Harry Knox is not exactly a household name, and the media elite have no interest in making hime one. The media are in the controversy-making business, but not when Barack Obama picks "spiritual advisers" who think condoms are holier than the Pope.
Most media outlets have reported nothing on Knox, despite his view that Pope Benedict is "hurting people in the name of Jesus."
Some could say Bush's faith-based initiatives office didn't get much ink, either. But back in July 2001, the networks picked up and promoted gay-left groups like Knox's group (the Human Rights Campaign) in complaining about the Bush faith-based initiative. They made the Salvation Army a target of political criticism. (Here and here.)
A Nexis check shows that since Obama selected Knox last spring, there is nothing from ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, Time, Newsweek, and USA Today.
The Washington Post briefly noted the appointment (without critics) in April, and then used Knox in a story about the Episcopal Church in July. The New York Times only mentioned Knox last year in a profile of Bill Donohue (last May):
And Mr. Obama’s appointment of Harry Knox, a gay human-rights activist -- ''an anti-Catholic bigot who has called the pope a liar'' -- to the Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships had Mr. Donohue in overdrive.
''This is fantastic,'' said Mr. Donohue, 61, with a gap-toothed smile that he rarely shows on television. ''I can't get enough of it.''
CNN captured John Boehner condemning Knox in live coverage of a press conference, but never in an actual news story they produced. MSNBC's Nexis search (their transcripts are only from parts of their schedule) found a defense of know on Ed Schultz's show last April.
Several networks (NBC and NPR) talked to Knox in December 2008 as he protested....Barack Obama, or more precisely, Obama's decision to invite evangelical pastor Rick Warren to offer the invocation at the Inauguration. The NPR show was Tell Me More:
HARRY KNOX: Well, we were outraged about this decision, Michel, because he could have chosen so many other people to serve in this role. But he chose a person who has used the most divisive and hateful language you can imagine to talk about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people like me and my husband, Mike.
MICHEL MARTIN, NPR: What do you consider hateful?
KNOX: Well, when he compares us to people who practice bestiality and pedophilia, to be called a pedophile is the most insulting thing I can imagine. If I were a violent person it would get him a punch in the nose. But this is the sort of speech that's used about LGBT people with impunity by folks all the time, and we're standing up to say that is unacceptable and it certainly shouldn't be done by a person who's going to be invited to be the preacher at the inaugural.
MARTIN: Harry Knox, if I could just continue with you for just a minute. There are some 62 million evangelical Christians in this country. Is it your view that they should have no representation in this inauguration, or is it something about Rick Warren?
KNOX: Absolutely not. It's Rick Warren. It's the choice of this person that's so hurtful to us.
Evangelicals who completely accept the LGBT agenda -- he wouldn't have minded one of them praying for Obama and the country. Once again, the forces of "tolerance" want anyone who disagrees with them silenced.
—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center.
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Quoting Ring Lardner:
Sat, 02/06/2010 - 12:29 ET by motherbelt"Shut up," he explained.
Knox doesn't care that his claims have not been proven true; that in Africa, condoms have not been shown to reduce HIV. He's not interested in any evidence that refute his claim.
I suppose the solution is MORE condoms.
calling evil 'good' and vice-versa
Sat, 02/06/2010 - 12:43 ET by konoA father is seen gripping his toddler tightly by the wrist, with the child dangling over the edge of a cliff, and the child is screaming. The man is hurting the boy, right?
Not if someone else was chasing his boy over the cliff, the man snatched the boy's wrist just in time to stop it, and he's slowly lifting him to safety.
Knox and his ilk have been chasing kids over the cliff of early sexualization for years, and Pope Benedict is grabbing at their wrists, trying to save them. If he didn't teach them to live in right relation with others and to save sex for marriage, it'd be like the man who lets the child fall over the cliff, too worried that grabbing the boy's wrist might hurt him.
Yeah, Knox's approach would avoid the pain of having abstinence and self-restraint preached at them -- but in the end it leads many of them to their deaths (physically AND spiritually).
Get rid of Harry Knox.
But...
Sat, 02/06/2010 - 12:49 ET by dbz77If you teach teenagers to save sex until marriage, would that not just convince teens to marry just right after graduating high school, or even before? After all, teens are impulsive. Would that be better?
butt...
Sat, 02/06/2010 - 20:54 ET by konoSome may do that. Others won't. Should a strategy be rejected unless it succeeds in every case?
As for whether the potential that some might rush into marriage would be better.... well, it wouldn't be worse. There's no magic pill to make all people do the right thing at any age. So the only choice is to teach what's right, try to be good role models, and pray for the best. Beats the heck out of trying to play psychological games with invalid moral precepts and expecting the worst.
Laying the foundations of self-discipline and deferred gratification is neither fun nor easy. But one of the easiest ways to guarantee the next generation a harder life is to leave them without any development in that regard.
Jack Chick
Sat, 02/06/2010 - 12:47 ET by dbz77Obama might as well have picked Jack Chick as his advisor.
What is wrong with condoms?
what indeed...
Sat, 02/06/2010 - 18:24 ET by konoIn a practical sense, condoms are not reliable enough at preventing conception or guarding against disease. Their failure rate approaches 10% even when used 'properly', and higher when not used properly.
In a more spiritual sense, artificial contraceptives strip the conjugal act of its ability to raise human love to mirror the complete self-giving of God's own heart, reducing it to an act that treats pleasure as the highest good.
The media don't care
Sat, 02/06/2010 - 12:51 ET by American DelightThe media don't care because a lot of reporters don't like the Pope either.
As for Knox, he sounds more like a disciple of the gay political agenda rather than a disciple of Christ.
What's Up?
Sat, 02/06/2010 - 13:44 ET by jakotaWhat's up with 0bama and the gays?
Kevin Jennings, Harry Knox, eliminate "Don't Ask Don't" tell, somethimg's strange about Big Sis, too.
I would think something was
Sat, 02/06/2010 - 18:23 ET by ThoreauI would think something was wrong if Obama didn't pick a degenerate assclown. So, all's right with the world. He did.