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elfsDiane Gramley of the American Family Foundation went to Pittsburgh Comicon. No reason is given for the trip, but it's clear from her report that she's not a fan. And she's never been to a convention before, with it's $17US per day, per person (emphasis hers) price tag bowling her over. Apparently she forgot that conventions require convention centers, and convention centers cost money.
She's successively shocked by the fact that the dealer's room contains pornographic materials, as well as "fantasy, horror, witchcraft, Satanism, and spiritualism intermixed with 'legitimate' comic book characters." Why, thank you, Ms. Gramley, for telling us that comic books characters are only legitimate as long as they're wearing tights and beating up bad guys in the name of Mom and apple pie.
She's horrified that the Make-A-Wish foundation derives financial benefit from the ComicCon, and from a Las-Vegas style "gambling" game where the house inevitably won almost everything, and that they allowed beer (gasp!) on the premises. She notes with disdain that there's no one taking IDs at the midnight anime movies, allowing "under 17s" in. Ms. Gramley firmly wishes comics were still for kids and disputes, without evidence, the fact that the primary market for comics is young men between the ages of 16 and 30.
The AFA is calling for a letter-writing campaign to Make-A-Wish, asking them to stop taking money from and lending their moral weight behind something so obviously sinful as comic books. Ms. Gramley concludes her first day's report with the snide, oh-so-knowing "There is obviously a seeking out there, but even more obvious is that many are seeking in the wrong places."
She's successively shocked by the fact that the dealer's room contains pornographic materials, as well as "fantasy, horror, witchcraft, Satanism, and spiritualism intermixed with 'legitimate' comic book characters." Why, thank you, Ms. Gramley, for telling us that comic books characters are only legitimate as long as they're wearing tights and beating up bad guys in the name of Mom and apple pie.
She's horrified that the Make-A-Wish foundation derives financial benefit from the ComicCon, and from a Las-Vegas style "gambling" game where the house inevitably won almost everything, and that they allowed beer (gasp!) on the premises. She notes with disdain that there's no one taking IDs at the midnight anime movies, allowing "under 17s" in. Ms. Gramley firmly wishes comics were still for kids and disputes, without evidence, the fact that the primary market for comics is young men between the ages of 16 and 30.
The AFA is calling for a letter-writing campaign to Make-A-Wish, asking them to stop taking money from and lending their moral weight behind something so obviously sinful as comic books. Ms. Gramley concludes her first day's report with the snide, oh-so-knowing "There is obviously a seeking out there, but even more obvious is that many are seeking in the wrong places."
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Date: 2003-05-16 09:57 am (UTC)*sigh*
What is it with people who want the entirety of life reduced to something that's safe for a three-year-old?
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Date: 2003-05-16 10:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-05-16 10:38 am (UTC)This is the American Family Association. Supposedly, they support strong families--you know, things like giving parents more power over and responsibility for their children's behavior. Didn't it occur to her that this means the parents of "under-17s" should be the ones making sure their kids aren't going to see midnight anime, if they think doing so is a problem?
Sheesh. Some people.
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Date: 2003-05-16 10:52 am (UTC)It's come to the point where any group calling itself the Something Family Something (or Something Citizens Something, or godshelpsus Something Patriots Something) is suspect, from my admittedly biased point of view.
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Date: 2003-05-16 11:13 am (UTC)A web site that covers the AFA among others
Date: 2003-05-16 11:36 am (UTC)A friend of mine has run a weblog/news/commentary site for the last couple of years that watches over the funny-mentalist Xtian Right, among other things. It's called Morons.org, and he's been on top of a number of news stories before the mass media caught them.
You would probably make an excellent addition to their pool of writers, too.
-Erik
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Date: 2003-05-16 12:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-05-16 05:09 pm (UTC)About twenty years ago I found Archie comics at the local Christian Bookstore - Evangel on Aurora & 155th. Betty and Archie were explaining Christianity to the school board & other students....
Also, comic-book adaptations of The Cross and The Switchblade, The Hiding Place and Hansi: The Girl Who Loved The Swastika. The prisoner gang-rape in the latter was handled in classic TV fashion: voices crying out in the dark, and a friend remarking later "You're lucky, Hansi, you're so skinny they don't want you". Wonder if the AFA's seen that....
that woman needs help
Date: 2003-05-17 09:27 pm (UTC)also please the woman acts like playboy is the plage causing instant brain rott show me the pubesent teen with out a porno mag and ill show you a disturbed individual
me i personaly saw my first nude woman when i was 7 a friend of mine stole his dads Hustler and that was my and my friends introduction into the beuty of woman if that contact helped me become an open minded individual
this woman also reminds me of those parents who freaked out when the school i went to 10yr ago had a sex education class
man people freaked and for those of us in that class now think back and just laugh at how rediculas is was
16 weeks of you shouldnt have sex and if you realy want to dont and dont masterbate thats bad most of my frends thought they teach must have never been laid to think such things ----
well sory for going off on a tangent
and the reson im anon is i dont have an lj accnt:)