Name: American Family Association
Age: 42
Occupation: hate group
Last Seen: Tupelo, MS
Bee-otched For: launching one million lies
-Age: 42
Occupation: hate group
Last Seen: Tupelo, MS
Bee-otched For: launching one million lies
Sadly, some people just can't accept change.
They can't accept that there's more than three channels on our TVs and the programming at 8pm isn't always "family friendly" in their feeble minds. They have a hard time grasping the fact that TV channels like The Family Channel and PAX have all gone by the wayside.
But, hey! There's still The Hallmark Channel!
This time of year, Hallmark shows countless holiday films, and the ratings are pretty good: 50 million viewers, which is pretty good for cable TV. However, some of their more-conservative viewers are pissed over a commercial seen over their network.
The ad is for Zola.com, a wedding planning website. The commercial shows a lesbian couple's wedding and they kiss at the end of the ad. Hallmark is also showing several other ads for Zola showing heterosexual weddings.
Over the weekend, Hallmark pulled the commercials for Zola that showed the lesbian weddings to please the conservative Christian group One Million Moms. However, amid outcry from gay celebrities and LGBTQ+ supporters like Ellen DeGeneres and presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, they reinstated the commercials this morning.
One Million Moms is a branch of the American Family Association, an ultra-right-winged motley crew of bigots that is considered a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. It was founded in 1977 by Methodist preacher Donald Wildmon because he felt that the entertainment industry had become a cesspool for indecency. One of his first targets was the hit ABC sitcom Three's Company because it was about a man who had two female roommates and one of the girls, Suzanne Somers kept jumping up and down, allowing her tits to bounce uncontrollably. Another ABC hit, Soap was attacked by Wildmon for having an openly gay character, Jodie Dallas, played by a young Billy Crystal.
Over the years, the AFA pressured grocery stores to stop selling Playboy and to put blinders over Cosmopolitan. Here in Michigan, Bill Johnson, who ran a branch of the AFA put his focus on getting rid of Howard Stern. Allegedly, he paid elderly folks and others on fixed incomes to write the same letter over and over again to his sponsors. One of those sponsors called Stern and told him over the air that one of the letters looked like it was written with somebody's feet. They also claimed that they got the same letter from the same person. They called him up and he told them that Bill was paying him 10 cents per letter. Johnson - who seceded from the AFA and now runs his own organization, the American Decency Association - claimed a personal victory when his local Stern affiliate, WKLQ in Grand Rapids dropped the show when then-station owners Citadel moved it to WBBL 1340 in 2003. Now that he's on SiriusXM, thankfully, he doesn't talk much about Stern anymore.
Over the years, the AFA also attacked two beloved cartoon characters: Donald Duck and Mighty Mouse. As we all know, Donald Duck has long been hard to understand, even when angry. Years ago, the AFA attacked Walmart for stocking a VHS collection of old Walt Disney cartoon shorts called "Fun On The Job". One of the shorts in the collection was the 1937 cartoon "Clock Cleaners", in which the beloved fowl allegedly used, ahem, *foul* language while arguing with a clock coil. In the original print, Donald says, "says who?" But since his voice is unintelligible, he sounds like he's screaming "fuck you!" In Mighty Mouse's case, the AFA went after the rodent in the 1980s when then-new episodes of his adventures started airing on CBS. In one of the episodes, he sniffs a flower that turns into powder. The AFA pricks felt it was a cocaine reference. To make matters worse, the series was produced by the legendary Ralph Bakshi, who animated Mighty Mouse cartoons for their original studio, Terrytoons in the 1950s. However, what pissed off the AFA was that in the 1970s, Bakshi - tired of traditional children's animation - crossed over to the world of counterculture X-rated movies, namely "Fritz the Cat".
Oddly enough, former longtime Stern show guest and current presidunt Drumpf is now in bed with the AFA and One Million Moms. It might be a huge reason why Stern supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.
It's been a known fact for years that when a religious group that loves to punish people and make them feel guilty tells you to not buy, hear or watch a certain thing, it's instant promotion for them. When Marilyn Manson released "Antichrist Superstar" in 1996, BOTH Repukes and Democrats attacked the album, plus, yes, clergy. It sold seven million albums worldwide. When Guns 'n Roses released "Appetite For Destruction" in 1987, it was originally a bomb because MTV refused to play any of the album's singles. What happened was MTV made a deal with the owner of one of the largest cable companies at the time, TCI and its ultra-conservative billionaire owner, John Malone to not play any videos by acts they believed to be "heroin junkies". Sadly, G'nR fit the bill. Only after the album sat collecting dust on shelves for seven months that the band's label boss, David Geffen called MTV to play the video for "Welcome To The Jungle". They only offered to play it once at 4 a.m. on a Sunday morning. Well, later that day, the video went into full rotation after the MTV switchboard melted from too many calls at once from people BEGGING to get more G'nR on the now-former music video channel. Thirty-two years and over 30 million copies sold later....
Look, when a religious group uses the Bible to attack their own, people will rebel. This is why atheism is on the rise. A lot of the time, when I think of Christianity, I don't think of Jesus. I think of people who have perverted his name over the years with lies. I once went to a left-leaning church and the preacher on that day's sermon was on how the only real version of the Bible one should trust is the New Revised Standard Version. Why? Look at their version of 1 Corinthians 6:9-10:
9 Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, sodomites, 10 thieves, the greedy, drunkards, revilers, robbers—none of these will inherit the kingdom of God.
And the New International Version:
9 Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
You see, the New Testament was translated from Greek texts, and nobody ever knew what word "malakoi" meant. Other Bibles use the word "effeminate", but in reality, "male prostitution" and "men who have sex with men" are two separate terms. Personally, the NIV is a Bible created to tell people that God hates gays, women and people of color.
And just imagine, if that Zola commercial with the black couple was made in 1954, that same AFA - being based in Mississippi and all - would be screaming and yelling with a noose in its hands.
The reality is that the AFA has shown that they're part of America that's dying. It's a past that nobody wants a part of because they love to punish, but we the people fought back with tweets and boycotts. We won this battle, and there's more to come that we'll continue winning.
Oh, and according to Wikipedia, the AFA only has 180,000 members. So much for One Million Moms. Ever hear of "thou shalt not bear false witness?"
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