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RIGHT ON!

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:07:00 -0700

Thank you so much for your comment! I am a bisexual preschool teacher in my first lesbian relationship (going on 4 years now). I hail from a HIGHLY religious Baptist family, and they refuse to allow my girlfriend (a middle school teacher) into their homes. As far as I am concerned, this goes against every concept of "Christian love" I was taught in my first two decades of life. Just because I am in love with a woman doesn't make me a pedophile, or a "lesbo trainer." I do not even refer to my partner at school as anything but "the lady I live with," simply because I know the parents like me, but may not appreciate me teaching tolerance to their children, and I really need my job. I take care of many children (I babysit for 13 or so families on a regular basis), and every family who drops their kids off at my house are more than comfortable with my parenting skills in their absence. This episode didn't make any sense to me. "I think you guys are great parents, but homosexuals shouldn't be parents." What the heck is that supposed to mean???!?!?

no last name

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:27:14 -0700

Funny how she can go on TV and act like such a judgemnetal person, but never have her last name released. Oh, poor baby. Is she afraid the big bad gays will find her and convert her? Maybe she better put in another call to god about this and see what the answer is. Then again, maybe she did and the answer was, "don't release your last name. Stay in the cult."

30 Days

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:14:57 -0700

I too am very upset that FOX Networks would not take the part out of the show, or at the very least get a statement from our side. Also I was somewhat scared that again, the show seems to lean on the woman's side and did not present an equal balance to the issue. I worry that it may put us back a few years after all the struggle we have made to move forward for equal rights for the homosexual community. Joyce Kipp, President PFLAG Bel Air/Susquehanna, Harford County, Maryland.

Mormon and Ashamed

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:16:46 -0700

This was the most disappointing episode yet. I am an active member of the LDS church ( the same church that Kati belongs to) and am completely ashamed of Kati and her ignorant self-righteousness. I would like to believe that the vast majority of members of the LDS Church consider themselves to be Christians, but I see nothing Christian about Kati's attitude and behavior. To cling so closely to one's principles and "moral fiber" and to ignore the experiences and struggles of real, ordinary people who are trying to build a nurturing and supportive family is in complete opposition to the compassion that all Christians should seek to cultivate in their relationships with others. Let us remember that nowhere in the Bible, or any other source that Christians like Katie mention to support their disdain of homosexuality, does it say that one must, in order to be a true Christian, be intolerant of homosexuals or seek to take away their rights. To claim that one's moral convictions gives one the right to seek to limit the rights of other individuals--who want nothing more than to raise happy, healthy children--demonstrates an absence of Christ-like love and understanding and an abundance of the smugness and narcissism that unfortunately characterizes many who consider themselves Christian.

Cable television examines homophobia but refuses to correct defamatory misrepresentation by anti-gay activist

Jeff — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:03:37 -0700

The Family Equality Council and the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) ask community members to contact FX Networks and express their concern about a defamatory claim by an anti-gay activist that appears - unchallenged - in the June 24 installment of 30 Days.