LOL!! Christian group says media is biased....because of gay pride float!

[Bluebear]

GLEN ELLYN, Il., June 23 /Christian Wire Service/ -- Illinois Family Institute Executive Director Peter LaBarbera said today that the expected participation of Chicago media organizations in the city's "gay pride" parade Sunday "mocks the ideal of media objectivity and fairness."

LaBarbera urged the media not to repeat last year's spectacle in which several major Chicago media corporations, including CBS 2, ABC 7, NBC, WGN, and Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ), fielded floats in the city's annual "pride" parade.

"By siding so openly with one side of a very controversial issue, the media risk further alienating that silent majority of Illinois citizens who are tired of press bias and who do not believe that aberrant sexual and gender lifestyles are something to be proud of," he said.

"Are the Chicago media so jaded that they cannot even see the pitfalls of participating in a parade that mocks traditional religion and celebrates behaviors regarded as wrong or sinful by millions of city inhabitants?" he asked.

http://www.earnedmedia.org/ifi0623.htm

[Cha]

1. If those faux

xtians worried 1/2 as much about our Soldiers in Iraq as they do about Gays then maybe the Soldiers would all have the armour and gear that they need to protect themselves!

[politicaholic]

2. I suppose an entry in the Easter Parade is not showing Christian bias.

:eyes:

[meegbear]

3. Are the Chicago media so jaded ...

that they cannot even see the pitfalls of capitulating to a group that mocks traditional religion and celebrates behaviors regarded as wrong or sinful by millions of city inhabitants?

Let's hope not BB.

[Canadiana]

4. "By siding so openly with one side of a very controversial issue..."

I didn't realize gayness was a controversial issue. I thought it was you're either gay...or you're not gay.

[ComerPerro]

6. Well, and by that logic, if you don't acknowledge the parade

aren't you taking the side of the fundies, and aren't you therefore showing your bias?

[Canadiana]

7. What I meant was I didn't realize that

being gay itself was controversial. You'd think that the fact that there are gay people in this world is a given! I have gone to and participated in Toronto's Gay pride parade...it's a crazy time.

[ComerPerro]

9. No, I know what you meant. I'm saying that accoring to the FReeper logic

The media would be taking a side either way on this "controversial issue".

If simply reporting it indicates that they support gay rights, wouldn't refusing to report it indicate that they oppose gay rights?

[ComerPerro]

5. am I so jaded that I am not surpised at all?

These people invented phony moral outrage.

Its all insincere bullshit, a persecution-complex to mask their bigotry and intolerance.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

8. Dear Fundie Dunce:

Why do you call people who run to the nearest newscam and scream PERSECUTION anytime someone who isn't Just Like You hasn't being marginalized appropriately a SILENT majority?