Another battle – please stand with us! By Lisa Van Houten

Fellow gardeners can relate – pull one weed and you turn around and another has taken its place.  It’s that way in this ministry as well.  We can hardly breathe a sigh of satisfaction at the cancellation of the offensive “GCB” before turning to face the next disgusting show.  While “GCB” has withered and died, another weed in ABC’s cesspool of a garden has taken root and is flourishing – the show “Don’t Trust the B—- in Apt. 23,” now renewed for another season.

This week’s episode was the worst since the show premiered last month – and that’s saying a lot! Especially since the opening scene of the very first episode had one female character (Chloe) having sex with her roommate June’s fiancé on top of a birthday cake.

Hardcore advertiser, Darden Restaurants (Olive Garden, Red Lobster) advertised again for the third straight week.  Other returning advertisers include Kraft, Volkswagen, Hyundai, and AT&T.  New advertisers include “family” restaurant McDonald’s, as well as Sealy Mattress, Honda, and Esteé Lauder.

Click here to send a message to the corporations empowering the degrading content of “Don’t Trust the B—- in Apt. 23.”

 

The premise of “Don’t Trust the B—- in Apt. 23” centers upon June, a “good,” wholesome, Midwestern girl moving to New York and rooming with Chloe,  a jaded, immoral New Yorker.  Chloe has decided to “educate” naïve June, and each episode depicts June compromising her values.  This episode has Chloe determined to “introduce” June to casual sex.

When June sees an attractive guy, but doesn’t consider him “husband material,” Chloe tells her:  “Just have casual sex.  It’s great! … Some guys are just for sex.” She tells her, “It’s just sex, it’s no big deal.”

Later as June goes out with the guy, Chloe reminds her:  “Remember it’s not a date, its casual sex.”

The next scene shows June in bed with this virtual stranger, proud of herself for engaging in illicit, casual sex.  June goes home and excitedly tells Chloe:  “I had casual sex!” As Chloe congratulates her, June says, “It was great!!  You were right!”

I just wanted to weep at this scene.  How many young girls (and guys) watching this show are picking up that message –   “It’s just sex, it’s no big deal.”

However, it is a big deal!  Young people are trading what should be an intimate expression of love and commitment designed by God to be shared within marriage, for a selfish, meaningless act.  And, sadly,  they don’t even know what they’re losing.  What they’re gaining, however, are the destructive emotional, physical, and spiritual consequences that are bound to follow.

The last several years we have promoted the outstanding DVD, “Sex Has a Price Tag” by the compelling abstinence speaker, Pam Stenzel.  Pam has brought her powerful message to schools and audiences all over the world and we have distributed thousands of her DVDs and have also brought her to our area to speak at several schools and events.  I recall an example Pam gave, equating casual sex to sticking a piece of tape on a person’s arm, and then ripping it off and placing it on another and then another and another.  After a while the tape no longer sticks.  It has lost its purpose and meaning – just like with casual sex.  And each time, a person leaves a little piece of themselves behind with each person they give themselves to.

An updated edition of “Sex Has a Price Tag” is now released under the new name:  “The High Cost of Free Love.”  The content is very similar and just as powerful as the original DVD. Click here to order Pam Stenzel’s powerful faith-based DVD “The High Cost of Free Love” (formerly Sex Has a Price Tag) or the public school version, Sex Still Has a Price Tag.

 

However, “Don’t Trust the B—- in Apt. 23” doesn’t tell the viewers the truth about the consequences of “free love,” instead the show perpetuates the destructive lie that “it’s just sex, it’s no big deal.”

If this storyline wasn’t enough, the episode doesn’t stop there with its offensive, degrading content.  The following demonstrates how truly perverse this show is.  The crude themes include June shown in the bathtub supposedly “pleasuring” herself.  Chloe tells her: “that was God talking directly to your body.” Also included was a female pastor who glowingly talked about a previous one night stand she had with a stranger.  The female pastor also watched a porno sex tape of Chloe’s and thanked her for the sex tips she got from it.  The pastor then distributed the porn, selling it for thousands of dollars.  Later Chloe, June, and other friends sit around to watch and analyze the sex tape.

 

This is the sickening content supported by the advertising dollars of McDonald’s, Olive Garden, Kraft, Esteé Lauder, AT&T, Sealy Mattress, Honda, Volkswagen, and others.

