Posted on 08/26/2015 5:36:49 AM PDT by wagglebee
HOLLYWOOD, CA, August 25, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) -- Comic book superhero Wonder Woman will officiate a same-sex "wedding" in an upcoming issue.
Jason Badowerhe, Wonder Woman's cartoonist, says it was his idea to make Wonder Woman, as the comic will say, "a proponent of gay marriage."
Badowerhe says DC Comics was "fantastic" over the idea. He told The Sydney Morning Herald that his editor "was like, 'Great! I love it! Let's do it!'"
In the comic, Wonder Woman solemizes two women's "marriage." "By the power vested in me," is replaced with "Bound by the lasso of truth." At the conclusion of the ceremony, when traditionally the celebrant says, "I now pronounce you husband and wife," Wonder Woman simply says, "I now pronounce you married."
An amazed Clark Kent questions Wonder Woman, who says gay "marriage" is no big deal to her, because her home island, Themyscura, is all women. "To us," she blithely explains, "it's not 'gay' marriage. It's just marriage."
The two lesbians are portrayed as heroes as well: they are volunteers helping people after Hurricane Katrina destroyed much of New Orleans.
The goal is to promote same-sex "marriage," and to portray it as normal. "Wonder Woman is such a recognized icon, she's like an international diplomat," Badowerhe said. "When she says 'This is what I do and it's no big deal to me,' she can pave the way to make [homosexual marriage] more normal for everybody."
Badowerhe explained that he is projecting for his readers "who we want to be." "Popular culture reflects who we are now, but it can reflect who we want to be," he said. "I think DC superheros are who we want to be."
Critics say Badowerhe and DC Comics are perverting the character Wonder Woman away from the character's original 1941 composition. The creator of Wonder Woman, psychologist William Moulton Marston, clearly intended Wonder Woman to be heterosexual, as she was in love with Steve Trevor. Wonder Woman even called Steve Trevor her lover.
Wonder Woman was created during World War II, and she often fought Nazis. Her depiction as a muscular heroine fighting for justice and peace has led to Wonder Woman being adopted as a feminist icon.
The issue will be online Friday, and the printed comic book will be published in November.
Thanks wagglebee.
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Though I do like Sad Sack, I like the superhero genre. Always have, and still draw it to this day.
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My favorite countercultural movies that were verrrry well done include Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ which despite the absolute refusal of Hollweird cooperation or even tolerance was magnificently successful at the box office as well and the great fact about the movie on the business side was that Gibson directed it, produced it, oversaw distribution of it and did not have to share the vast profit with the usual gang of Hollywood suspects. In having God working through Matthew, Mark, Luke and John as the writer, Gibson was quite likely to succeed. The man has personal flaws as do we all and has fallen short of the glory of God as do we all. His cinematic achievement with this movie should earn him support in all things moral and should never be forgotten.
Gibson also directed and starred in Braveheart which despite his adultery with the wife of the lavender crown prince (Edward II) had a raft of moral high points. That adultery did not occur since the lady in question (a French princess and daughter of King Philip the Fair) was a ten year old child living in France when William Wallace was executed. Edward III was her illegitimate son by a knight who was executed by Edward III upon attaining his majority and the throne.
Another favorite was For Greater Glory about the Catholic revolution in Mexico in the 1920s and 1930s against the utterly evil regime of Mexican el presidente Plutarco Calles, an enemy of all religions. Peter O'Toole as a martyred pastor (one of his final roles), Andy Garcia as the previously atheist general who was the military leader of the revolution who became a Catholic. A great, true and seldom told story. During the final credits, the film shows actual footage of the execution by firing squad of the young Jesuit priest and martyr Miguel Pro who was condemned by a kangaroo court for the "crime" of saying Mass in the basement of a Mexico City home. The distribution of the film was severely restricted but it is available on DVD and well worth watching.
Hollywood was once a force for good. Louis Mayer of MGM was approached by a "friend" who complained about all those wholesome MGM films and particularly the Andy Hardy movies. The "friend" urged Mayer to make movies that would accept adultery and other evils as "normal" and were "more fit for adults."
Mayer was a Jew who came to the US as a refugee from Czarist Russia during the pogroms that resulted from the aborted revolution of 1905. Mayer told his "friend" that America and its people had taken him in, as a stranger, during his hour of greatest need and allowed him to become a very successful man making moral movies and that he would NEVER make movies that would harm the US or its people. Then he told his "friend" to get lost. We also need men who are good Jews like Louis Mayer.
God bless you and yours!
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