Barack Obama. Eckhart Tolle. Dr. Phil. With the Midas touch, Oprah Winfrey turned these men to gold. Her recommendations have rocketed a variety of books – from centuries-old literary classics to New Age drivel – onto the bestseller lists. Now, in the latest issue of “O” magazine, she’s trying her hand at mainstreaming lesbianism.
The issue of homosexuality and the homosexual lifestyle is still a subject fraught with controversy and strong opinions on both sides. But with help from a lengthy, one-sided narrative about the wonderful world of lesbian love, the unparalleled power of Oprah Winfrey will surely bring the debate to a satisfactory conclusion.
“Why Women are Leaving Men for Other Women,” by Mary A Fischer in the April issue of “O” unambiguously promotes an attractive lesbian lifestyle. Fischer glowingly profiled three gay couples, along with glamorous television stars, and cited research to back up her claim that many women are leaving men for lesbian lovers. She posited that the lesbian lifestyle is good for women’s sexual and emotional health, children, and families. Without a single dissenting voice, the article is nothing short of lesbian propaganda.
“On a warm spring night in Malibu, after attending a film screening together, Gomez-Barris and Halberstam walked on the beach, a beautiful pink sunset rounding out a perfect evening,” Fischer wrote. “They kicked off their shoes and ran, laughing, through the rising tide.” Wow, lesbianism is just super fabulous! It must be, since celebrities are doing it.
“Lately, a new kind of sisterly love seems to be in the air. In the past few years, Sex and the City's Cynthia Nixon left a boyfriend after a decade and a half and started dating a woman (and talked openly about it). Actress Lindsay Lohan and DJ Samantha Ronson flaunted their relationship from New York to Dubai. Katy Perry's song "I Kissed a Girl" topped the charts. The L Word, Work Out, and Top Chef are featuring gay women on TV, and there's even talk of a lesbian reality show in the works. Certainly nothing is new about women having sex with women, but we've arrived at a moment in the popular culture when it all suddenly seems almost fashionable—or at least, acceptable.”
And as if the preceding paragraph doesn’t get readers, Fischer invokes the emotional appeal through children and politics. “Last fall, [DeClue’s] 8-year-old daughter felt the backlash over Proposition 8, the measure that bans gay marriage in California. ‘Some kids said they were yes on Prop 8, and Miles took this very personally,’ says DeClue. ‘She was hurt they would think her mom shouldn't be able to marry the person she loves because of being the same sex. Even in L.A. and in very inclusive schools, homophobia comes out.’ DeClue deals with such negative reactions by bringing up the subject with her daughter, and for the most part believes that Miles and her peers are more open to differences than any generation before. ‘I think the world will be in good hands when it's their turn to govern,’ DeClue says confidently.”
This is pure social liberal propaganda – skepticism of gay marriage = homophobia. “Openness” is the highest virtue, and everyone has a right not to have her feelings hurt.
Lesbian love is not the first controversial lifestyle to be promoted by “the most powerful woman in the world.” Remember her exclusive May 2008 interview with Thomas Beatie, the “pregnant man.” Beatie, a pregnant transgendered woman, received world-wide attention after his interview with Oprah. It would be no surprise if an interest in female homosexual relationships spiked due to the attention given it by Queen Midas herself.
But Oprah the alchemist is only as good as her raw material, and in that her judgment is far from flawless. In 2005, Oprah promoted James Frey’s book A Million Little Pieces and it turned out that this “non-fiction” New York Times Bestseller (thanks to Oprah’s promotion) was full of fabrications. Similarly, a riveting holocaust memoir that she promoted as “the single greatest love story… we’ve ever told on air,” turned out to be fake.
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Indocrination
March 24, 2009 - 10:51 ET by iveseenitallThe Oprah, Suzi, et.al indoctrination machine cranks on. Ignorance is the bliss that fills the wallets of charlatans. But read history; one way or another all of this will come to an end some day. Unfortunately, much suffering will occur first.