 

Click here to send a message to the corporations empowering this disgusting trash!

 

 

Order the faith-based abstinence resource, “The High Cost of Free Love” here.

 

Order the public school version, “Sex Still Has a Price Tag” here.

http://www.americandecency.org/archives/another-battle-%e2%80%93-please-stand-with-us/#more-6682

GCB – Gone, Canceled, Buh-Bye

Ten weeks ago ABC/Disney premiered the much hyped “GCB” – otherwise known as “Good Christian B—ches.”  Each of the 10 episodes made mockery of the Bible, of Christ, and of believers.  ABC pulled out all the stops to ensure GCB’s success – giving the show a prime spot in the lineup following two shows with a large viewership, airing tons of provocative promotions, using a fawning, lap dog industry of entertainment writers and commentators who praised the show as the best thing since sliced bread.  ABC heralded the show as the next “Desperate Housewives” and had high expectations that “GCB” would draw huge ratings.

Well, something happened that foiled their plans.  YOU happened!  Over the weekend it was announced that “GCB” was cancelled!  There will not be a second season for this show that broke new ground in its ridicule of Christianity.

 

The network executives, who obviously don’t know a thing about true Christianity, also don’t seem to understand the millions of American Christians who don’t find the mocking of their faith a laughing matter.  As thousands of you responded to our take action links to advertisers, numbers of sponsors pulled their ads, demonstrating to ABC that it would be difficult to sell the show to “A” list advertisers.   In addition, the overall ratings were mediocre at best.  The high viewership of the preceding shows didn’t carry over to “GCB.”

While Christian bashing may be a favorite sport in Hollywood, ABC has found that we Christians who are “clinging” to our religion – or rather, clinging to the Cross – would not tune in to a show that ridicules our faith.  So, lousy advertiser support and lousy ratings equals no “GCB!”

The Los Angeles Times wrote:  “Once touted as the successor to “Desperate Housewives,” ABC’s hour-long comedy “GCB,” about out-of-control Dallas divas, didn’t make the cut for the fall schedule. While its ratings weren’t the greatest, shows that have smaller audiences are returning. So why aren’t the girls of “GCB” coming back? Ask Madison Avenue. Originally called “Good Christian B*****s” and then “Good Christian Belles,” the show’s name didn’t charm advertisers, who weren’t fooled by the acronym. The show proved to be a hot potato for ABC’s sales department even without a B or C word in the title …”

Another secular commentator stated:   “The controversy surrounding the ABC series GCB, which first had to do with objections to its original title, Good Christian B…hes, followed by accusations that it was poking fun at Christians, have finally caught up with it, as ABC has reportedly decided not to renew GCB…”

 

ADA was one of the few ministries engaged in monitoring this direct assault upon Christ and Christians that has ever been shown on network television.  Each week we analyzed the program and provided a mechanism to contact the list of sponsors keeping this show on the air.

What would have happened if we together had not spoken out against this show whose underlying theme was the contempt of Christianity?  If we hadn’t expressed outrage, would advertisers have shied away?  I doubt it.  If the advertising support had been strong, the show would most likely have been renewed even if the ratings were poor.  As the LA Times commented above, shows with lower ratings were renewed.  However, as we put pressure on the sponsors, we kept the show from gaining a foothold and becoming established and perhaps growing in viewership over time.

Though there will be no great accolades or press acknowledgements of the part that we played, our united, diligent efforts  significantly contributed to the departure of this degrading television show.

How I wish that we could ensure you that everything we do would result in success; that all programs that we target for monitoring due to their perversity would be dropped; that the advertisers that we address would change in their inclination as to what they sponsor.

However, hard fought victories are still seen.

And what would happen and/or what will happen if our influence (and of other like-minded ministries) is dispelled, quenched – no longer supported?

Your voice matters!  Taking a moment to click on the “take action” links we provide does make a difference!  We may not always see large victories such as this, but by speaking up we are being salt and light to a watching world.

In our May newsletter, I raised the question in “Does what we do matter?”  One comment in reply was made by a former fourth grade student of mine.  Michelle sent a picture of her beautiful young children and answered by question with the words:  “Just look at your grandchildren and you will know the answer.”

