Pastor Andy Stanley recently left some Christians qutng his stance on homosexualy after preachg a msage on grace and tth that clud an acunt of a gay uple last month. He told The Christian Post he may issue a statement the near future.
Contents:
- WILL & GRACE IS BRGG GAY LOVE AND MARRIAGE TO AMERI THIS FALL
- ‘WILL & GRACE’ CO-CREATOR SAYS JOE BIN MENTNED SHOW PRR TO GAY MARRIAGE ENDORSEMENT
- HOW ‘WILL & GRACE’S’ RELATABLE VIBE HELPED AUDIENC ACCEPT GAY CHARACTERS
- ‘WILL & GRACE’ FANS ARE STILL UNSURE IF ERIC MCCORMACK IS GAY REAL LIFE
- JOE BIN: ‘WILL & GRACE’ THE TURNG POT BATE OVER GAY ‘MARRIAGE,’ RIGHTS
- HOW TV BROUGHT GAY PEOPLE INTO OUR HOM
- DID 'WILL AND GRACE' W THE GAY RIGHTS WARS?
WILL & GRACE IS BRGG GAY LOVE AND MARRIAGE TO AMERI THIS FALL
The vice print tells "Meet the Prs" he is "absolutely fortable" wh the ia of gays and lbians tyg the knot, and creds the groundbreakg s wh changg public opn. * will and grace gay marriage *
By brgg two charismatic gay men to dienc, “Will & Grace” was a force for polil change and a prime example of the power of televisn to shape people’s opns and open their mds to new ias. “‘Will & Grace’ has done so much to help people feel like they know somebody LGBT, ” said Wilson Cz, an activist and actor who had his own groundbreakg role as a gay character on “My So-Called Life, ” told TheWrap.
At the height of s populary, 25 ln people watched “Will & Grace” every week and saw two out, succsful gay men livg their liv. “There were people who didn’t know any gay people and probably believed all of the horrible, nightmare gore that was out there.
“Will & Grace” worked overtime to do everythg uld to appease viewers to the then-somewhat radil ia of gay characters on televisn. The untry went om a time when the producers of a TV show worried about offendg viewers wh the very ia of a gay man to marriage equaly the span of 20 years. “Star Trek” has existed for more than 50 years, but took until 2017 and the latt eratn, CBS All Accs’ “Star Trek: Disvery, ” for the anchise to troduce s first gay characters, played by Cz and Anthony Rapp.
‘WILL & GRACE’ CO-CREATOR SAYS JOE BIN MENTNED SHOW PRR TO GAY MARRIAGE ENDORSEMENT
After passg both the Assembly & Senate, voters will ci whether to remove the language about gay marriage the Declaratn of Rights. * will and grace gay marriage *
“When we’re talkg about LGBT stori on TV, a lot of the time we’re really talkg about gay whe men.
At the end of the first episo of the Will & Grace revival last fall, Grace (Debra Msg) leav a red "Make Ameri Gay Aga" hat on Print Tmp's chair the Oval symbolic gture was a signal to Ameri (and the current polil admistratn) of why the NBC edy, which origally left the air 2006 after eight seasons, had returned to work televisn. "I feel jt beg on the air every sgle week celebratg the LGBTQ muny is somethg that feels necsary right now, and mak me feel good about wakg up the morng, " Msg Will & Grace succeed their missn of makg Ameri gayer? "We are the straightt gay show of all time, " marveled McCormack, who acknowledged the generatn of "younger trailblazers" who me along after Will & Grace's first n and are creasg LGBTQ reprentatn the media.
"I thk that every time a fay middle Ameri that don't know a lot of gay people... "There's been a lot of important gay voic for a while, but middle Ameri don't get to hear most of them.
HOW ‘WILL & GRACE’S’ RELATABLE VIBE HELPED AUDIENC ACCEPT GAY CHARACTERS
Will & Grace: Created by David Kohan, Max Mutchnick. Wh Eric McCormack, Debra Msg, Megan Mullally, Sean Hay. Gay lawyer Will and straight terr signer Grace share a New York Cy apartment. Their bt iends are gleeful and proud gay Jack and charismatic, filthy-rich, amoral sociale Karen." data-id="ma * will and grace gay marriage *
"Sometim, McCormack is still amazed by the reach of the gay show an era when people are very eply divid along partisan l.
""I'll keep sayg for as long as I live, " Hay said of the msage of LGBTQ equaly, addg, "I thk jt by showg Jack gettg married, we jt have to remd people that that's a real thg that happens the world, that gay people get married too. "That Hay, who was closeted to the prs durg the first n of Will & Grace, has pleted his first season as an openly gay actor has given this msage personal signifince. "This season, both Will and Jack are alg wh their own anxieti of beg gay men nearg age 50 the era of marriage equaly.
"Otherwise, he's pretty nfint, I mean nfint enough to return to theater and wre a one-man show based on the secret gay romance of Abraham Lln, and 's lled Gaybraham Twk.
‘WILL & GRACE’ FANS ARE STILL UNSURE IF ERIC MCCORMACK IS GAY REAL LIFE
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Will, he observed, is "an tertg voice the gay muny" for work TV; he is a person who has seen so many rights gaed and then has to then ask himself, What do I do now that I have all those eedoms? Will & Grace, McCormack add, is different om the rt of the televisn landspe bee picts gay love "at a certa age, or the fears of divg back , and the fears of remtg after you've gotten out of the hab of beg love.
JOE BIN: ‘WILL & GRACE’ THE TURNG POT BATE OVER GAY ‘MARRIAGE,’ RIGHTS
From Will and Grace to Morn Fay, studi show gettg to know gay characters on televisn has changed Amerins' attus toward homosexualy. One rearcher says 's an effect that uld snowball. * will and grace gay marriage *
"As much ground as the show has vered gay rights, Msg and the st members feel that even more margalized people n fd a space on Will & Grace. Official to openly endorse equal marriage rights for gay and lbian cizens.
HOW TV BROUGHT GAY PEOPLE INTO OUR HOM
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In explag his thkg, Bin creded Will & Grace — NBC’s h suatn edy about a gay man and his straight, female bt iend that ran on the work om 1998 to 2006 — as havg done more to shift public perceptn on the issue than anythg else. ” The statement was word such a way as to only endorse those stat which already offer equal rights to gay and lbian cizens. When Vice Print Joe Bin spoke out support of gay marriage Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Prs, he touted the work’s former h Will & Grace as havg done much to te people on the subject.
DID 'WILL AND GRACE' W THE GAY RIGHTS WARS?
Mutchnick went on to speculate that Bin and Print Barack Obama’s unveilg of their support for gay marriage had been “very choreographed, ” notg the Whe Hoe had rerd Bin’s remarks at the earlier event. Print to endorse gay marriage.
Earlier the week on Meet the Prs, Bin praised Will & Grace durg his own endorsement of gay marriage, remarkg: “I thk Will & Grace did more to te the Amerin public more than almost anythg anybody has done so far.