Kirk Cameron: Homosexuality is unnatural, detrimental, destructive to foundations of civilization

[Amerigo Vespucci]

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation is taking on the 1980s sitcom actor for comments Cameron made to CNN’s Piers Morgan.

Morgan asked the former Growing Pains star and evangelical Christian if he thought homosexuality was a sin. “I think that it’s unnatural,” Cameron replied on Friday’s Piers Morgan Tonight. “I think that it’s detrimental, and ultimately destructive to so many of the foundations of civilization.”

Cameron was also asked about gay marriage:“I believe marriage was defined by God,” Cameron said. “Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the Garden between Adam and Eve. One man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don’t think anyone else should either. So do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don’t.”

GLAAD shot back: “In this interview, Kirk Cameron sounds even more dated than his 1980s TV character,” said Herndon Graddick, Senior Director of Programs at GLAAD. “Cameron is out of step with a growing majority of Americans … with an increasing number of states recognizing marriage equality, Americans are seeing that marriage is about committed couples who want to make a lifelong promise to take care of and be responsible for each other and that gay and lesbian couples need equal security and legal protections. That’s not ‘redefining’ anything.”

http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/03/03/glaad-kirk-cameron/

[Justice wanted]

1. NOW HE'S Getting in on this bull crap.

[LiberalFighter]

50. He's been in it for a long time. Totally demented.

[nanabugg]

63. Except that homosexuality has been practiced by every "civilized" nation since time began. nt

[BiggJawn]

2. Banana. Gawd's Perfect Food... n/t

[Javaman]

47. +1

[msanthrope]

54. For all those who don't get the reference....

[Fumesucker]

3. Cameron is a lying ssssnake...

[jsmirman]

10. Please don't post her videos

I get overwhelmed by her awesomeness and start to feel bad about not being an atheist.

[mmonk]

14. She chews him up and spits him out in tiny pieces. It's a hoot.

And I don't necessarily care what people believe as long as religion and science remain separate in our public educational institutions.

[crimsonblue]

15. wow

my relatives that live in Colorado Springs are exactly like Kirk Cameron...

[Odin2005]

41. I think I'm in LUV!!!

[LiberalFighter]

51. Damn she is hot! Bet she is brave too.

Brave enough to stomp on that lying snake physically. If she and Kirk ever met up Kirk would end up with his prick crawling back up into his vagina.

[RKP5637]

4. I'm sooo fed up with this damn bullshit fostered by the creepy side of christianity. They

represent all the bad things about christianity trying to drown out the good side of christianity. Not all christians are this why, why are people like this given a free pass to spout bullshit.

[onehandle]

5. He seems so bothered by homosexuality.

Hot and bothered.

[LiberalFighter]

52. What does he have to say about homosexualtiy in nature?

A new female dog I got kept trying to hump my older female dog.

[mysuzuki2]

6. He was an actor on a not very good 1980s sitcom.

That certainly makes him an authority on sexual orientation and marriage. Not! Why do we think we need to listen to someone just because they are or used to be on TV in the movies or on the radio.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

8. In "real life"...

...he reportedly had issues with Playboy Playmate Julie McCullough playing his "love interest" because...well, because she was a Playmate.

Julie McCullough landed the role of nanny Julie Costello on the television show Growing Pains in 1989. She appeared in eight episodes until she was fired in 1990, which allegedly stemmed from series star Kirk Cameron's conversion to evangelical Christianity, a conversion that, according to The E! True Hollywood Story episode focusing on the show, served to alienate him from his fellow cast members, as he did not invite any of them to his wedding. Though Cameron reports that he did not call for her to be fired in his 2008 autobiography Still Growing, and the show's producers have claimed that Julie's character was never intended to be a permanent character, the long-told story is that Cameron called for McCullough's termination because of his objections to her having posed nude in Playboy, accusing the show's producers of promoting pornography. A decade later, Cameron apologized to his TV family for some of his prior behavior due to his lack of maturity. He reportedly did not reconcile with McCullough, however, who claims that Cameron refused to speak to her during a later encounter, and who remains critical of him, stating that she lost a lot from the public criticism she endured from the controversy. Although McCullough herself is Catholic, she has criticized the evangelical television programming Cameron has produced, which she has viewed on one occasion, saying on her MySpace page:

“He thinks if I read science books that I'm going to hell. I would rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints ... the sinners are much more fun. And a lot more interesting than some book-burner who is still having growing pains. I am at peace with God. Kirk thinks people like me are going to Hell, if I do then at least I'll go well informed and well read.”

After the Growing Pains scandal, McCullough made several television appearances on Beverly Hills, 90210, Jake and the Fatman, Harry and the Hendersons and Drexell's Class.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_McCullough#Growing_Pains

[warrior1]

7. I love her

[Initech]

9. Is he still relevant?

I will trash that movie Fireproof he made every chance I get - what a piece of crap - nothing but 2 hours of right wing Xtian propaganda fluff that would make Goebbels proud.

