LISTEN TO THE PLUGGED IN SHOW, EPISODE 177
Your preschoolers are screaming. You have stuff to do. You decide to cash in some of your children’s allotted TV time before you drive each other crazy. You switch on one of their favorite cartoons—you know, something with anthropomorphic animals that is all about friendship and kindness and maybe teaching kids about their colors—and you stop for a minute. Hey, you ask yourself. Are those two male hyenas holding hands?
Welcome to the world of 21st-century kids’ entertainment, where more often than not, you’ll find some sort of LGBT content shoehorned in.
How many moms and dads are ready to talk about transgenderism with their 5-year-olds? In days gone by, families used to be able to filter out the few shows that might contain such content. Today, it’s not so easy. So what are parents to do? Adam Holz talks with Focus on the Family’s issues analyst Jeff Johnston about how to navigate these issues with your family—and develop a thoughtful, meaningful theological response.
And then once we’re done with our metaphorical hyena couple, we’ll talk about a couple of an entirely different stripe—a couple of running, jumping and plumbing brothers. The Super Mario Bros. Movie is already one of the biggest films of the year, and our reviewer Bob Hoose tells us all about it.
Once we hop on that Goomba, we’ll slide down a metaphorical pipe and into our Name That Movie game—and we invite you to join in! (You can find the official contest rules below). And whether you play along or not, we’d love to hear your thoughts on what we’ve talked about today, on Facebook, Instagram or via email ([email protected]).
And yes, you can read more about everything we talked about on this episode by clicking on the links below.
Additional Resources:
- Daily Citizen: https://dailycitizen.focusonthefamily.com/
- Focus on the Family Article: “How Did We Get to This Gender-Confused Place?”
- Focus on the Family Article: “Is My Teen Struggling With Homosexuality?”
- Focus on the Family Article: “How to Talk With Your Children About Homosexuality”
- Plugged In Blog: “Is Summer the Time For Fun and Game Shows? TV Sure Thinks So.”
- Jim Daly’s Blog: “How to Talk With Your Kids About Bruce Jenner”
- Plugged In Review: Up
- Plugged In Review: The Road to El Dorado
- Plugged In Review: The Iron Giant
- Plugged In Review: Bolt
- Plugged In Review: The Incredibles
- Plugged In Review: Finding Nemo
- Plugged In Review: Super Mario Bros. Movie
- Plugged In Review: Lightyear
- Plugged In Review: Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
- Plugged In Review: Minions: The Rise of Gru
- Plugged In Review: The Batman
- Plugged In Review: Zathura: A Space Adventure
- Plugged In Review: Herbie: Fully Loaded
12 Responses
-As a Bible believing Christian, I have nothing but compassion for the LGBTQ community, even though I disagree with that lifestyle choice. The best thing to do is pray for these people, that they turn to the One who is the Answer to their problems, Jesus Christ.
-I don’t know if they can be saved, especially the T part. I’d say that’s practically taking the Mark of the Beast.
-“And such WERE some of you” — 1 Corinthians 6:11 referring to believers who formerly practiced sinful lifestyles, including homosexuality. Only one sin is unforgivable, and that is not homosexuality or transexuality. God can still save these people and there are plenty of instances in which He has.
-What are you basing that on, especially the “Mark of the Beast” speculation?
-It’s called reprobation – the rejection of God before the beginning of the world. And I’d say there is no surer sign of it than mutilating one’s self in such a way. Isn’t that akin to taking the Mark? God rejects the person, so the person finds all manner of obscene ways to reject Him.
-What is the Mark? Is that a reference to the mark on Cain?
– I find that’s not the case at all. God gives us this life so that we can glorify Him in all of it. There is no judgement until after death and so anyone in this life has the chance to be saved. Sometimes, its the people in the LGBTQ+ community that need Jesus the most.
-Good episode today. I’ve been wondering myself how to navigate the culture’s LGBT messaging to my prospective children, as it wasn’t as much of an issue when I was growing up.
-Have there been any studies examining if there is a connection between LGBTQ identification and exposure to violent pornography among teenagers? I wonder if the increase in transgender and other identifications is a rejection of the broken way our culture has depicted romance and marriage over the years.
Please disregard this comment if I am completely wrong. We could not afford cable or internet at home when I was a teenager, so I was not exposed to the same things and homosexuality does not really make sense to me.
-You are absolutely right about this. People who spend a lot of time looking at porn are more likely to sexually abuse children, and sexually abused children are much more likely to become gay. We should completely eliminate porn worldwide.
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
-Benjamin Franklin.
-(citations needed, and your intended solution would eliminate a large variety of historical Christian artwork)
-Do we really need this topic again? I don’t know what it accomplishes, and it keeps popping up every few months. It wasn’t all that long ago we were discussing Sam Smith’s outfit, then Strange World (which I don’t think was marketed very well, though I heard good things about it from the 5 people who saw it), then the Buzz Lightyear movie (which I didn’t think was very good). It always sounds to me like more people are afraid of what’s happening in Hollywood than of what’s already happened in Colorado Springs, Orlando, and countless other places where the same demographic accused of “shoehorning” content toward an age group where a lot of needless bullying takes place, is being targeted by much worse things.