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Tuesday, March 14, 2006

It depends on how you lie about the question

The latest abortion misinformation from Tony Perkins at the FRC:

The Associated Press is headlining its latest abortion poll. "A solid majority of Americans feel that Roe v. Wade...should be upheld," the AP reports. "But most [Americans] support at least some restrictions on when abortion can be performed," the wire service says. No wonder most Americans report conflicting opinions on abortion - it follows the confusing or misleading media reporting. Americans demonstrably do not know that Roe struck down the abortion laws of all 50 states. They do not know that Roe gave us unfettered abortion-on-demand.

Just a thought: Americans do not "know" that Roe gave us unfettered abortion on demand because Roe did not give us unfettered abortion on demand. Abortions are fettered in time, place, manner, licensing, and notice. Abortions after fetal viability may be fettered in any way imaginable, so long as there is an exception to protect the life and health of the mother. Tony Perkins prefers to lie about Roe rather than deal with reality.

The FRC also doesn't like Tom Hanks -- Tom "Famously Devoted to his Family" Hanks:

Tom Hank's [sic] movie Big was apparently not big enough. Hanks is now producing an HBO series titled Big Love. It's about a Viagra-inspired husband, his seven children, and his three wives. The "sister wives," as they are called, live in adjoining houses in Salt Lake City. It's Hollywood's way of flying under the moral radar by using drama and situational humor. But it is no laughing matter; this is exactly how Hollywood "mainstreams" abnormal lifestyles. Americans were fed a steady diet of homosexuality displayed as humorous and non-threatening in advance of the push for same-sex marriage.

Is that what Big Love is about? I haven't seen the program, so I don't know. Perkins hasn't seen it either, but he's happy to pretend. Here's one review of the new show:

The central conflict of "Big Love" revolves around Hendrickson's attempt to deal with the sex, fighting, jealousy and chaos that comes with having multiple families.

Is that glamorizing or mainstreaming polygamy? I dunno. Is Tom Hanks advocating polygamy? I rather doubt it. If Hanks is advocating polygamy, I suppose that means Don Fedderson and Fred MacMurray advocated the joys of widowed parenting.

3 Comments:

"Big Love" promotes polygamy like "Six Feet Under" promoted being a funeral director. Polygamy provides a backdrop for the show, but that lifestyle is hardly promoted (at least, based on the first episode). The multiple marriage scenario creates amble opportunity for conflict and drama.

The only sex-related story line in the first episode involved the husband's impotence. The only nudity was Bill Paxton's backside and sack. Ooooh, salacious.

Think of the mundane and unpleasant aspects of marriage and family, then multiply it by three. That is Big Love. Woo-hoo, sign me up.

By Anonymous, at 1:54 PM