[Javaman]

48. as much as willie aames is... LOL

[Initech]

56. OMG!!!

Sometimes I wonder if the hardcore fundies really do live on another plane of existence. Do they really see entertainment value in this crap?

[JHB]

58. Yes, they do. Well, to the first question, anyway...

To the second, they rate "entertainment value" pretty low. The important thing is to drive home the "bible-based" moral lesson with a sledgehammer.

I think the most appalling thing is the constant need for collective, outside reinforcement of their beliefs. It's like they have no faith in their own faith.

[Dawson Leery]

11. Did Ayatollah Cameron endorse his Fellow Ayatollah, Santorum by any chance?

[GoCubsGo]

12. Kirk who?

Why does anyone give a shit what this talentless has-been think?

[smirkymonkey]

49. Thank you!

K&R

[saras]

13. Tell it to the swans, the caribou, the dolphins (just TRY and tell it to the dolphins!)

[Rex]

16. Kirk Cameron? How does he find time to get on

the air between his drive thru job at Mc Donald and his acting coach, 'do YOU want fries with that?' 'DO you want fries what that?' "Fries, do you want them?"

I hear that takes all day.

[nobodyspecial]

17. "One man, one woman for life till death do you part."

So, when does he begin his public campaign against divorce and extramarital affairs? When does Congress start banning divorce? Condemning affairs?

[newspeak]

29. ummm, kirk

I think you might look where there is the highest rate of divorce and who's divorcing. Homosexuality has been around for thousands of years and hey, I see we got more than enough of "be fruitful and multiply."

I think those who don't respect their partners, domestic violence and treating your partner like chattel, destroys the bonds of matrimony. But, keep your head up in the clouds-it's all of those gay people destroying families.

[Initech]

35. Have you seen that movie Fireproof he was in?

Holy crap is that movie bad - it's 2 hours of melodramatic propaganda fluff that would make Goebbels go .

[TeamsterDem]

18. Seems like he confused homosexuality with conservatism

for the latter is perfectly described by those adjectives

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. Son just because you believe the world

is 6000 years old, and there was a garden, does not make it so.

Marriage is a modern day invention, and 8,000 years is modern when counting all hominid lines going back four million years.

I know...science.

What is the name for what your ilk want? (don't care what religion, I can't stand fundies, period)... Oh yes starts with a t...

[LiberalFighter]

55. I'm wondering how if there was nothing in the beginning

how god could be there?

[HughBeaumont]

20. He's just one really bizarre hateful fucker, isn't he?

It's not GAY marriage, it's MARRIAGE, asshole. We don't buy gay cars or eat gay lunches or get gay citizenships.

[treestar]

21. These people don't even do logic

If what he said is true, why is civilization still around? Gawd, these people are dumb.

[eShirl]

22. Did he never read the Old Testament?

one man and one woman
lol

[Withywindle]

25. I know, right?

One man and his two daughters. Hey, he'd already offered them up to a rapacious mob - better they get raped than some men, right?

One man, his wife, and her servant.

One man, his several hundred wives and concubines and someone else's wife too.

One woman, an angel, the Holy Spirit, and some other dude, and oh wait, HER mother was somehow "immaculate" too? Oh wait, that's New Testament. Still pretty kinky.


Let's just leave David and Jonathan out of this. They actually seemed like a relatively healthy happy couple by Biblical standards.

[dickthegrouch]

27. It's three men and one woman by my count!

Every KKKristian's dream.

I love asking KKKristians where human number 5 came from.

[KamaAina]

23. KamaAina: Lousy sitcoms are unnatural, detrimental, destructive to foundations of civilization

Who the hell cast his sorry ass in the first place?

[The Genealogist]

24. Kirk: get back to us when you figure out how that banana works

Kirk Cameron is a sad little has-been who never was. He has made it his life-long work to be willfully ignorant, and to bring others into the fold of willful ignorance. Willful ignorance is "detrimental, and ultimately destructive to so many of the foundations of civilization," not marriage.

[Swede Atlanta]

26. Who cares what "nobody" thinks...

Me thinks he has had more gay sex in his lower parts than he wants the rest of us to know. The most rabid anti-gay men are usually in serious denial of their sexuality against which they have been fighting. I would say I had empathy for him if his hateful, unchristian statements didn't have the potential to harm others.

He needs serious psychological help but I doubt he will seek that. Instead he will dance with snakes the pretend to make love to his female companion.

[NorthCarolina]

28. I suspect a massive case of self denial going on with Kirk. nt

[FarLeftFist]

30. Kirk Cameron, Rush Limbaugh, Birth Control, what is this 1986 again?

[HughBeaumont]

44. That's what it's all about with them - straight back to the Reagan 80s!

The Republican Party are what we like to call "early peakers". We just keep moving forward . . . they stay the same way and want to get even WORSE. They would have, if it wasn't for that meddling CLINTON!

