As O'Donnell explained to a reporter during her promotional tour: "It's hard to argue with the voices of innocent children telling the truth about their life and love."Yeah, like when a thirteen year-old girl says she's "in love" with a man and sees nothing wrong with having sex with him, right? Or, make it a boy her age. Parents shouldn't argue?
The show is quite obviously (and annoyingly) packaged to look like "Sesame Street," with lots of adorable children talking to the camera, musical performances by children and animated segments. Yet HBO actually had to tag the show with an "Adult Content" label. One reason came near the 40-minute show's end, when a parade of cartoon sperm danced in top hats around an egg and sang a Frank Sinatra song.I'm sure Sinatra was a big proponent of same-sex sodomy, after all. Did we really need a poor imitation of "Avenue Q"?
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There is also a strange cartoon about in vitro fertilization, with O'Donnell singing about how "my science project is me" and even boasting "don't you wish you'd started life in a dish?"
Actually, I like the idea that I was created when a bride and groom engaged in an act of love with each other, rather than in a lab.
It's not all bad.
Adoption is promoted, and that is good. Maya, a girl adopted from China, explains that she was born in a country with a one-child policy, and her parents loved her, but they wanted a boy. Maya looks into the camera with a twinkle and says, "I was born. That's why I feel really lucky."Somehow, I doubt NOW will get as upset about that as they did about Tim Tebow and his mother talking about being glad Tim was born.
Then viewers see O'Donnell having a chat with her youngest daughter, Vivienne, age 6, who is actually the biological offspring of O'Donnell's former partner, Kelli Carpenter. Despite this fact of life, Vivienne actually calls Rosie "Mom," and her mother "Kel." O'Donnell underlined that those are the usual titles used when asked about it on her blog.O'Donnell makes a poor spokesperson for same-sex parenting – but I'm not sure anyone could be a great spokesperson for intentionally bringing a child into a fatherless situation.
In reading the publicity clips surrounding the show, it's obvious that O'Donnell's four adopted children are angry and confused. O'Donnell has now moved on to a relationship with a Texas mother of six, and hopes to merge the 10 children into what she calls the "Gay-dy Bunch."Hey, as long as O'Donnell's wants are being met, nothing else matters, right?Is this a game?
O'Donnell wants to take this documentary into schools "to hold discussions about families."So much for the denials that schools would be teaching marriage neutering. At least in states where marriage is defined as involving a man and a woman, parents will have some leverage to object.
"It doesn't matter if you have one parent. It doesn't matter if you have two moms. It doesn't matter if you have two dads. Just stick with it. A family's a family."
ReplyDeleteSo, this is an argument for same-sex marriage?
Why is it not just as much an argument for legally declaring single parents as being married to themselves, so that their children feel better about it?
The other thing I have to ask is, why do Hollywood stars continue to think that average Americans should care in the slightest what Hollywood thinks marriage should be, let alone regard its representatives as some type of authority figures on what it should be?
ReplyDeleteI will say it: Hollywood (and, more broadly, the entertainment world as a whole) brought the easy-divorce-and-remarriage culture to America, and now it has filtered down to a large extent to middle America as well, yes, including the rural areas and so-called "red" states. Then they also brought us the culture of living together without getting married, and that has filtered to middle America also. And with disastrous results. Now they expect us all to follow their expert advice on marriage and buy into the pansexual approach toward looking at all matters of things, and for marriage to reflect that outlook. And they expect us to believe that that will all be just Rosie, because they say so and they're so much smarter than the rest of us.
It is time for supporters of historical marriage to say it, and point it out to the general population. Hollywood has lost all credibility on defining what marriage should mean, and it lost that credibility years ago. There is not one reason why average Americans should listen to any number of Hollywood/entertainment stars on marriage related issues. And if any star came to my front door trying to explain to me oh-so-nicely why I should, I would tell them exactly that to their face.