From: spiker

Date: Sun Dec 17, 2000 9:00am
Subject: THE PRACTICE - ABC [Gay Is OK]

This is worth letting you know about.

A Mr. Neugent wrote a letter to the ABC network Online Webmaster. His comments are as follows:

I wrote to ABC concerning a program called "THE PRACTICE." One of the lawyer's mother decided she was gay and wanted her son to go to court to help her get a marriage license to marry her 'partner.' I sent the following letter to ABC yesterday and really did not expect a reply ... but I did get one.

My original message was:
ABC is obsessed (or should I say abscessed) with the subject of
homosexuality. I will no longer watch any of your attempts to convince the world that homosexuality is OK. THE PRACTICE can be a fairly good show but last night's program was so typical of your agenda. You picked the 'dufus' of the office to be the one who was against the idea of his mother being gay and made him look like a whiner because he had convictions. This type of mentality calls people like me a "gay basher."

Read the first chapter of Romans (that's in the Bible) and see what the apostle Paul had to say about it... He and God and Jesus were all 'gay bashers.' What if she'd fallen in love with her cocker spaniel ... is that an alternative lifestyle? (By the way, the Bible speaks against that, too.)

Jim Neugent

Here is ABC's reply from the ABC online Webmaster:

How about getting your nose out of the Bible (which is ONLY a book of stories compiled by MANY different writers hundreds of years ago) and read the Declaration of Independence (what our nation is built on) where it says "All Men are Created Equal"-- and try treating them that way for a
change!? Or better yet, try thinking for yourself and stop using an archaic book of stories as your lame crutch for your existence. You are in the minority in this country and your boycott will not affect us or our freedom of expression.

Mr. Neugent responded to ABC:

Thanks for your reply,
Evidently, I hit a nerve from your harsh reply.I will share it with all with whom I come in contact. Hopefully, the Arkansas Democrat Newspaper will include it in one of their columns. And...I will be praying for you.

Jim Neugent

Mean, Arkansas

(Mr. Neugent requests that you send this to everyone in your mailbox)

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