#moral majority

[vintage-tigre]

[oldshowbiz]

The Moral Majority, founded by the same person who founded the Heritage Foundation, fought a legal battle to have the Gordon Parks novel The Learning Tree banned from schools.

[livinces]

Just saw an Anti bitching about their usual slop, and they ended it with "I just have morals and touch grass."

No, honey... you definitely DO NOT touch grass, that's for damn sure. 😐

They also called it a "controversial take." No, bitch, your Moral Majority, Pro-Censorship bullshit IS the popular take. You are actively lying to push your "Morally Pure 🙏🏽🥺 People Are Underdogs Nowadays" narrative. You move like a religious Conservative.

[lexyscross]

Not someone with "proshippers + darkshippers dni" in their bio Liking one of MY posts about SCREAM on my HORROR blog!

The amount of horror fans nowadays who are Puritans when it comes to ships is so fucking ironically self-unaware that it would be funny if it weren't worrying. (Pro-Censorship mindset is on the rise.)

[thevillainsfangirl]

I'm going to start calling Antis "The Moron Majority," a play on "Moral Majority." Because that's what they are, even though many of them wouldn't admit it to try to look Progressive.

They're literally the same. They are no different. They're like Conservatives in the 90's and 2000s who protested GTA and horror movies and "vulgar" music and Gossip Girl.

[infamousbrad]

Pat Robertson is Dead and I Feel Conflicted

In the late 1970s, Robertson was a founder of the John Birch Society funded movement to persuade Baptists (and Protestants in general) to vote Republican, along with fellow evangelists Oral Roberts and Jerry Falwell, lobbyist Jack Abramoff, and film-maker/fund-raiser Frank Schaeffer Junior. Originally named the Moral Majority, we now know it just as the Religious Right.

Schaeffer has come to repent of his work as (basically) the Koch Network's bagman in the late '70s, and has written an autobiographical expose of that movement and his role in it called Crazy for God. There's a chapter, near the end, where he shares what he remembers of his first impressions of Abramoff, Falwell, Roberts, and, yes Robertson -- and Robertson was the one he actually felt sorry for.

He said that every time he was in a room with Robertson, he was surrounded by staff who were straight-up taking advantage of the fact that (in Schaeffer's opinion) Robertson was an unmedicated schizophrenic. Over and over again, staff would come into the room from some other meeting, or get off the phone with somebody else (presumably a funder), walk up behind Robertson, and whisper something. A couple of minutes later, Robertson would tell people that he had just "heard a voice from God" telling him, word for word, what he hadn't consciously noticed an aide feeding him.

Schaeffer's opinion was that Robertson was a mentally ill person being abused by the sharpies around him, because they'd learned that they could get him to say anything with perfect sincerity because once the voices in his head repeated something, he would repeat it back as many times as necessary with absolute sincerity.

So it feels to me like today we're celebrating the death of an abused mentally ill man who was used as a tool, as a puppet, by people who basically got away with it. I want to say that he didn't do a lot of harm, that he was used as a disposable cut-out for the people who used him up and got away with it.

[whatevergreen]

"Gay commercialism is not gay liberation..."

Cartoon and commentary from gay paper San Francisco Crusader March 05 1981

[oldshowbiz]

The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks was denounced by lunatics who considered it an anti-God novel that aimed for the gutter.