America’s answer to UK ‘snowflake’ Mary Whitehouse dies aged 85.

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LIKE his counterpart in the UK, the Rev. Donald Wildmon, above—founder of designated hate group, the American Family Association (AFA)—gained nationwide notoriety by declaring war on “filth” in the media.

Initially founded in 1977, as the National Federation for Decency, the AFA originally focused on what it considered indecent television programming and pornography. The outfit says it promotes “traditional moral values” in media.

A large part of that work, according to The Southern Poverty Law Center, involves “combating the homosexual agenda” through various means, including publicising companies that have pro-gay policies and organizing boycotts against them.

It was no doubt inspired by the formation in Britiain a decade or so earlier of Mary Whitehouse’s National Viewers and Listeners Association, which staggers on as Mediawatch-UK. It promises a new website “soon.”

One can hardly contain one’s excitement.

The ghastly Whitehouse, dubbed the ‘Queen of the Snowflakes’, snuffed it in 2001, aged 91. Image via YouTube

An unintended consequence of Whitehouse’s efforts to remove “filth” from television, theatre and the big screen was the formation of the Gay Humanist Group in 1979.

I was a proud co-founder of the organisation, and at one point commissioned a card that was widely distributed at LGBT+ gatherings.

Religion News Service reported that Wildmon died in Tupelo, Mississippi, the city where the AFA is based. An obituary referred to Wildmon as:

One of the legendary leaders of American conservatism.

“His impressive legacy of Christian ministry will live on for many years to come,” Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves, a Republican, said on X, formerly known as Twitter.

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3 responses to “America’s answer to UK ‘snowflake’ Mary Whitehouse dies aged 85.”

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