 

May God shrink our support and dissolve our existence if we ever grow timid and become part of the politically correct crowd.   May it also be that God will enlarge our support as we stay faithful to Him in standing fast against that which opposes His Holy Name and His righteous standards bestowed upon us for His glory and our blessing.  We need your stand with us!

 

Your support is vital to our ongoing efforts – not only by contacting corporations, but by empowering us to stay in the battle with your financial support.  We are dependent upon the sacrificial giving of you, our friends, to continue in ministry.

 

Please click here to show your support and help keep us in the battle!

 

Thank you for standing with us!  This victory is in large part to you who took a moment each week to express concern to sponsors, who forwarded our emails to friends and family, and who spoke out against such Christian bigotry.

 

Please continue to stand together with us with your financial support and as we give you opportunity to “take action” against the darkness of our age.

http://www.americandecency.org/archives/gcb-%e2%80%93-gone-canceled-buh-bye/#more-6664

Keep the pressure on sponsors of trash TV

Darden Restaurants – Red Lobster and Olive Garden – have been regularly sponsoring offensive shows such as “Don’t Trust the B—- in Apt. 23” and “GCB.”   And Red Lobster has again sponsored this week’s episode of “Don’t Trust the B—- in Apt. 23.”   However, on a positive note, regular sponsors PepsiCo, Old Navy, and Mazda did not advertise this week after hearing from many of you!

 

Help us keep the pressure upon Red Lobster, as well as the other advertisers sponsoring “Don’t Trust the B—- in Apt. 23” – which include repeat offenders Kraft cheese, Honda, and new advertisers Subway, Nikon, Gevalia coffee, and Hyundai.

 

These corporations need to hear from you!

 

Take Action! Click here to send a message to the advertisers supporting this crude show.

 

The latest episode of “Don’t Trust the B—- in Apt. 23” featured the two female roommates being filmed for a fetish porn website.  In a scheme by roommate Chloe to earn rent money, she hides webcams throughout their apartment – including the bathroom – to film the two girls and sell on a porn site.  Not only does this segment depict lewd erotic imagery with lesbian overtones, it also condones such illicit, degrading behavior to impressionable young viewers.

The episode does depict the “good” roommate, June, going to church – but of course the church service, a Korean church, is lampooned and used as a punch line.  And then June, who begins the episode challenging Chloe on moral absolutes of right and wrong and black and white, ends up embracing Chloe’s amoral view of “everything is gray” by the end of the episode, justifying immoral behavior to benefit herself.  Another depiction of Christians as hypocrites by ABC.

Scattered throughout the episode are crude references to male genitalia and homosexual sex acts.

This is what the sponsors listed above empowered with the latest episode of “Don’t Trust the B—- in Apt. 23.”

Take Action! Click here to send a message to the advertisers supporting this crude show.

http://www.americandecency.org/archives/keep-the-pressure-on-sponsors-of-trash-tv/#more-6662

GCB Must be Opposed Now!

Two months ago ABC launched the TV series “GCB,” floating this trial balloon to see if America would tune in to a show centered on a bigoted portrayal of Christianity.  For 10 weeks, each episode has offered viewers a mocking, cartoonish depiction of Christians that is about as far from true Christianity as one can get.

Last night ABC aired the season finale of “GCB.”  This week the network will make a final decision on whether or not the show will be cancelled or renewed for another season.

Now is our last chance to send a strong message to advertisers letting them know we are outraged by their sponsorship of a show that openly ridicules the Christian faith and depicts its followers as spiteful hypocrites.

Take Action! Click here to send a message to the companies empowering such Christian bigotry.  Also, forward this to your family and friends urging them to stand with us!

 

The show has garnered mediocre ratings and numbers of advertisers have withdrawn their sponsorship.  The ratings for last night’s finale episode were down in the key demographic of 18-49 year olds.  Now ABC has to decide if the show’s mediocre ratings are enough of a reason to continue to push their agenda through a show that belittles the beliefs of millions.  ABC will announce on May 15 whether or not “GCB” will be in their fall lineup or if it will be dumped on the cancellation heap.

Kristin Chenoweth, one of the lead actresses from “GCB,” describes herself as a “nonjudgmental, liberal Christian” and describes the premise of “GCB,” saying, “It’s so wrong, it’s right.” And that “The show is funny, it’s silly.”

She goes on to claim:  “I would never do anything that would make fun of my God, my Christianity.”

