Posted on 10/17/2014 7:36:12 AM PDT by Kaslin
While the cultural commissars keep throwing praise and awards at raunchy shows on trendy Internet streaming channels, CBS has a series of highly-rated traditional police or military shows that get no attention or respect. "NCIS" keeps spinning off shows -- this year in New Orleans -- and "Blue Bloods" is a consistent Top 20 performer despite airing on Friday night. You won't see its star Tom Selleck at Emmy awards time.
"Blue Bloods" deals with an Irish-Catholic family of cops, headed by New York police commissioner Frank Reagan, played by Selleck. Some Catholics became fans of the show as a rare portrayal of a church-attending Catholic family dealing with today's thorny issues.
Some controversial topics lend themselves to debate. But the Hollywood left has another view of its pet causes. There is no moral relativism. There is right and there is wretchedly wrong.
On Oct. 10, someone at CBS pushed for a Very Special Episode on homosexuality -- and the allegedly horrific Catholic stance on it. At the opening of the episode, a policeman is "outed" by being at a crime scene in a gay neighborhood. This leads to Selleck's police commissioner having to discuss it at a press conference.
A reporter -- clearly speaking for Hollywood -- sneers at the top cop: "The Catholic Church condemns homosexuality as a sin, and the commissioner is famously Catholic. How do you line up your anti-gay faith with your role as an equal-opportunity employer?" Selleck's character replies: "What my men and women do in private is their own business."
The reporter shoots back: "So you only condemn homosexuality on Sunday?" All Selleck's character can offer is, "Well, I do believe the church is a little behind the times on this. But then, I still miss the Latin Mass; so next question."
This clumsy non sequitur spurred the rest of the show's plot. The producer wheels in a new character, Cardinal Brennan -- a stand-in for Cardinal Dolan of New York -- painted as a good friend of the commissioner's. Over lunch, he demands a public apology for the anti-Catholic slur over lunch -- although he apparently agrees in private that the church teaching is wrong.
"Come on Greg, give me a break. You and I have talked for hours about ways the Church needs to reform," Selleck's character laments. The cardinal replies, "Alone, in private, just between us men." The commissioner drags in the clergy sex-abuse scandals: "I do believe the church is backwards on this. And of all the stands to hold onto, in the midst of the scandals of the past decades." The cardinal shoots back "The Catechism of the Catholic Church remains firm on the matter, Frank." He then holds out his ring for an outraged Selleck to kiss.
CBS doesn't care that the Catechism's paragraphs on homosexuality preach "respect, compassion, and sensitivity" to people with homosexual attractions. That's never enough for Hollywood. The minute it suggests these men and women are "called to chastity" to avoid sin and "fulfill God's will," the conversation is over.
The episode's stick-figure propaganda continued. Because of his refusal to apologize, the commissioner is removed as guest of honor from a fundraising banquet for his old parish school. The episode ends with a religious sister who runs the school. Here comes another liberal plot twist. She confides, "Commissioner, the day I entered the convent started on the train platform in Madison, Wisconsin, where I kissed my girlfriend goodbye," and "there's never been a day I'm ashamed of who I was before, so thank you."
At CBS, the kangaroo court convenes, and the defendant is guilty before the episode is even written. It's an eyebrow-raiser when a network knowingly drives a program's natural audience away because it can't help but scratch a persistent leftist itch.
They have a long way to go before they out do ABC in that area........................
With all the strife in the world, it amazes me how this issue continues to get so much traction.
CBS must have two different camps.
One that creates and maintains the NCIS programs and Blue Bloods which are our favorite programs.
Then, there is their left wing news side and some left wing shows.
We could count the shows from NBC/ABC that we watch on one hand and still some free fingers.
The Church is even opposed to premarital sex - imagine that!
Does this make the Church anti-heterosexual too?
CBS is clueless.
I really liked that show, ugh...
I saw that episode of Blue Bloods.
It was completely unnecessary to have a lesbian nun to convince us to be liberal on homosexuality.
It is clear that the entertainment industry only has programs which present only positive views of homosexuality.
And why the need to introduce homosexuality into programs at all? Blue Bloods is a cop show. Why the need to bring homosexuality into it at all???
That is why I refuse to watch network TV anymore...it is all leftist propaganda. We play games, go for walks, and read instead. I feel I have a responsibility to shield my children from this BS.
Not at all. It's an old technique called "bait and switch."
They bait you with sympathetic shows and characters, then switch the moral stances of those shows and characters to try to make their opponents feel like they're not "caving in" by going into "neutral" with Entertainment's social projects.
They know they have you beaten if they can get you to doubt.
"Yea, hath God said...?"
Never seen it never will.
All modern shows apparently must eventually bow to the homosexual “god.” That’s why I don’t watch them. What’s sad is there’s so many faithless Americans who are so weak-minded they roll over for this blatant indoctrination.
I used to watch Blue Bloods every Friday but it took me just ten minutes to turn it off and it’s the last ten minutes they’ll ever get from me.
They may as well rename it to Gay Bloods.
“He then holds out his ring for an outraged Selleck to kiss”
I have never gotten the whole kissing ring thing. I don’t remember Jesus ever offering a hand/ring to be kissed. It is a tradition of fealty to man, not faith in God.
Typical lib writers throwing their twisted agenda into everything. Naturally, all the main principles have to be secretly for homosexual marriage even if publicly they're against it. Now I know why I don't watch the show.
It’s amazing how liberals are able to get away with all this. The Bible says what it says. Nobody alive today put the verses about homosexuality in there. They’ve been in there all along, for centuries. If you believe the Bible, you have to believe that homosexuality is wrong. Any church based on the Bible has to oppose homosexuality. Why must any church “change” or “evolve” to accept the very thing that is clearly condemned in the book they claim to base their church on? How can a gay nun or any pro-gay Catholic justify this?
I haven’t watched ANY network shows, except for football, since 2008. Got so disgusted I doodled on my computer and ending up writing a occupational and professional memoir that has just be published. Much better than having one’s brain assaulted nightly.
The turn around may come when certain advertisers discover how many of their wanted customers are no longer seeing their overpriced ads.
I watch it now and enjoy it. I'm a sucker for extended families sitting down to eat AND saying a heartfelt grace before the meal.
It makes a good scene in hollywood productions to show an evil bishop say something craven or cruel and then stifle discussion by forcing the outraged protagonist to bend his knee and kiss a ring.
However I have met a bishop and a cardinal in private settings. In neither case did they at any point hold out a ring for me to kiss. I certainly don't believe a bishop at lunch would treat a personal friend in such a high handed manner as the scene described herein says. That's not to say it's a fake image. I am certain it is indeed done, probably in formal ceremonies and selected public situations sometimes but not in ordinary use.
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Agree...its just pandering. Hope they let it go with this one episode.
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