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J.J. Abrams: ‘Star Wars’ will have gay characters - really?

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If J.J. Abrams , the director of   Star Wars: The Force Awakens , has his way with future scripts, expect homosexual characters. Abrams was hosting a pre- Academy Awards event at his production company Bad Robot when asked about prospects for homosexual characters. He responded, “Of course, of course. When I talk about inclusivity it’s not excluding gay characters. It’s about inclusivity. So of course.” Abrams like everyone else in Hollywood was talking about inclusivity in response to all this year’s nominees for acting Oscars being white (though largely unnoticed was the prominence of gay or transgender storylines). On the larger issue of color—or lack thereof—Abrams had told the   Daily Beast ,  “It’s shameful. We all need to do better to represent this world. It’s something that is important to me, and is something that we’re focusing on at Bad Robot.” Speculation immediately began about the close relationship between two leading male characters, P...

The Danish Girl is nonsense. I would know. I was once a transgender woman.

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Dr. Camille Cabral, une activiste des Transgenres à une manifestation pour les Trans à Paris en France (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) At times, I felt as if I were trapped in the audience of a never-ending timeshare resort sales pitch. When would the predictable sound bites be over? The Danish Girl  is stuffed with fluffy, gooey sentiments designed to convince “homophobic” or “transphobic” heterosexuals that the painful twists and turns of a transgender person’s life are really a healthy and courageous quest to embrace his or her true self. The film overflows with familiar LGBT talking points. At a key moment, the lead character exclaims, “I finally am who I am!” The Danish Girl , based on the novel of the same name by David Ebershoff and directed by Tom Hooper , tells the story of Lilli Elbe , one of the first known recipients of sex-reassignment surgery . The movie stars Eddie Redmayne in the role of Einar Wegener/Lilli Elbe, the emerging transgender female. Alicia Vika...

Elton John urges boycott after gay designers Dolce and Gabbana come out against gay ‘marriage,’ adoption

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Deutsch: Logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) ROME , March 16, 2015  – Openly gay fashion legends Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana are facing a backlash of controversy for saying they oppose gay “marriage” and adoption, find  in vitro  fertilization unnatural, and believe procreation “must be an act of love.” “We oppose gay adoptions,” the two told the Italian magazine  Panorama . “The only family is the traditional one.” “You are born to a mother and a father – or at least that’s how it should be,” Dolce said. “The family is not a fad. In it, there is a supernatural sense of belonging,” Gabbana added. The fashion duo expressed their vehement opposition to IVF , a technology that homosexual couples use to have children. “No chemical offsprings and rented uterus: life has a natural flow, there are things that should not be changed,” they said. Dolce said he opposed changing nature to create “children of chemistry, synthetic children, uteri for rent, sem...

Love is love - as three gay men now women marry each other?

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"Love is love, after all." That's the rationale offered by one of three gay men who were all married to each other on Valentine's Day in Thailand . You can read the story here. And — least people scoff and think that this is happening a world away — you can read about Massachusetts' first lesbian "throuple" and their anticipated first child here. Love is love, the left is fond of saying. When you get right down to it, that is really the only rationale offered for redefining marriage — they say that redefining marriage is just about allowing people who love each other to come together and celebrate their love. Disallowing that is discrimination against those who simply love differently. Except it's not. Marriage is so much more than merely a relationship of love. Marriage is an institution that serves to bind the complementary halves of humanity — male and female — in a publicly declared relationship that is designed to be stable, permanent, exc...

Transgenderism a thought experiment - gone bad

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A recent  piece  in  The Federalist  by Stella Morabito captures some of the political and statistical realities surrounding transgenderism.  The ease with which societal elites in academia, medicine, and Hollywood sanction a child's war against his own body and call it healthy, normal, or something to celebrate has its foundation in the contraceptive revolution of our culture.  Women were told that the very thing that most marks them as a woman, their wondrous reproductive systems, their fertility, is their enemy.  If only they can break free from the tyranny of their own bodies, they will be free.  But we cannot break free from our bodies without further destruction. Hormonal contraception has brought us all kinds of "liberation" - cancer, unintended miscarriages, the masking of symptoms of reproductive disease until it may be too late to treat or mitigate, changes to our pheromone profile that attract and repel different types of sexu...

Hollywood strips Christian song of Oscar nomination but celebrates pedophilia: Critic

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HOLLYWOOD, February 6, 2014 – A faith-themed film can lose its Oscar nomination for a common lobbying tactic, but celebrating – or possibly committing – pedophilia is no barrier to an Oscar nod, a prominent critic said today. His remarks are part of the ongoing backlash against the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences ' decision to rescind the Academy Award nomination  for Best Original Song to the faith-themed film  Alone Yet Not Alone . That step, which Hollywood observers say is nearly unprecedented, has brought accusations of “faith-based bigotry,” howls of hypocrisy – and a petition drive from a pro-life group to restore the nomination, which has garnered at least one well-known signature. Composers Bruce Broughton and Dennis Spiegal earned the nomination for the song about God's silent presence, which was sung by Joni Eareckson Tada . When Broughton sent an e-mail to friends asking them to consider his song, the Academy revoked the nominat...