For those of you not familiar with the TLC reality show 19 Kids and Counting, here is the synopsis: A conservative family in Tontitown, Ark. is comprised of 19 children and two parents, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar. The show was a simple voyeuristic pleasure until it wasn’t. You see the Duggars have lived off…
TLC has pulled all airings of “19 Kids and Counting” from its lineup after tabloid reports of child molestation allegations against Josh Duggar proved to be true, reports The Huffington Post. TMZ first reported the decision stating that the fate of the show is uncertain, but there’s now so much heat in the wake of…
TLC has created an arsenal of wildly successul reality television shows by sensationalizing the stories of unusual people. Media Matters for America’s latest piece looks at what happens when a network’s search for ratings gold comes at the expense of vulnerable LGBT people. Jan. 11, TLC aired its controversial one-hour special, My Husband’s Not Gay. The…
The Duggar family – made famous by TLC’s popular reality television show – just helped repeal an ordinance protecting LGBT people from discrimination. What responsibility does TLC have for the work being carried out by its reality TV superstars asks Media Matters for America. Since the debut of their TLC reality show 19 Kids and…
Thousands have signed a petition calling for the cancellation of the TLC series 19 Kids and Counting over the stars’ discriminatory sentiments against the LGBT community. According to the Huffington Post, a petition on Change.org launched by Jim Wissick of San Jose, Calif., states that 19 Kids and Counting, starring conservative Baptists Jim Bob and…
There’s been many words spoken by Lisa Vogel, the founder and 39-year key organizer of the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival about the festival’s women-born-women (WBW) policy. This year, she’s referring to the policy as an intention, but six of one, half-a-dozen of the other – she’s referred to the intention as policy in the past….
Fox News is witnessing the nasty byproducts of its endless campaign to depict extreme, virulent homophobia as a normal part of mainstream Christianity, reports Media Matters for America in their latest post. It’s long been standard practice at Fox News to conflate anti-gay bigotry with Christianity. Last December, for instance, the network rushed to defend Duck Dynasty star…
The latest research from Media Matters for America has revealed that Janet Mefferd has become one of talk radio’s most relentless purveyors of homophobia, using her eponymous program to provide a platform to fringe anti-LGBT activists and to spout her own bigoted, occasionally conspiracy-minded views. WHO IS JANET MEFFERD? Billed as a “distinctively Christ-centered” host, Mefferd…
Today, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington D.C., the Values Voter Summit, a veritable who’s who of right-wing conservative politicians, journalists, religious and media personalities, will gather for three days to promote their exclusive brand of Americana based on faith, family and opportunity. Such iconic anti-gay figures as Tony Perkins, president of the Family…
Media Matters have responded to an op-ed in the conservative Washington Times that assailed the campaign for transgender equality, lamenting that “you no longer need lady bits to be a lady” and asserting that the LGBT movement is part of a broader left-wing effort to “dismantle” Western civilization. In an October 9 column, the Media Research Center’s Matt Philbin…