Really???  Yet that is exactly what the show does!  Christianity is portrayed as a joke and Christians as buffoons.

Before the show even aired Robert Harling, the creator of “GCB,” claimed: “Church is sacred…we will never, ever be disrespectful.”

Now he sings a different tune, stating in a recent interview:  “We knew it would be controversial. We knew it would be provocative.”

 

Help us send a clear message to the advertisers and to ABC that “GCB” will not be supported.

 

Take Action! Click here to send a message to the companies empowering such Christian bigotry.  Also, forward this to your family and friends urging them to stand with us.

http://www.americandecency.org/archives/gcb-must-be-opposed-now/#more-6646

Red Lobster and Olive Garden support the B word

Recently we specifically targeted Darden Restaurants – Red Lobster and Olive Garden – because of their frequent sponsorship of shows such as “Don’t Trust the B—- in Apt. 23” and “GCB.”  After withdrawing for one week, Red Lobster was back on this week’s episode of “Don’t Trust the B—- in Apt. 23.”  Also returning was regular sponsor PepsiCo – this time advertising their Sierra Mist and Gatorade products.  Additional repeat offenders include Old Navy, Mazda, Honda, and AT&T.

 

These corporations need to hear from you!

Take Action! Click here to send a message to all the advertisers empowering this offensive show.

Remember not that many years ago when most men had a gentlemanly regard for women?  Men would be careful of their language around women, treat them with respect, and actually even refer to them as ladies.  A far cry from where we are today as a society.

Now we have the “B” word – which, of course, is a highly derogatory reference to women – becoming especially widely used on network television.  And not only within shows, but also in titles as ABC arrogantly does with the “B” word referenced in the title of “Don’t Trust the B—- in Apt. 23” and also in “GCB.”

As a writer for the LA Times opined:  “What does it mean that … the word “b–ch” is suddenly everyone’s go-to joke?” This same writer also stated:  “The vast majority of writers, directors and television executives — in other words, those writing and approving the use of the word — are still men.”

 

And while women may no longer be treated as ladies by network television, the female characters are also not acting like them.  This week’s episode of “Don’t Trust the B—- in Apt. 23” depicts the female lead characters going on drinking binges, using “un-lady-like” references to male genitalia, and making claims of having sex with 300 men.

The show’s creator, who is openly gay herself, stated:  “I think (gay women) would really like the women behaving badly thing — doing something at first that doesn’t seem great and certainly not typical.  Just doing something different and not just the stereotypical way things are seen.”

And the actress who plays the lead character, Chloe, describes the part this way:  “My character is so free.  She’s not defined by one sexuality at all so that’s a fun thing to play with. My character has no ties to anything. She doesn’t like to be categorized and she’s totally free and I think that comes out in many story-lines, not just about her sexuality. …”

 

While this actress may think its “so free” to throw out any standards of morality, shows such as “Don’t Trust the B—- in Apt. 23” that normalize not only the “B” word, but also the illicit behavior depicted, don’t empower women, but only degrade them – and the rest of our culture at the same time.

 

 

Take Action! Click here to send a message to all the advertisers empowering this offensive show.

http://www.americandecency.org/archives/red-lobster-and-olive-garden-support-the-b-word/#more-6642

GCB – Disinfecting or Denigrating?

By Lisa Van Houten

ABC’s “GCB” returned last night after being preempted last week.  “GCB” finished in last place in overall network ratings for its timeslot with 5.7 million viewers.

Take Action! Click here to send a message to the corporations that align with the mocking of Christianity on “GCB.”

 

Returning advertisers include:  Ace Hardware, Subway, Vaseline, Honda, Overstock.com, L’Oreal.  New advertisers include Applebee’s. All detergent, Bank of America, and Resolve Spray-N-Wash.

Sadly, even though the show came in last, “GCB” had its best ratings in five weeks.  Add up the number of Christians in America and 5.7 million should seem like a paltry number in comparison.

So why is a show that ridicules the Christian faith still on the air?  Why wasn’t the show immediately yanked in response to a loud chorus of protest from American Christians?

 

Perhaps because there hasn’t been one.  More like a whisper of protest.  I know many of you our readers have spoken up and expressed outrage regarding this show that is the most blatant example of Christian bigotry to ever air on network TV.  And so while I may very well be speaking to the choir, the lack of response from the overall Christian community is a vivid example of the lethargy of the Church in America.