NEVER, NEVER trust a "liberal"
many women are leaving men
March 24, 2009 - 10:37 ET by motherbeltmany women are leaving men for lesbian lovers.
Many? How many? Could we have some numbers, please? Show us the increase in lesbian relationships decrease in heterosexual (involving women at least.
I only scanned the article but this caughy my eye. (emphasis mine):
In a 2004 landmark study at Northwestern University, the results were
eye-opening. During the experiment, the female subjects became sexually
aroused when they viewed heterosexual as well as lesbian erotic films.
This was true for both gay and straight women. Among the male subjects,
however, the straight men were turned on only by erotic films with
women, the gay ones by those with men. "We found that women's sexual
desire is less rigidly directed toward a particular sex, as compared
with men's, and it's more changeable over time," says the study's
senior researcher, J. Michael Bailey, PhD.
So much for the "born that way" theory!
Does this not imply that, at least for women, homosexuality is an issue of "choice" rather than genetics?
You are right, Erin, this is a masterpiece of lesbian propaganda.
Women should "choose" lesbian relationships because they are better for the women, children, families, and society at large.
What is the lesbian version of a "matriarchal" society?
Whatever it is, that's what they are pushing.
I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson
These people
March 24, 2009 - 10:42 ET by cvgbuckeyeThese people are ALL nuts. We know it, the whole world knows it and if they would be honest about it they know it to AND I don't even want to hear any more about these freaks, deviants and pieces of trash.
America
March 24, 2009 - 11:29 ET by iveseenitallThis is just another example of a nation out of control."Liberals" on this site and elsewhere have mocked the thought that these people are anti-God, anti-family, anti-country. Yet blogs like this prove this to be true. But as thousands show up at Tea Parties, at conservative book signings, etc., the backlash is taking shape. We are a free and good people being attacked from within. Don't be afraid of being poltically incorrect. State your opinions wherever you are. Fight back, or live to regret that you didn't.
NEVER, NEVER trust a "liberal"
"We are a free and good
March 24, 2009 - 12:00 ET by dborschjr68"We are a free and good people being attacked from within. Don't be
afraid of being poltically incorrect. State your opinions wherever you
are. Fight back, or live to regret that you didn't."
Amen, iveseenitall, amen. Now someone fetch me a musket and a triangular hat, we're going to Washington!
(Oh, that's right...talk like that means I am a militiaman who hates America and has misinterpreted the US Constitution, and I want to overthrow the government and establish some kind of fascist state, free of liberals, Socialists, queers, and minorities.)
Silly me, what was I thinking?
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Anti-God
March 25, 2009 - 12:36 ET by misterbee241They are anti-God because God condemns homosexual behavior. Homosexuality like any other sin, is rebellion against God.
"I dont need to read a newspaper to know the world's been shaved by a drunken barber."
Walter Brennan, The Colonel, Meet John Doe, 1941
You know what motherbelt
March 24, 2009 - 11:32 ET by DelsaThis is such hogwash!
This is the wish of the gay agenda.
The rest of this is BS and I am sooo tired of being told men having sex with men and women having sex with women is "normal".
This makes me sick and I guess Oprah would make all their wishes come true if she approves?
Yeah, lesbian relationships
March 24, 2009 - 11:47 ET by SickofLibsYeah, lesbian relationships are better for families.
Who knew lesbians could reproduce all by themselves.
vive la différence
March 24, 2009 - 12:05 ET by mom_roxRegarding the Northwestern study that mb quoted: I'm not surprised. It supports the notion that the female body is more aesthetically pleasing than the male body. Isn't that one of the reasons why there are more women than men on magazine covers?
Edmund Cooper
March 25, 2009 - 08:08 ET by jmtEdmund Cooper wrote about that Matriarchal Society in his book 5 to 12 back in 1968.
jmt
http://www.jmichaelt.org
Does the left just hate
March 24, 2009 - 11:15 ET by MrSnugglesDoes the left just hate fathers or something?
Pretty much. I sometimes
March 24, 2009 - 11:18 ET by motherbeltPretty much.
