Four Pro-Homosexual 'Marriage' Clips, No Opponents on CNN

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Kate Bolduan, CNN Correspondent | NewsBusters.orgCNN's Kate Bolduan aired a slanted report on Catholic Charities of Washington's decision to no longer offer benefits to spouses of new employees on Saturday's Newsroom, playing four sound bites from proponents of same-sex "marriage" and none from opponents. Bolduan also omitted the liberal affiliation of one of the homosexual "marriage" advocates.

During the report, which first aired 11 minutes into the 10 pm Eastern hour (and reran during the 1 pm Eastern hour on Monday), the correspondent noted how homosexual couples could get their civil marriage licenses in DC starting on Tuesday, and that there was "controversial fallout" from the move: "Catholic Charities, the social services arm of the Archdiocese of Washington, just announced it will no longer offer health benefits to spouses of any new employees or current employees who aren't already covered under its plan. As a result, the nonprofit is effectively avoiding having to give benefits to same-sex partners, keeping with the Church's opposition to same-sex marriage."

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Bolduan spent the rest of her report playing the four clips from the supporters of legal homosexual "marriage." Three came from Chris Hinkle, who was labeled a "gay Catholic activist" on-screen and described by the correspondent as "gay and a practicing Catholic" (who admitted he wasn't practicing the Church's teaching on sexuality by maintaining a relationship with her "partner" for 10 years), and the remaining one came from Chris Korzen of Catholics United. CNN mentioned Korzen's organization on-screen, but Bolduan didn't mention their liberal affiliation, nor that he served as an organizer for the left-wing Service Employees International Union.

BOLDAUN (on-camera): How long have you and your partner been together?

CHRIS HINKLE, GAY CATHOLIC ACTIVIST: We've been together for 10 years.

BOLDUAN (voice-over): Chris Hinkle is gay and a practicing Catholic. He lives in Virginia and worships in Washington. Hinkle views the developments in D.C. as two steps forward, and quickly, two steps back for the gay and lesbian community and its strained relationship with the Catholic Church.

BOLDUAN (on-camera): Why is it disappointing to you?

HINKLE: It's a slap in the face. Yeah, it's prejudice.

BOLDUAN: Catholic Charities declined to comment, but the Archdiocese of Washington made a point to say that less than 10 percent of Catholic Charities employees take part in its health insurance program, suggesting that a small portion of the staff will be affected by the change in policy.

BOLDUAN (voice-over): And in a statement, the archdiocese says, 'This approach allows Catholic Charities to continue to provide services to the 68,000 people it now cares for in the city, to comply with the city's new requirements and to remain faithful to our Catholic identity.' A stance some Catholics say is damaging the Church's public image.

CHRIS KORZEN, DIRECTOR, CATHOLICS UNITED: They're getting a view of the Church that isn't necessarily consistent with our values. We don't say that people don't deserve health insurance because they happen to be in a certain kind of marriage or a certain kind of relationship. That's just not what we teach.

BOLDUAN: The very same message Chris Hinkle is trying to send as he fights for acceptance.

HINKLE: I want people to treat others with justice. That is a message that I think Jesus Christ himself had exemplified.

BOLDUAN (on-camera): And in today's world, you think that applies to health care, as well as the right to marry?

HINKLE: Absolutely it does. Absolutely.

The CNN correspondent did read the excerpt from the Archdiocese of Washington's statement, but she couldn't seem to find any orthodox Catholics who would vouch for the Church's teaching on marriage and sexuality.

—Matthew Balan is a news analyst at the Media Research Center. You can follow him on Twitter here.

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"Homosexuals marrying will not affect hetero marriage at all"

Gee, I've only heard that about 500 times here at NB alone.

So now no hetero spouses will be covered by Catholic Charities.

But cue the Catholic-bashers anyway - 3, 2, 1... 

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You're spot-on, SickofLibs.  You normalize something obviously abnormal (except to those who refuse to see, don't want to see, or are afraid to see) then your right against following along with the gay agenda is a guaranteed lawsuit against you.  And they know it.  And unfortunately there are those on the right who ask the naive and/or disingenuous question of "How are two gays marrying going to affect me?"

 

"Thou hast made us for Thyself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they find rest in Thee." - St. Augustine

And so it

And so it begins......

Before long there will be no church weddings available either I would imagine, cant discriminate you know...but of course, none of this will affect the hetero couples or people in this nation one little bit.

The slanted stories are what

The slanted stories are what make CNN and the other networks propaganda mills.

Yeah...

And they've lost half their viewership in 14 months and continue the same policy. Isn't it absolutely freaking amazing?

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Again bashing the Catholic church

Have they bothered again learning about catholic doctrine and homosexuality? Or do they simply expect a secular society will dictate what a faith is?

Hold up

These people are confusing the line of religion and government. CNN thinks they are the same because government is their religion.

They are talking about a government license.  It has nothing to do with religion.  Religions can believe and do whatever they want.  They can discriminate.  They can tell you what is right and what is wrong.

Government has no business being involved in marriage.  It isn't up to a vote.  It isn't within their power to define relationships.  That is a natural Right.

And whether that natural Right falls under religion or your own ideas is up to you.

And furthermore, the Communist News Network has no viewers.  Don't sweat them.

 

No one takes the

No one takes the anti-homosexual-marriage side seriously, do they?  So why should CNN air their views?  What are they, a clearinghouse for every whacky opinion that some nut happens to dream up?  Sheeesh!

Seriously though, doesn't CNN trail FOXnews by over a million viewers?

LOL, most of the time its

LOL, most of the time its more like 4 or 5 million

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"That boy'll lie when the truth will do"

- Mrs. Johnson, 8th grade teacher (ca. 1970)

Imagine

how dare the Catholic Church take any effort in line with what it teaches. /s

The Catholic Church does not support gay marriage and they aren't going to put themselves in a position where they have to recognize a spouse in a "gay marriage" .  Seems fairly reasonable to me.

Or.....

When they actually do present a token opinion from the anti-abomination side, it's inevitably the most goofy, stereotypically extreme-looking person in the group (wearing a funny hat or something) that they find to interview.  There could be 10,000 protesters out there and they'll find that one in the crowd to represent the side of traditional marriage.  It's never the average-looking middle class couple who are professional and well-spoken who actually represent most of the crowd.

This twisting and manipulation of the news is getting to the point where it is a threat to our national well-being.  When the news is being manipulated, tyranny thrives.   That's what's happening....our founding fathers recognized this and it's time for us to do the same.

An Example from Real Life

Spot on. I saw this media bias up close and personal many years back when I attended a pro-life rally. At the end of the event, the media showed up with cameras and reporters and were gathered around the single spittle-spewing, unhinged pro-life activist. The other 99.9999% of us, they ignored. They also weren't there when the whole thing was starting -- if they were, they would have caught the pro-aborts coming out of the frat house dressed like doctors, hurling insults before they ducked back inside.

So yeah, the media is completely in the tank for child-murder, and as far as I can tell, always has been. They don't care one bit about presenting a factual story, much less a "balanced" one. It's all about pimping dead babies all the time.

 

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Coincidentally, Kate Bolduan and I grew up in the same small (and very conservative) town in Indiana. I wondered when her reporting would be shown on Newsbusters. 


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