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[…] last time I had had occasion to write about Rowan County clerk Kim Davis, above, was three years ago…
Whatever is presented on the BBC, and I must admit I do not watch the TV, the fact is that…
“The curriculum had already drawn tensions among the county’s religious parents, with some worrying about appropriateness and arguing the material…
As someone who produced dozens of nativity plays as a teacher and a Sunday School leader, that title ‘A Gay…
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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