I sometimes wonder what all these lesbian woman who are raising boys (and some of them are), tell these boys about what the heck their role in society is!!
I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson
You know these boys and
March 24, 2009 - 11:43 ET by SeashellYou know these boys and girls grow up just plain "screwed up". I can't see any way around that.
good question.
March 24, 2009 - 11:54 ET by mizflame98I saw this deal about Cat_Cora and her wife are both having babies (they're carrying each other's egg). They have 2 older boys together. I can't say for certain what the ramifications of having lesbian or gay parents do to children. I've yet to see any sort of study that isn't politically motivated that explains the mental state of the children.
"Not to be a republican at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head." - Francois Guisot
Oh, crap! You had to ruin
March 24, 2009 - 11:59 ET by motherbeltOh, crap!
You had to ruin Cat Cora for me!
I really liked her on Iron Chef!!
Blech!
I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson
Believe me
March 24, 2009 - 12:02 ET by mizflame98...it came as a shock to me too.
"Not to be a republican at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head." - Francois Guisot
meh.
March 24, 2009 - 12:12 ET by katainkentthere are some things I just don't need to know. This was one of them.
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Obama does not perform as advertised. I'd like a refund.
Taxed Enough Already.
Cora is a salmon... "Gimme some of that milt"
March 24, 2009 - 12:41 ET by SickofLibsOK, that was pretty sick, but they exchanged each other's EGGS and used the same anonymous sperm donor!!!??
What are they, freakin' salmon?
SickofLibs..
March 24, 2009 - 14:09 ET by dborschjr68I think I split my spleen laughing at your post...
I pictured these two women exchanging eggs...like some kind of freaked-out pagan Easter celebration...
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Lol
March 24, 2009 - 16:05 ET by SickofLibsVows:
Bride 1: "I transplanteth to you, my beloved, my egg."
Bride 2: "And I accepteth, and transplanteth to you my egg in return."
Eggmaster: "You may now fertilize your eggs."
It sounds, I don't know, somehow illegal.
I just hope neither of them had a massive egg cluster like Octo.
Swapping eggs.
March 24, 2009 - 16:45 ET by RukusActually, I figured they just kissed. : o
Gary
"Things can only bother you if you let them bother you" -My Dad
Salmon
March 24, 2009 - 16:49 ET by sherylsimsThey are just making it that much more complicated for the judges to sort out when they break up and have to decide who gets what kid. It is pathetic and sad.
LMAO!
March 24, 2009 - 18:35 ET by mizflame98They spawned. I wonder if they swam upstream first?
"Not to be a republican at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head." - Francois Guisot
Does the left just hate fathers?
March 24, 2009 - 11:29 ET by moderncommentaries83Yeah, pretty much.
Aut viam inveniam aut faciam
Yes. And we suck at board
March 24, 2009 - 11:54 ET by SickofLibsYes.
And we suck at board games, as you will see in any kiddie TV commercial... the Dad is always the big dumb loser.
Does the left just hate fathers or something? Mr. Snuggles...
March 24, 2009 - 12:07 ET by dborschjr68Yes! Yes, they do.
Fatherhood has been under attack for years by the liberals, thanks in part to the myth that to be a man you must impregnate as many women as possible, yet claim no responsibility for them. Can you say, "Rap Culture", anyone?
Have you ever watched the Lifetime Channel? I like to call it the, "We Hate Penises Network", as every man they portray is either an abuser, a rogue father (sperm donor), or an adulterer.
The media hates the fact that there are men who act like men and protect their families and read stories to their daughters at bedtime. The libs hate it that out of all the names that God could have chosen for Himself, He chose to be known as "Father".
Just an observation, not a sermon...
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ahahah
March 24, 2009 - 12:11 ET by katainkentwe call Lifetime the female victim network :) I think it started with an Ashley Judd movie.
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Obama does not perform as advertised. I'd like a refund.
Taxed Enough Already.
So many wows...
