‘The Fugitive, Gunsmoke, Little House on the Prairie, I Love Lucy and other award-winning shows are all available and cheap. My son has two adopted young boys who are growing up with Wally, Larry Mondello, Eddie Haskell and the Beaver and can't wait till the next episode!’
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Haters sometimes say the most incredibly hilarious things... I grew up watching 1950s, 60s. and 70s television and I can tell you there was no shortage of gay characters. Although they were not explicitly or openly gay, they were often acknowledged through double entendre and coded speech.
I'm thinking of characters like "Mrs." Trumbull the spenster woman (read: elder lesbian) who Ricky and Lucy turned to for baby sitting. And who could forget the plethora of gay characters on the Andy Griffith Show... From Gomer Pyle, to confirmed batchelor Howard Fine, to the incredible Barney Fife and the never married Aunt Bea, 1950s television was rife with characters that were clearly gay.
Moreover, the actors and actresses that portrayed these "most wholesome" of 1950s characters were often gay themselves (although it would be decades before many would come out in real life).
It's sad that hateful people want to shield their children from the truth of the human heart, some of us are gay and they should just get over it. Seeing gay people portrayed in a television show won't make their children gay, but hiding them from reality will make them ill-adjusted and hate-filled just like their troubled parents.
"Fear Eats the Soul"
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