Today's Commentary
Should the NCAA have pulled a Focus on the Family ad from their website? The ad said, “Celebrate Family. Celebrate Life. All I want for my son is for him to grow up knowing how to do the right thing.”
Bill O’Reilly called the ad, “harmless” on his show Wednesday. His guest, the President of the Women’s Media Group, Jehmu Greene, agreed, calling it benign. But she also called it a lure, a seemingly harmless enticement with the hidden intent to draw people to the Focus on the Family (FOF) website, to an organization Greene claims is “intolerant, divisive, homophobic, anti-choice, and anti-woman.”
Greene’s organization was fully behind the pulling of the ad. On "The O’Reilly Factor" she began her defense of their position by saying that the NCAA had “bigger balls than the NFL ”. In a country where intelligent, professional talk used to prevail in our debates, I am embarrassed for this woman who disgraced herself by her opening remarks in the hope of a laugh. She was not there as a comedian. She was there to present an argument.
Ms. Greene quickly regrouped, saying the NCAA had declared the Focus agenda did not line up with their policy or their mission. But Greene went on to say, “Young people who are tolerant will not stand for the FOF agenda.” Greene espoused this generation as “a generation of young people who are tolerant, who are the most diverse generation this country has ever seen, and (who) will not put up with the(se) types of ads and the agenda of Focus on the Family.”
What a claim. She offered no data or statistics with it. She simply defined for our twenty-something’s who their generation is, and listeners are to accept it as fact.
Well I don’t. Here is what I know of this younger generation, of which my daughter is a member. They are a thoughtful and action-oriented group of young people. They desire truth and authenticity, and seek to discover the absolute truth found only in God. They seek justice and long for a moral compass. These young adults will not only “put up” with these types of ads, pretty soon they will be rolling them out and demanding their visibility.
O’Reilly bashed Ms. Greene for her intolerance. He should have also bashed her for her idiocy. She called a generation too tolerant to tolerate. Ridiculous.
Ironically, it was in the name of tolerance that her organization protested the ad and demanded it be pulled from the NCAA website. Not only is that an act of intolerance, it is an attack on the freedom of speech. Greene defended the organization. “We have a right to protest.... We are protesting FOF on the agenda.” To which O’Reilly countered, “You have a right to protest, but not pull.”
Greene claimed Focus on the Family says “gay people are the death of the earth and they will destroy America.” Really? Word choice is everything. Do some evangelical groups believe the gay lifestyle is detrimental to America’s population growth? Yes. Do they think that gay “people” are the death of America? I have yet to see or hear such hateful words from any respected member of the Christian community.
But these are the liberal lies that are being spewed all over the upcoming generation. Our younger adults are being programmed to believe that good is evil and evil is good; that inclusiveness is paramount over holiness; and that they are the golden generation that will turn this country on its head where it belongs, in lieu of its standing upright on solid ground.
Hold on to your hat, America.
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