Perhaps too many of those 5.7 million viewers are made up of church-goers.  I’ve followed blogs about “GCB” and have seen countless comments such as “I’m a Christian and I love this show!”

 

Or maybe today’s Christians are so accommodated to our decadent culture because they spend too much time playing the Hokey-Pokey with the world – except they put their foot in the world and keep it there.

Actress Annie Potts who plays one of the characters on “GCB” claimed that the show is actually “disinfecting” Christianity.  She stated:  “I’m getting a lot of letters and tweets and things from people who are Christian people who are happy to see the hypocrites called out.  I think all true believers love to have hypocrisy routed out. I mean it’s – what do they say – sunshine is the best disinfectant? Put it out there. Call it what it is. You know, satire is always helpful for society.”

 

The only thing is, as one commentator stated:  “The problem with this show’s portrayal of Christians is that it is not intended for Christians to poke fun at ourselves or to hold us accountable for our too-often worldly behavior.  The problem is the show is viewed by a non-Christian audience as an accurate portrayal of Christians’ hypocrisy.  At the very least, you must agree that it falsely presents the message of our faith.  For the world that is in desperate need of the Savior, that’s not entertaining it’s just sad.”

And that is the concern regarding “GCB.”  The point of the show is not to light-heartedly point out the speck in the eye of some who call themselves Christians, but to paint all of Christianity with the same speckled brush – leaving viewers with the false impression that this offensive portrayal of Christianity is a true picture of our faith.

As the saying goes, ‘we may be stupid, but we’re not dumb.’  Annie Potts may be trying to sell “GCB” as “sunshine” and “helpful” for society, but the kind of help and light that society truly needs comes only from the Son.

Take Action! Click here to send a message to the corporations that align with the mocking of Christianity.

http://www.americandecency.org/archives/gcb-%e2%80%93-disinfecting-or-denigrating/#more-6625

Do not Trust the “B” in ABC

Last night ABC aired the third episode of the offensively-titled show “Don’t Trust the B—- in Apt. 23.”It continues to amaze me that feminists aren’t up in arms over such a highly demeaning and derogatory term used to describe women – both with this show’s title and also ABC’s “GCB.”

Last week we targeted Darden Restaurants (Olive Garden and Red Lobster) which has advertised on both of these shows.  Last night, Darden Restaurants did not sponsor “Don’t Trust the B— in Apt. 23.” However, 6 of the 13 national advertisers were repeat sponsors.  They include: PepsiCo (Doritos, Tropicana), Nokia, Allegra, Intel, and movie companies Warner Brothers and Paramount Studios.

 

Take Action! Click here to contact these and the other sponsors empowering this raunchy show.  New advertisers include:  Payless Shoes, Old Navy, and Outback Steakhouse.

 

After hearing from many of you through our “take action” links, our records indicate that in the first three episodes, 22 of the 38 national sponsors have only advertised one time – that comes out to 58% of advertisers did not return to sponsor “Don’t Trust the B—– in Apt. 23” after hearing from you!

Nahnatchka Khan, the show’s creator, stated in a recent interview that she first pitched the show to television executives a few years ago and was soundly rejected.  In her pitch to the network, she described the following segment which ended up becoming the opening scene of the premiere episode.

In the opening minute of the first episode, Chloe, the titled “B” of the show, is engaged in a sex act with her new roommate’s fiancé – on top of her roommate’s birthday cake.

When they initially pitched this idea to network executives,  Khan, and fellow creator David Hemingson, said:  I remember sitting across from the executives who were looking at us slack-jawed and stunned. They were like, “This is a network comedy?  What are you talking about?  You’re crazy!” They had that look of, “You’re aware this is a network, right?,” on their faces.

Now just a few years later ABC is proudly pushing a show that just a few short years ago was deemed too shocking for network TV – even by Hollywood’s standards.

What changed?  (Other than the proverbial frog in the cultural kettle getting increasingly hotter.) As Khan explained, “Paul Lee took over ABC and he was interested in bold, different and daring … and the whole development team over there was really behind it, and Paul Lee loved it …”

However, what ABC’s Paul Lee considers “bold” and “daring,” millions of Americans consider base and degrading.  If we stay silent and allow such filth to become the norm, what will another three years bring to network TV?

