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- From: chloupek@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Last night on TV
- Message-ID: <15691.2b66b749@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 16:24:41 EST
- References: <1993Jan27.154958.29918@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
- Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Physics
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- In article <1993Jan27.154958.29918@news.cs.brandeis.edu>, pratt@binah.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
- > Did anyone see and have a reaction to last night's "First Person with
- > Maria Shriver"?
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- > I was especially struck by the theme of "Churchiness" through several of the segmen
- > segments I saw. One the one hand, most of the battles are waged against the
- > authority of either the Church or a church. On the other hand, gay people
- > themselves are represented as seeking validation through the Church or a
- > church. I'm deeply dismayed by this -- it seems that we are only recreating
- > potential situations of oppression. In my opinion, and in this I am unanimous,
- > deliver me from Dignity, Integrity, Concerned Lutherans, MCC...
- >
- I liked the show. It was really designed for strayts who know very little
- about gays and lesbians. The issue about religion is one that concerns most
- people and to show glb folks seeking spiritual fulfillment addresses that.
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- If there is any complaint about the show, it was that it tries to fit gays and
- lesbians into a heterosexual mode in all things. But again, this show was
- obviously designed to educate those who know very little about glb folks.
- Non-threatening in the extreme.
-
- Frank
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- Frank R. Chloupek
- CHLOUPEK@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu
- Department of Physics -- *The* Ohio State University
- (Not just any Ohio State University)
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- "I wouldn't mind marching off to battle with Alexander the Great, but I
- wouldn't want him pinching me."
- --State Sen. Eugene J. Watts (R-Galloway, and OSU associate professor)
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