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lillian13As many of you know, the owner of Outsidepride.com (a gardening supply website), sent out the following letter to everyone on the company mailing list:
This is not your typical newsletter from Outsidepride.com, Inc.
In fact, this is the first one in six years which is not business
related.I apologize for cluttering your inbox with an unsolicited email;
however you are free to unsubscribe just by clicking the link at the
bottom.
I want to share with you my television viewing experience the other
night on prime time television. I ask those of you who agree with me to
go to www.cbs.com and go to the bottom of the page, click the feed back
link and express your opinion. I know the vast majority of you will
agree with me as all polls indicate. We are the majority, not the minority
as the liberal media would lead you to believe.
My wife and I sat down to watch television the other night with our
children. Cold Case was on which is normally a fairly enjoyable show to
watch; however, the last half hour of the show dealt with a young man
who wished he had asked his male friend to come with him (long story
short). The show ended with the two men hugging and obvious intimation
they had discovered their gay feelings towards each other. The very next
show was Without A Trace. The whole last half hour of this show was
about two lesbians who were struggling with their feelings of lesbianism.
It ended with full acceptance from one father and the two lesbians
making out. Yes, they were kissing right at the end of the show on public
prime time television. So much for wholesome family television.
Now, I am NOT trying to bash homosexuals and I am not a
bigot;however, I feel homosexuality is morally wrong and should not be "promoted" as
what is the norm for society. Text books are being rewritten as I am
writing this to "highlight" every homosexual who has made a contribution
to society. There are teachers who have been asked to make sure
students know that, "This person in history was a homosexual." History is
being rewritten to promote homosexuality and prime time television is doing
its best to make homosexuality a "normal" behavior. If homosexuality
was the norm, civilization would have ceased to exist thousands of years
ago. Procreation takes a man and a woman. There was Adam and then there
was Eve, not Adam and Steve.
There are literally tens of thousand of you reading this email right
now. If you are tired of the way public television is going let CBS
know! It will only take about 1 minute of your time. Again, just goto
www.cbs.com and click the feedback link at the bottom. It is time the
majority speak up and not let the minority run this country. The majority
can bring back the Christian heritage this country was founded on because
it is, "In God We Trust."
Thank you for your time,
Troy Hake
President
Outsidepride.com, Inc.
In fact, this is the first one in six years which is not business
related.I apologize for cluttering your inbox with an unsolicited email;
however you are free to unsubscribe just by clicking the link at the
bottom.
I want to share with you my television viewing experience the other
night on prime time television. I ask those of you who agree with me to
go to www.cbs.com and go to the bottom of the page, click the feed back
link and express your opinion. I know the vast majority of you will
agree with me as all polls indicate. We are the majority, not the minority
as the liberal media would lead you to believe.
My wife and I sat down to watch television the other night with our
children. Cold Case was on which is normally a fairly enjoyable show to
watch; however, the last half hour of the show dealt with a young man
who wished he had asked his male friend to come with him (long story
short). The show ended with the two men hugging and obvious intimation
they had discovered their gay feelings towards each other. The very next
show was Without A Trace. The whole last half hour of this show was
about two lesbians who were struggling with their feelings of lesbianism.
It ended with full acceptance from one father and the two lesbians
making out. Yes, they were kissing right at the end of the show on public
prime time television. So much for wholesome family television.
Now, I am NOT trying to bash homosexuals and I am not a
bigot;however, I feel homosexuality is morally wrong and should not be "promoted" as
what is the norm for society. Text books are being rewritten as I am
writing this to "highlight" every homosexual who has made a contribution
to society. There are teachers who have been asked to make sure
students know that, "This person in history was a homosexual." History is
being rewritten to promote homosexuality and prime time television is doing
its best to make homosexuality a "normal" behavior. If homosexuality
was the norm, civilization would have ceased to exist thousands of years
ago. Procreation takes a man and a woman. There was Adam and then there
was Eve, not Adam and Steve.
There are literally tens of thousand of you reading this email right
now. If you are tired of the way public television is going let CBS
know! It will only take about 1 minute of your time. Again, just goto
www.cbs.com and click the feedback link at the bottom. It is time the
majority speak up and not let the minority run this country. The majority
can bring back the Christian heritage this country was founded on because
it is, "In God We Trust."
Thank you for your time,
Troy Hake
President
Outsidepride.com, Inc.
OK, I normally avoid all politically-motivated boycotts like the plague. But I sent him this letter:
Dear sir,
As I sit here, a straight woman from the heart of the Bible Belt and read your message of hatred, (forwarded to me from someone on your company's mailing list)--I have some words of advice for you:
1) Don't assume that everyone on your mailing list shares any of your political or religious views. They don't.
2) Neither "Without a Trace" nor "Cold Case" are wholesome family viewing. They are ADULT dramas, featuring ADULT situations (at least, to the limits of network TV). You want wholesome family viewing? Watch the ABC Family Channel.
3) Many of the episodes of these shows feature rape, murder, child and spousal abuse, and drug abuse. (Wholesome family viewing, remember?) And yet you objected to them showing healthy same-sex relationships. If by simply seeing the approximately 1.75 hours of these viewpoints you feel your children have been irreparably scarred, it sounds like you need to worry about your parenting, not what they see on TV.
4) These shows are re-runs. They've been out there (so to speak) for months, and I haven't seen a sudden upsurge of gayness anywhere. And when they showed originally? I didn't hear a peep from any "family values" groups. So it's just you.
5) Move down here to the Bible Belt. I'm sure the folks who wave the signs at the funerals of gay men that read "GAY = Got AIDS Yet" will welcome you with open arms.
In closing, I wanted to let you know that I have made sure everyone on a couple of thousand-plus-member mailing lists I subscribe to now know about this letter. Many of them garden. And they will tell their friends, and so on.
The Internet is Watching.
Sincerely,
Lillian Butler
I sent it to his email address on the website: troyh@outsidepride.com.
If you want to contact him through his company's website, here is the link.
I sent it to his email address on the website: troyh@outsidepride.com.
If you want to contact him through his company's website, here is the link.