March 25, 2009 - 10:51 ET by jquamDon't just narrow it to "rap culture," you can't forget redneck and hillbilly culture (read "trailer trash culture"...and remember, you don't have to live in a trailer to be considered a part of it...it's a set of values). "God" chose to be called the "Father" or did that just fit the patriarchal society that existed at the time when men were writing the bible.
Think Well.
Tell you what..
March 25, 2009 - 12:40 ET by misterbee241Tell you what guys, if you really, really want to know what kind of knuckle-dragging, Neanderthal SOBs we are, just watch Lifetime or WE channels. they'll fill you in real fast.
"I dont need to read a newspaper to know the world's been shaved by a drunken barber."
Walter Brennan, The Colonel, Meet John Doe, 1941
This sounds like Oprah
March 24, 2009 - 11:21 ET by MazziThis sounds like Oprah might be sticking her big toe in the closet door. For years there have been insinuations that she and her CloserThanThis "friend" Gayle King, might be even closer than anyone suspected, and that her metrosexual arm-candy hubby might lean a bit closer to the homo-side of -sexuality. (Not that there's anything wrong with it, lol.)
I don't care what goes on in people's bedrooms or who they choose to love, but I despise hypocrisy with a passion. Methinks that Ms. O doth protest too much, rather than just taking her own advice and flinging open that closet door.
Of course, that could hurt her billion-dollar empire, so we'll be having none of that.
"I would rather be historically accurate than politically correct" ~ My husband's T-Shirt
Wow. Heterophobia at its
March 24, 2009 - 11:24 ET by TexasteacherWow. Heterophobia at its greatest. Just when I thought my opinion of oprah couldn't get any worse...
"...all suddenly seems almost fashionable—or at least, acceptable"
It'll never be acceptable. Certain choices people make will never be acceptable. They just need to accept that.
"Remember her exclusive May 2008 interview with Thomas Beatie, the “pregnant man."
There's only one problem with that statement...that "person" is not a man. Male humans cannot get pregnant. Simple as that. A mutilated version of a female calling itself a male doesn't count.
obama's notion of bi-partisanship is telling conservatives to shut up and do what he wants.
I do think O and Gayle King is
March 24, 2009 - 11:24 ET by Delsareal relationship.
Steadman was arm candy. A shill needed to protect the TRUTH and HER SECRET!
Ignore her
March 24, 2009 - 11:40 ET by iveseenitallMuch too many people pay much too much attention to the ignorant bitch. Ignoring her and her ilk is one way of fighting back. Turn off the t.v. Don't ever buy her rag of a "magazine" in the store. Turn to enjoying your family. Talk to your kids.
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"
I completely agree with
March 24, 2009 - 11:51 ET by MazziI completely agree with you. I don't watch her and I don't buy her trash, or anything that she recommends (easy enough, since it's all tripe anyway.) In fact if I happen to see her name on a book, I instantly know to avoid it, lol.
I only happen to know of her life issues because I knew her personally when she was an anchor at a TV station in Baltimore - so I was kind of been interested in watching her meteoric rise. I didn't know her well, since I was just a teenager back then, but she seemed nice enough. Now I just see a power-hungry, greedy, easily manipulated hypocrite.
"I would rather be historically accurate than politically correct" ~ My husband's T-Shirt
Iveseenitall
March 24, 2009 - 17:07 ET by Kat Outta the Bag"Much too many people pay much too much attention to the ignorant bitch. Ignoring her and her ilk is one way of fighting back. Turn off the t.v. Don't ever buy her rag of a "magazine" in the store."
I'm waaaay ahead of you on that one. I haven't watched her show since the early '90s and have never picked up her magazine even to just flip through it. The day she told a member of her audience on her show, "Don't talk to me about God!" is the day I decided I'd had enough of her and her ego.
Save me...save me from tomorrow. I don't want to sail with this ship of fools.
~World Party
I have always wondered what
March 24, 2009 - 11:39 ET by SeashellI have always wondered what the deal is with relationship between Oprah and Steadman. She lives with him yet she claims to be a Christain.
Now she is promoting "lesbian love".
