Media Research Center contributing writer Justin Ashford really, really hates that there are LGBT characters on the CBS show “Pure Genius.”
Oh, he liked the show at first — when it conformed to the MRC’s right-wing dogma. The premiere episode centered on a woman with cancer who refused treatment because she was pregnant. Ashford gushed over the “self-sacrificing love [the character] showed for her unborn daughter” and how that “shows just how powerful pro-lifers really are.”
But Ashford soon changed his tune. In December, he complained that the show “followed the liberal Hollywood PC script by adding a transgender character” to one episode. He ranted: “The most alarming thing about this is [the transgender character] claimed to identify as a woman at age six – clearly trying to push the envelope of gender identification at such a young age. A six-year old is still learning to read and write. How the heck does one know their “identity” then? And yet this is what liberals are pushing on kids.”
Ashford ranted further, “The Human Rights Campaign reports that only 18 states consider transgender a protected class in the workplace, but it’s their goal to run roughshod over religious freedom and commonsense to make it all 50. ” He doesn’t explain how protecting the rights of transgenders interferes with “religious freedom.” He concludes: “Such a shame as this show started with an actual conservative approach. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out Hollywood has their own agenda, and they want to ensure we all comply. No thanks.”
On Jan. 2, Ashford whined that the latest episode included “a gay ex-prostitute, a lesbian outing and a transgender actor/actress portraying a Christian!” He huffed: “What’s next for Pure Genius? Possibly cancellation. We can only hope the liberal Hollywood LGBT agenda dies with it.”
Ashford had another anti-gay freakout over the show on Jan. 12:
Well, no surprise, CBS’s Pure Genius again reminds us that pushing the LGBT agenda is vital to their concept of entertainment. This time, we see two gay dads with a son.
[…]If this were on TV ten or even five years ago, it would be anything but normal. But hey, these are the times we’re living in. Thanks to Hollywood, the only abnormal folks are those deplorables who still support the traditional family.
That’s Ashford and the MRC for you: Anyone who doesn’t agree with them, or look like them, is “abnormal” and must be held to scorn and ridicule.