Take Action! Click here to contact the sponsors empowering this raunchy show.

http://www.americandecency.org/archives/do-not-trust-the-%e2%80%9cb%e2%80%9d-in-abc/#more-6622

Family beats filth

ABC’s Christian-bashing “GCB” did not air Sunday night.  Scheduled instead was a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie on ABC.  Hallmark Hall of Fame movies have a long reputation of being family-oriented, inspirational, and uplifting – everything “GCB” is not.

With the second hour of the Hallmark movie airing in the regular timeslot (10 pm EST) for “GCB,” how did the ratings compare between ABC’s regular showing of “GCB” and ABC’s Hallmark special airing in place of “GCB”?  Two weeks ago (April 15) ABC’s “GCB” scored poor ratings and came in last among the three major networks during its timeslot.  Last night, ABC came in first place with the airing of the Hallmark movie, instead of “GCB.”

Shouldn’t that send a message to ABC?  Heart-warming, inspirational movies are much more of a draw than salacious shows that make a mockery of the Christian faith.  “GCB” was at the bottom of the ratings heap the week before with 4.4 million viewers, but the Hallmark movie drew well over three million more viewers (7.8 million) winning the timeslot for ABC in the ratings war and making the Hallmark movie the most watched program for that hour.

 

Not only did ABC win in overall ratings with the inspirational Hallmark movie, they also won in the coveted key demographic rating of 18-49 year old viewers and also drew the most women viewers – also a closely watched and desired demographic.

As one ratings report indicated:  “Firelight” Emerges as ABC’s Top “Hallmark Hall of Fame” Movie and Draws the Network’s Biggest Audience in the Time Period in 5 Weeks.

 

What aired in that time period the previous five weeks?   “GCB.”

 

Will ABC take notice of what viewers obviously want?  Sadly, I highly doubt it.  Instead they seem bent on continuing to push their agenda which includes undermining faith, family, and morality.

But when it comes down to it, a show has to sell to remain on the air.  With falling ratings and advertisers pulling their ads from the controversial “GCB,” ABC may be hard pressed to justify renewing the show.

That is why we must keep up the pressure on those advertisers who continue to empower “GCB!”

Below is a link to contact the “hardcore” advertisers – those who have sponsored “GCB” repeatedly in recent weeks.  Let’s remind these corporations that if they desire to draw viewers to their ads and their products, television shows that encourage rather degrade and belittle are what will draw customers.

Take Action! Click here to send a message to the “repeat offenders” sponsoring “GCB.”

http://www.americandecency.org/archives/family-beats-filth/#more-6604

Keep the pressure on the sponsors of GCB!

“GCB” continues to degrade Christ and His followers.  It’s vital that we send a message now to ABC and corporate America that millions of people of faith will not support companies that openly ridicule their beliefs.  “GCB” is currently under consideration for renewal for next season.  Now is the time to show advertisers that this is a show they should not empower!

 

Join together with thousands of others who are expressing outrage about this offensive depiction of Christianity.  Also, forward this to your family and friends, encouraging them to stand with us.

 

Last night’s sponsors include:  Subway, Chili’s, Red Lobster, L’Oreal, Ford, Hotwire, and AT&T.

 

Take Action! Click here to let the sponsors of “GCB” hear from you!

 

 

And that message seems to be getting through to corporate America.  In the first seven episodes of “GCB,” 154 companies have advertised on the show.  Of those 154 advertisers, 112 advertised only one time.  That’s a 73% withdrawal rate!

 

After their ad appeared on “GCB” those 154 advertisers would have heard from many of you through our “take action” links.  After receiving those emails from you and others offended by their sponsorship of Christian bigotry, 112 advertisers – 73% – did not return to advertise again.

In addition, the TV network ratings for last night’s episode of “GCB” were down to their lowest yet – coming in last place for its timeslot against the other major networks.  “GCB” viewership was down 21% from the previous week’s episode.

If these trends continue, the network will be hard pressed to justify the renewal of “GCB” – no matter how much they would like to.  That is why it is so important to keep up the pressure upon the advertisers!

And now Bravo TV, the producers of the tawdry reality show “Real Housewives” is seeking real-life Christian women to star in a spin-off reality TV show depicting “real” Christian Housewives based on the fictional “GCB.”