Oprah believes her own press that she is the most powerful woman in the world. The all powerful it seems always fall. In time, she will fall as well.
A lot of people believe
March 24, 2009 - 11:55 ET by MazziA lot of people believe that they were married in the late 1980's. I don't know if it's true or not, but I imagine that he would not stay in such a situation without covering his own financial bases.
"I would rather be historically accurate than politically correct" ~ My husband's T-Shirt
By now, anyone with an
March 24, 2009 - 11:58 ET by moderncommentaries83By now, anyone with an ounce of intelligence should know when liberals talk about "Christianity" it dosen't mean the full truth of Christian revelation, but rather some watered-down, fell-good, politically correct "spirituality" that cherry picks which teachings they will and will not follow.
Coupled with, of course, specious arguments about Christ and His teachings, selective, out-of-context proof texting from Scripture, and open hostility toward orthodoxy.
Aut viam inveniam aut faciam
To your point, my sister (a
March 24, 2009 - 12:36 ET by SeashellTo your point, my sister (a liberal) believes that when scriptures were written that they didn't understand that homosexuality was a product of nature. Therefore, God wouldn't punish homosexuals to hell.
my sister (a liberal)
March 24, 2009 - 16:22 ET by motherbeltmy sister (a liberal) believes that when scriptures were written that
they didn't understand that homosexuality was a product of nature.
Well then, show her this "O" article that says women can choose to go back and forth. See if she says it's one thing for men and another for women.
PS you might also ask her if she believes Scripture is God's word. If she does, is she saying God didn't understand then, but is learning now from modern science?
I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson
MB
March 24, 2009 - 19:10 ET by SeashellIf she does, is she saying God didn't understand then, but is learning now from modern science?
Unfortunately, that is exactly what she thinks.
God's word...
March 25, 2009 - 10:41 ET by jquamGod's word, WRITTEN BY MAN. Think Well.
delete double
March 24, 2009 - 16:19 ET by motherbeltdelete double
Idolatry
March 24, 2009 - 12:51 ET by cvgbuckeyemoderncommentaries83:
Idolatry is the sin most mentioned in the Bible.This "Selective Christianity" that you accurately describe is the most common form of idolatry in our modern world.
It is the process of people creating, for themselves, a god that they find easier to live with, one that they find easier to obey and follow; a god that they are more comfortable with; a god who conforms more to their lifestyles.
I fear that they will discover that their god exists only for their own convenience.
What is the difference between these gods and the golden calves fashioned by the Israelites while Noah was on the mountain recieving "The Law"?
whatever
March 24, 2009 - 11:37 ET by katainkentWhen Oprah started her show I didn't have much respect for her. Her shows were all about confrontation and pop psych crap. Then she veered more toward less whiney/victimy mindset for awhile I started to almost like her.... Now I have no respect for her again. If she's going to try and steamroll a path of 'mainstream acceptability' so she herself can come out as gay, it says to me she has no guts. If that is really who you are, that should be enough.
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Obama does not perform as advertised. I'd like a refund.
Taxed Enough Already.
Oprah is a lesbian
March 24, 2009 - 11:39 ET by geminicontenderisn't she? Her partner Gayle.....and side-kick distraction....I forget his name Stedman?
No more beach walks
March 24, 2009 - 11:44 ET by geminicontenderfor me and my lady friend. I have just read that it is not acceptable in Hollywood. No more sunsets, kicking off our shoes. Now only lesbians can have that satisfaction. Women leaving men for other women? Let them go...they're obviously screwed up.
A minor point, but could we
March 24, 2009 - 11:48 ET by SickofLibsA minor point, but could we replace that photo with the real-life Fatass Oprah?
O's master plan
March 24, 2009 - 12:00 ET by My turnStep 1. Gain popular support for unacceptable behavior by making said behavior seem acceptable and "normal".
Step 2. Once public opinion changes, leap out of closet holding Gayle's hand shouting, "free at last, free at last, thank Obama-o-mighty, free at last."
Step 3. Write another autobiography and rack in mountains of cash.
