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http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/01/07/thousands-petition-against-my-husbands-not-gay-show
The networks upcoming show My Husbands Not Gay will tell the stories of four married Utah men who deny their same-sex attraction.
January 07, 2015 By Liz Dwyer
Staff Writer Liz Dwyer has written about race, parenting, and social justice for several national publications. She was previously education editor at Good.
Cable network TLC is best known for bringing us programming like Hoarding: Buried Alive and The Duggersshows that reveal the extreme sides of Americans private lives. Now the network is upping the controversy ante by airing My Husbands Not Gay, a special that will share the stories of four Mormon guys living in Salt Lake City who are attracted to men but dont identify as gay. As the programs title suggests, theyre married to women.
The shows premise is that the guys are deliberately choosing to ignore their same-sex attraction because it conflicts with their spiritual values. Its set to debut on the network Sunday, Jan. 10, and its drawing the ire of LGBT advocates. A Change.org petition started this week asking TLC not to air the program has garnered more than 92,000 signatures.
As a gay Christian man whos seen firsthand how this message can harm people, I am calling on TLC to cancel My Husbands Not Gay and to stop telling America that LGBT people should lie to themselves and to their faith communities about who they are and who they love, wrote the petitions author, Josh Sanders.
My Husbands Not Gay airs as the nation is grappling with the death of transgender Ohio teenager Leelah Alcorn. According to Alcorn, who committed suicide on Dec. 28, her religious parents belittled her, forced her to attend conversion therapy, and told her that her identification as female was just a phase.
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Thousands Tell TLC to Dump Show That Claims Being Gay Is a Choice (link added) (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Jan 2015
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closeupready
(29,503 posts)1. Yes, because why not take gay men who are struggling and harm them further
by broadcasting a show that implies men who are born gay are inferior so when they watch the show, it affirms their low self-respect and self-loathing.
K&R
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)2. WTF is wrong with TLC????
Why are they spreading this evangelical bullshit? Stop it!!!
tkmorris
(11,138 posts)3. Link seems to be missing
Omaha Steve
(99,573 posts)5. Fixed
Thanks.
sakabatou
(42,146 posts)4. I wish TLC went back to being The Learning Channel