(OPINION) VeggieTales co-creator Phil Vischer spent nearly 30 minutes on episode 537 of the Holy Post discussing Candace Cameron Bure’s move to the new Great American Family network (GAF). Bure, a professing Christian, was one of the biggest stars on the Hallmark Channel featured in over two dozen films.
She left Hallmark on account of their shift to feature same-sex couples and love stories, writing that she “wanted to promote faith programming and good family entertainment” and “I think that Great American Family will keep traditional marriage at the core.”
After taking a swipe at folks who don’t want to see movies with LBGTQ characters in them as people whose “comfort food is Cracker Barrel, and they just want a Christmas movie that feels like it was made in the 50s” Skye Jethani says it’s an “overreaction” on the part of GAF to not feature LBGTQ character in central or even non-central roles. Vischer agrees.
Vischer: If you’re trying to create, if you’re trying to present a world where certain classes of people do not exist, I’m pretty uncomfortable with that…my fear is that GAF, Great American Family, is going so far as to erase the existence of sexual or gender minorities, which I don’t think is beneficial at all to society, to just say, ‘hey, these people don’t exist in this world. So join us in this world where the people you don’t like don’t exist.’
Taylor: Well, and they might be successful with that model. I mean, there really is a- half our nation views things differently than the other half of our nation. So.
Vischer: Right, well, it’s red TV and blue TV. In blue TV everyone is a minority. In red TV no one is a minority unless they’re my funny friend that only comes over once in a while and doesn’t bring their boyfriend with them. (READ MORE)