Step 4. Laugh all the way to bank at how profitable white-liberal guilt can be.
You Don't Suppose...
March 24, 2009 - 12:08 ET by Greg ToombsYou don't suppose...
You don't think....
Naaah. No way.
Way!
Yeah. I'm afraid so.
Lesbianism Better for
March 24, 2009 - 12:23 ET by dscottLesbianism Better for Women??? Hmmm, so the idea of half of all Domestic Violence committed against women is done by women is better overall for women? In what universe? Given that only 4% of DV is committed against married women means that they should immediately divorce their male partner and find a butch to beat them into submission??? Are you plain stupid?
Given that a majority of child abuse is committed by women, especially single mothers, dumping their male partner is good for children? Talk about a lack of critical thinking skills. Sorry if anyone is so ignorant to fall for this propaganda they deserve to be led down the garden path.
Liberalism is a dysfunctional mental disorder. Believing in the utopian dream in defiance of reality is just delusionally insane.
Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, starving the poor one gallon of ethanol at a time. Fill your tank with E85 and cull a village.
Oprah has a magazine?
March 24, 2009 - 12:25 ET by R D HelmWho knew?
-Dave
This coup has gone on long enough. The time to put it down is NOW.
X
March 24, 2009 - 12:39 ET by serfer62Look at the bright side of this;
now some dude can go fishing, drink beer, own guns and hunt, swear, fart...all this without having to say "yes dear"
Like the old SNL Phil Donahue parody: Man Bad. Woman Good.
March 24, 2009 - 12:48 ET by krendler...done so well by the great Phil Hartman.
There's nothing safer and more politically correct these days than:
Gushing over a woman or a black, regardless of how run-of-the-mill their accomplishment(s).
Putting down a man, especially a white man, especially a conservative white man, especially a conservative, wealthy white man.
And ya ever notice that the "bozo" or "bad guy" on every tv commercial these days is a white male. Safe.
I like how the title "Why Woman are leaving men for other women" implies that this is some Big New Phenomenon. (It's all the rage these days!!! Women are finally coming to their senses!!!) - Rather than a more mundane and much more accurate "Why (a tiny, tiny percentage of) women leave men for other women".
I think if I were married to
March 24, 2009 - 14:03 ET by USA4freedomI think if I were married to Opraha I might turn gay as well..
Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.
Insert: your name, 2008, and the Republican party.
Krendler...yes, Donahue was
March 24, 2009 - 14:07 ET by celatorKrendler...yes, Donahue was right at the forefront of the "white males are useless and probably evil" movement. He talked about it endlessly, to the point where you wondered why he hated himself so much.
"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded
kren... You are right on
March 24, 2009 - 15:31 ET by bigtimerkren...
You are right on the $$$!
We are tired of it in our home...in fact way past tired of it.
Lesbian Self Love
March 24, 2009 - 15:26 ET by Sprice2586If a woman is in love with herself does that a Lesbian make?
O loves herself more that any other. She kisses the mirror each night.
Cover, cover on the mag, who is the fairest on this month's rag?
"On today's 'Oprah', all
March 24, 2009 - 16:12 ET by SickofLibs"On today's 'Oprah', all audience members will receive a glitter strap-on and a fifth of Absolut Citron!"
Why doesn't Oprah just admit it...
March 24, 2009 - 22:07 ET by thebronzeEveryone knows she's a big 'ole carpet-muncher, why doesn't she just admit what everybody already knows?
Oprah
March 25, 2009 - 00:34 ET by NorthCoasterWill host her own coming out party next!
Paul
March 25, 2009 - 12:26 ET by misterbee241The Apostle Paul had all this covered in Romans 1:26-32 (http://www.bluelette...). And who says the Bible is irrelevant today?
"I dont need to read a newspaper to know the world's been shaved by a drunken barber."
Walter Brennan, The Colonel, Meet John Doe, 1941
There's always a price to
March 25, 2009 - 13:22 ET by rbosqueThere's always a price to pay. These liberals are going down a slippery slope indeed.