Larry King tonight: Homosexuality

[Guest jeffOH]

Using Brokeback Mountain's Golden Globe wins as an opener, Larry King has openly gay actor Chad Allen, openly gay mayor of Casper, Wyoming- Guy Padgett, conservative radio host Janet Parshall and Baptist minister Al Mohler to discuss homosexuality/gay marriage. Interesting discussion so far. Will be repeated at midnight.

[Guest zipperzone]

>Using Brokeback Mountain's Golden Globe wins as an opener,

>Larry King has openly gay actor Chad Allen, openly gay mayor

>of Casper, Wyoming- Guy Padgett, conservative radio host Janet

>Parshall and Baptist minister Al Mohler to discuss

>homosexuality/gay marriage. Interesting discussion so far.

>Will be repeated at midnight.

 

What could have been a teriffic show, was, IMO, rather weak.

 

The gay ex-mayor was a complete woose and really didn't have the balls to stand up to the two homophobic "Christian" guests. He acted like a typical politition - trying to appease everybody.

 

Chad Allen was better (marginally) but would have sounded stronger if he had kept the religion BS out of it.

 

I though the strongest opposition to the homophobes came from Old Larry himself.

 

What was your take on the show?

[Guest jeffOH]

I agree, it was somewhat weak. I was just glad it didn't degenerate into a shoutfest.

[RockHard]

The Larry King show SUCKED. Why that man hasn't followed Barbara Walters' lead and retired is beyond me. I have nothing against senior citizens working but when their same-old-TV-schtick appears more tired than they do (ie: Dick Clark), it's time to leave the stage. A television camera is NOT life-support.

 

The idea to put several meaningless out-of-the-closet homosexuals on a panel with several righteous Christian conservatives (who didn't see the movie) to discuss the impact of Brokeback Mountain on American society is an idea that was picked from some producer's ass who shit out his brains in a not-so-recent bowel movement.

 

The idea was NOT creative or inspired: pure sensationalist banality and downright stupid. There wasn't an interesting brain cell among this entire group.

 

Forget about gay men: who in American society can sit at a table with hard-core Christian conservatives and discuss the merits of waiting until marriage before having sex with your partner and not come off as an "us versus them," "my God knows more than your God" debate?

 

Wait until marriage before having sex? Give me a fucking break! I don't believe in a God that requires all marriage-less people to live without human intimacy. Wackos who espouse this brainless, archaic, uber-conservative bullshit don't deserve a bully pulpit, especially from a man who's been married seven times and can't ask a probing question deeper than a thimble.

 

Where's Bill Maher when you need him?

[Guest RandyRon]

Even though I am a working "Senior Citizen," I agree that Larry King should pack it in. Does anyone watch this program? I didn't see it but I wouldn't watch Larry King if he had the entire NFL wrestling naked on it. (OK, so I exaggerated, I would watch that.)

 

 

Of his programs (few) that I have seen, most were of Larry gushing over his guests. Probably didn't do that on this one. Frankly, it sounds as if I didn't miss a thing.

 

I don't watch any member of the Religious Right just as I don't watch programs starring other bigots. Trying to have a sensible discussion with those people is pointless. It just gives them another platform for them to spew their hatred.

[+ deej]

>Does anyone watch this program?

 

The show is profitable or it wouldn't still be on the air, so apparently somebody does.

 

Frankly, I applaud the old fart for airing the topic at all. It's a subject he has been uncomfortable with before, and it gets the discussion (however one-sided) in front of people that might not ever think about it.

[Guest zipperzone]

> Frankly, it sounds as if I didn't miss a thing.

 

You got that one right!

 

>I don't watch any member of the Religious Right just as I

>don't watch programs starring other bigots.

 

They make me want to hurl too, but I sometimes watch because I think it pays to "know the enemy"

 

>Trying to have a

>sensible discussion with those people is pointless. It just

>gives them another platform for them to spew their hatred.

 

On the Gay Marriage question both the homophobes were saying that it should be left up to the American people to decide on this matter.

What utter bullshit - if such decisions affecting equality were left up to the American people, blacks would still be riding on the back of the bus.