They are getting a little punchy in bible-beating newsgathering land.
How’d you like that title on your fundie business card - media and sexuality analyst? It’s probably adjacent to the sign of the fish:
With films such as “Dark-Haired Sluts” and “Next Door Panties” on its movie menu, Marriott International is coming under heavy fire from family activists urging the hotel giant to banish such sexual fare from its bedrooms.
Focus on the Family met with hotel executives in Washington, D.C., yesterday and provided Marriott with a petition signed by 102,000 concerned citizens who want pornographic films purged from the list of movie offerings.
Daniel Weiss, media and sexuality analyst for the group, said Marriott has billed itself as a family-lodging establishment, and its decision to provide adult films to its customers is contrary to its reputation.
“In a sense, they’ve kind of put themselves out there,” he told WND. “We saw that offering pornographic content was incongruent with the image they were really going after.”
OK, well maybe not that one.
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Media and sexuality analyst? The jokes write themselves.
Umm…I’m wondering…are they accepting applications for that job. Just as long as I have my own office, or can work at home.
Those darned hotels, forcing good upstanding Christians to watch all that pay-per-view porn!
102,000 signatures? What’s that, maybe the same number of guests who stay Marriot hotels in one night? Maybe even only a fraction of Marriot, if you include Marriot conglomerate hotels as well.
I guess it’s just another example of someone else knowing what’s best for the whole country based on the “I am the whole world” theory.
Hmmm. “Porn in the USA” was clever… Once… 20 years ago. But that’s about the worst play on “Sticks nix hicks pix” I’ve ever seen.
As for my family, such trite fare would simply bore us. For an adult film to even begin to pique our interest it must contain at least three fetishes in the title. “Dark-Haired Sluts”? No thanks. “Dark-Haired Transexual Latex Domination Sluts”? Sign us up!
“102,000 signatures? What’s that, maybe the same number of guests who stay Marriot hotels in one night?”
Not just that, but there’s a pretty big overlap between the people likely to be on the list and the people likely to order pay-per-view porn like mad while staying at a hotel without the family in tow.
Hahaha!
I stayed at a Marriot last month when we went to my cousin’s wedding. They have a preprinted plastic card on top of the television letting you know that pay-per-view options are available, and that some of those options are “adults only”. So, if you’d rather not have that option available during your stay, you can click a button on your menu and all adult ppv options will be disabled for the duration of your stay.
I clicked, and sure enough, not only did the adult options vanish from the menu, but there was no way for me to reverse that decision (short of calling the front desk, I assume) and get those pron movies back!
As I was travelling with 3 kids under 8, including a 15 month old that LOVES remotes and can climb anything to get to one, I wished there was a way to turn off ALL ppv options, but, alas, if the baby wants to order “Knocked Up” she can.
Maybe the fact you have to opt out and then can’t opt back in without contacting someone and letting them know you want to opt in is what’s upsetting them? That they have to make the decision to be ‘holy’ and avoid temptation? They’d rather not have temptation available in the first place?
Well, too bad! Seal yourself up in a bubble if you must, but it’s exceptionally unpatriotic to try to force your protected religion down everyone else’s throat. We have the same 1st amendment rights, you know, the ones that protect us from whackadoodle hypocrites.
Someone should ask these yobbos which category of movies they would like to ban next. There are a lot of things other than unmarried sex that the bible prohibits. Maybe all movies that depict people engaging in such abominations as eating ham, shellfish or cheeseburgers.
Not just that, but there’s a pretty big overlap between the people likely to be on the list and the people likely to order pay-per-view porn like mad while staying at a hotel without the family in tow.
Marriot should react to this petition, by taking the reponsibile step of publishing the names and adult video titles ordered by all fundies.
That way, they can seek forgiveness and the fundie media watchdogs can get rid of all those secret-porn-addicts and other backsliders that are corrupting their ranks.
Isn’t that what one would call a “win-win”?
“Someone should ask these yobbos which category of movies they would like to ban next.”
R-rated films, unless that rating is only due to violence (especially “patriotic” violence - think Rambo3, or Red Dawn - Patriotic Violence, or God’s Divine Retribution, is a sacred thing that must be promoted, not denied.)
They tried to tell us after the Janet Jackson / Justin Timberlake incident that nipples are the downfall of humankind, but we just didn’t listen.
Then they go after PG’s, and then those G movies with witches and occult elements (like that Mary Poppins! what was she REALLY teaching those poor innocent children?…)…
It all ends with Barney and Vegetales being the only acceptable form of entertainment…
One of my dearest friends has worked in the hotel industry for many years and is now the manager of a posh hotel in a major city. She laughs herself sick about this as it is apparently well-known in her industry that porn revenues go way up whenever there’s any kind of church-related conference at a given hotel.
How hard is it to set up a petition signing thing? How many signatures do you think we could get asking Marriot to KEEP the porn?
I don’t know about Barney, though. Dinosaurs never really existed. Weren’t the bones were just put there by God so he could jump out and yell “gotcha” at some point?
Although, according to the creation museum, dinosaurs roamed the garden of Eden. Hmm, methinks they need to get the story straight.
And there’s gotta be a problem with anthropomorphic vegetables.
ohsohappy, I wonder how the Mennonites handle that sort of thing. In many respects, it seems like the fundies are jealous of the “simple” life and want to roll back the clock.
Except, of course, the fundies have to drive the biggest, baddest SUV/van/mega-vehicle to haul the Quiverful around…oh and they love atomic weapons with which to threaten “IslamoFascists”…
Please, please, please can we let them go back to the simple life? Maybe have a few discreet cameras placed around places like the kitchen, so we can watch and laugh as they manage without any modern appliances? But no cameras in the bedrooms though because, you know, porn… and ew, fundie porn at that.
my church mandates the viewing of pornography at prayer. We pray 5 times a day, facing the television set. not entirely unlike muslims. except we watch porn instead of face mecca.
we specifically list marriott hotels as the preferred lodging provider due to their wonderful pornography options.
We will cease staying there if they discontinue the porn.
WWJD?
so much for letting the market work
Actually, Barney is a dinosaur. You know, those things that lived millions of years before god created the earth? Big no-no.
In fact, thinking about it, I can’t imagine any movie less biblically offensive than married-people amateur porn. Because it’s the only genre without people wearing cotton-poly blend. And the bible’s fine with kinky sex shit as long as there’s some procreation, or at least the possibility.
Isn’t Barney Tinky Winky’s purple gay lover?
“Isn’t Barney Tinky Winky’s purple gay lover?”
…if that’s true, not only is Barney a walking creationist’s paradox, he’s a pedophile too…
…if that’s true, not only is Barney a walking creationist’s paradox, he’s a pedophile too…
Please.
“I love you, you leave me”
It’s pedobestiality, Mike. Pedobestiality.
Well, of course. Each and every one of the fundies must view each and every porn film in order to be able to fulminate properly about how immoral the films are. You wouldn’t want them to be arguing from ignorance, would you?
“And there’s gotta be a problem with anthropomorphic vegetables”
Obviously, if we allow children to view this sort of thing, with vegetables loving one another, they are going to grow up thinking that sort of thing is okay, which will inevitably lead to their wanting to marry interkingdom, and who knows where that might lead? Imagine if they bring their vegetable to Thanksgiving dinner? And not in a casserole!