TMZ reports:  “The people behind the “Real Housewives” franchise are poking around in Calabasas, CA … searching for Christian women to star in a new reality show inspired by “GCB” … “

Producers are seeking “accomplished and upscale women in the Calabasas area who have fabulous lives, are very social, are involved in the community, but also have a very deep commitment to their faith.”

I can imagine what type of derogatory spin would be put on the portrayal of these real Christian women if “GCB” was the inspiration.

This is just another reason to send a message to Hollywood that such offensive and bigoted portrayals of the Christian faith are not profitable and will not “sell” to millions of American viewers and consumers.

Christian Post seemed to concur, commenting:  “Like ‘GCB,’ Bravo could receive a critical response to the new reality TV show after a number of critics including New York City Councilman, Peter Vallone, called on ‘people of all faiths’ to boycott ABC’s show, which was originally called “Good Christian B——.”

 

‘GCB,’ which is produced by famed ‘Sex and the City’ executive producer Darren Star, follows the lives of Christian women who carelessly live in sin and constantly find themselves caught up in salacious gossip and lies, which critics like Vallone say mock Christianity.”

 

Take Action! Click here to let the sponsors of “GCB” hear from you!

http://www.americandecency.org/archives/keep-the-pressure-on-the-sponsors-of-gcb/#more-6583

The “B” in ABC

Silly me.  All these years, I’ve been under the impression that the “B” in ABC stood for “Broadcasting.”  You know, “American Broadcasting Company.”  It sounds quite venerable and dignified, doesn’t it?  Well, it seems as if ABC has a different “B” word on their minds (and in their shows) lately – and there’s nothing venerable about it.  Vulgar would be a more appropriate adjective.

Yes, ABC has added another show to their lineup referencing the word “b—ch” in the title.  First, ABC trotted out the show “GCB,” which, as you mostly likely know by now, stands for “Good Christian B–ches.”  Now a new sitcom premiered last night on ABC entitled “Don’t Trust the B—- in Apt. 23.”

 

Express your concern to the advertisers of this show who are empowering the increasing obscenity-filled lewdness on network television.

 

Click here to send a message to the sponsors of “Don’t Trust the B—- in Apt. 23.”

 

The Left indignantly accuses conservatives of engaging in a “War on Women.”  Yet where is their indignation when one of their own, the liberal entertainment industry, uses the public airwaves to denigrate women?

Yet the offensive content of the show doesn’t stop at the title.  In the opening minute of the premiere episode, Chloe, the titled “B” of the show, is engaged in an explicitly vulgar sex act with her new roommate’s fiancé.   This is followed by Chloe walking around the apartment completely naked.  And, pushing the envelope yet again, the nudity is not just implied or “hidden” by furniture or some other object as is often done on TV these days.  Instead, ABC merely pixilated the nudity leaving very little to the imagination.

Other crudities packed into this 30 minute sitcom include an implied group sex scene where Chloe asks June (Chloe’s roommate) to join her and two guys on the couch for a “four-way.”  Masturbation is engaged in or discussed multiple times.  In one repulsive scene, a neighbor is obviously masturbating as he carries on a conversation with June.  Chloe gives alcohol to a 13 year old, getting him drunk, and she also is involved in selling drugs.

It all adds up to what now passes for humor and entertainment.

And while the word “b—ch” may not be explicitly stated in the title, it is certainly used very frequently within the show.  Just five years ago that obscenity would have been rarely heard on network television. Now, as we’ve sat back and watched it happen, such language is becoming regular fare.

As one commentator stated:  “People are raised mimicking media — TV is the other parent — and kids are growing up without common decency and respect for each other.   They’re fed that women are second-class citizens; women are bitches …”

 

And Erin M. Fuller, president of the Alliance for Women in Media, stated:  “Obviously, they’re using it to be polarizing and controversial and attention-getting. Why else would you use that word?  I don’t think … that word is a celebration of women.”

Yet, as indicative of how far we’ve fallen, this new show has garnered little criticism, but loads of acclaim for its “edginess” and “humor.”

We need to let our voices be heard!  Express your concern to the advertisers of this show who are empowering the increasing obscenity-filled lewdness on network television.

 

Advertisers include:  Discover Card, Jergens, Domino’s Pizza, Volkswagen, Turbo Tax, AT&T, and Nokia.

 

Click here to send a message to the sponsors of “Don’t Trust the B—- in Apt. 23.”

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