From: "Lamar Davis" lamard@hartcom.net
Subject: Re: ABC Programming
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 23:47:54 -0400
Fwd by Lamar Davis
A letter from Mr. Neugent to ABC network Online Webmaster:
I wrote to
ABC
concerning a program called "THE PRACTICE." One of the lawyer's
mothers
decided she was gay and wanted her son to go to court to help her get a
marriage license to marry her 'partner.' I sent the following letter
to
ABC
yesterday and really did not expect a reply ...but I did get one.
My original message was: ABC is obsessed (or should I say abscessed)
with
the subject of homosexuality. I will no longer watch any of your
attempts to
convince the world that homosexuality is OK. THE PRACTICE can be a
fairly
good show but last night's program was so typical of your agenda. You
picked
the 'dufus' of the office to be the one who was against the idea of his
mother being gay and made him look like a whiner because he had
convictions.
This type of mentality calls people like me a "gay basher."
Read the first chapter of Romans (that's in the Bible) and see what the
apostle Paul had to say about it... He and God and Jesus were all 'gay
bashers.' What if he'd fallen in love with her cocker spaniel ...is
that
an alternative lifestyle? (By the way, the Bible speaks against that,
too.)
Jim Neugent
Here is ABC's reply from the ABC online Webmaster:
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"How about getting your nose out of the Bible (which is ONLY a book of
stories compiled by MANY different writers hundreds of years ago) and
read the Declaration of Independence (what our nation is built on)
where
it says
"All Men are Created Equal"-and try treating them that way for a
change!?
Or, better yet, try thinking for yourself and stop using an archaic
book
of
stories as your lame crutch for your existence. You are in the minority
in
this country and your boycott will not affect us or our freedom of
expression."
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Mr. Neugent responded to ABC:
"Thanks for your reply. Evidently, I hit a nerve from your harsh
reply.
I will share it with all with whom I come in contact. Hopefully, the
Arkansas Democrat Newspaper will include it in one of their columns.
And...I will be praying for you.
Jim Neugent
Mena, Arkansas