NBC’s new TV show, “The New Normal,” which premieres tonight, is making hate group head Peter LaBarbera “depressed,” as he laments that Hollywood has yet to have “a healthy, contented ex-gay in a movie or a TV show,” while not mentioning that “ex-gay therapy” has been called harmful by major medical organizations.
LaBarbera, who runs the SPLC-certified anti-gay hate group Americans For Truth About Homosexuality, talked with radical right wing radio host Janet Mefferd about ”The New Normal,” and Brian Tashman at Right Wing Watch published the audio and this transcript:
Mefferd: Peter let’s talk a little bit about this TV show that is coming out, I’m sure a lot of people that are listening right now know about it, it’s premiering on NBC tomorrow night, it’s called “The New Normal,” which I find a little ironic considering it’s premiering on 9/11 and everybody always talked about ‘the new normal’ after 9/11, it’s kind of a bizarre coincidence. Tell us a little bit about this TV show, what do you know about it?
LaBarbera: Well first of all I’m depressed because it stars the guy who was the sidekick in National Treasurer, the Nicholas Cage movie, which was one of my family favorites and he plays a homosexual in the TV show “The New Normal.” It’s about two gay guys who want to adopt a child, I’m sorry want to have a child by inseminating a woman, so they’re interviewing in the trailer, the two gay guys are interviewing the woman who will bear their child. Of course it’s extremely manipulative, they ask her why they want to carry a child that’s not yours, and she says she looked out and she saw a lesbian couple being yelled at by a homeless woman and she thought it was just like another family, so even in the trailer you can see the incredible propaganda that we’re going to be subjected to in this movie. What’s most shocking about it is it’s just so out in the open now that NBC can be doing heavy duty promotion of a TV show that’s built totally around the idea of two homosexual men adopting a baby, is that really ‘the new normal’ for America in 2012? It’s shocking.
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LaBarbera: It’s all about manipulation and Hollywood has been doing this for so long and there’s no issue that they do it more on than the homosexual issue. When is Hollywood ever going to have a healthy, contented ex-gay in a movie or a TV show? Not a caricature, not the miserable, struggling ex-homosexual sort of like I guess, I’m tempted to say Alan Chambers, who is still gay or they are acting like they are gay and they are starting to adopt gay activism. I’m talking about a fully happy, contented former homosexual. Will it be decades before we see one of those on TV?
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Tashman notes that “Exodus International president Alan Chambers… recently lost support from Religious Right activists after admitting that ‘99.9%‘ of people who have tried to change their sexual orientation have failed to realize such a conversion.”
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BUT SEE this as a celebration of NEW NORMAL's debut:
Infographic: What the One Million Moms Don’t Want You to See
…In honor of tonight’s series premiere of The New Normal, GLAAD released this timeline infographic which colorfully displays the long history (40 Years) of LGBT families on American television. See the full graphic after the jump!
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Huh..I thought Paul Ryan was a healthy contented ex-gay we see on TV. Guess I was wrong.
"When is Hollywood ever going to have a healthy, contented ex-gay in a movie or a TV show? "
When someone provides even the slightest verifiable evidence that such a being exists. Now move along, Simple.
I watched this. Minus the stereotyping of gay people being into fashion (I'm not), I found the pilot to be quite amusing. The comments were kind of racy, but it also goes to show that people now and days are still bigots ("I just ate a black and gay stew" being one of them, but I was laughing because of the context it was used in.)
Overall, my partner and I like the show because for where we live and where we go, it's almost like seeing the real world, but in a comical view.
The comments from Mr. LaBarbera are so surreal, I thought I was reading fiction. I would love to see a so called "healthy" ex-gay!!!! There will never be an ex-gay on TV because there is no such thing except in fiction and from the so called ex gay industry. Where are these so called ex gays, their communities, their businesses, their families, their neighborhoods, their cruises,etc? You can say what you want about the gay community, but at least we are real with real families, real communiites, real businesses, real networks, etc. And, while we are on it, being ex gay is NOT a sexual orientation.
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