[MrScorpio]

31. The gentleman doth protests too much nt

[Johonny]

32. Kirk Cameron and Victoria Jackson are funnier now than when on TV

if only it was an act

[maddezmom]

33. +1000

[BlueIris]

34. Stow it, Kirkles. Your gay friends and neighbors are a fundamental part of all civilization.

Ass. I am so tired of this guy. Don't understand why he gets any attention.

[Eid Ma Clack Shaw]

36. Blind Gossip Item...

http://blindgossip.com/?p=39111

Hmm!

[ibegurpard]

37. oh who cares what this has-been thinks

[JNathanK]

38. The ancient Greeks created civilization, and they were pretty gay.

n/t

[VenusRising]

39. Take the word homosexuality out of the title of the OP

Kirk Cameron is unnatural, detrimental, destructive to foundations of civilization

There....that's better, and at least more accurate.

[alp227]

40. Why does CNN give air time to irrelevant bigots like Cameron?

Let me know when Thom Hartmann, Randi Rhodes, Norman Goldman, or Mike Malloy ever appear on Piers Morgan to discuss political issues instead of the typical party line robots whether in the (D) or (R) party. (Rhodes has hilariously called Morgan "Pierce Brosnan", referring to the James Bond actor, funny reference since both Piers/Pierce are from the British Isles.) Or when Richard Dawkins, James Randi, or PZ Myers are on to criticize religion/superstitious belief instead of hacks like Cameron preaching in primetime. Geez, Morgan is nothing more than a corporate ass kisser instead of a real interviewer. That's why I prefer PBS interview shows Tavis Smiley and Charlie Rose.

[marmar]

42. Piers Morgan is really picking through the clearance bin for guests these days.

nt

[xchrom]

43. yes, gay people have contributed nothing to civilization and are a threat

http://www.lambda.org/famous.htm

Alexander the Great
*Macedonian Ruler, 300 B.C.
Socrates
*Greek Philosopher, 400 B.C.
Sappho
*Greek Woman Poet, 600 B.C.
Hadrian
*Roman Emperor, 1st-2nd c.
Richard the Lionhearted
*English King, 12th c.
Saladin
*Sultan of Egypt and Syria
Desiderius Erasmus
*Dutch Monk, Philosopher
Francis Bacon
*English statesman, author
Frederick the Great
*King of Prussia
Lord Byron
*English poet, 18th c.
Walt Whitman
*U.S. poet, author, 19th c.
Oscar Wilde
*Irish author, 19th c.
Marcel Proust
*French author, 20th c.
Colette
*French author, 20th c.
Gertrude Stein
*U.S. poet, author, 20th c.
Alice B. Toklas
*U.S. author, 20th c.
Federico Garcia Lorca
*Spanish author, 20th c.
Cole Porter
*U.S. composer, 20th c.
Virginia Woolf
*English author, 20th c.
Leonard Bernstein
*U.S. composer, 20th c.
Pope Julius III
*1550-1555
T.E. Lawrence
*English soldier, author, 20th c.
Jean Cocteau
*French writer, director, 20th c.
Charles Laughton
*English actor, 20th c.
Marguerite Yourcenar
*Belgian author, 20th c.



*** it goes on

[Amerigo Vespucci]

45. The video, now on YouTube:

[Arugula Latte]

46. How can you argue with someone who is ignorant enough to believe that Adam & Eve

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were literally the first two people on Earth? Seriously, how f@#$ing stupid do you have to be to buy that?

[piratefish08]

53. kirk cameron says one boy, one girl and something about a banana.......

[JHB]

59. ...and Banana Splits.

Because a real, bible-based marriage needs a quartet of Hannah-Barbera animals to keep it wholesome.



What? It's no stranger than anything else he's done in the last 20 years.

[Jennicut]

57. Kirk Cameron was relevant when I was 10 years old.

I am 36 now. I doubt anyone cares what this hateful has-been has to say.

[Taverner]

60. Fuck him and his Jesus....

[Amerigo Vespucci]

61. "Growing Pains" Star Tracy Gold: Kirk Cameron is DEAD WRONG on Gay Rights

'GROWING PAINS' STAR

Kirk Cameron is DEAD WRONG on Gay Rights

http://www.tmz.com/2012/03/05/tracey-gold-kirk-cameron-gay-piers-morgan-growing-pains/?adid=hero4#.T1VoT4cge2o



Tracey Gold is neither sharing the laughter nor the love with her former "Growing Pains" co-star Kirk Cameron after he blasted gay people on CNN.

Gold went to her Twitter page last night ... and posted, "I am a strong supporter of the #LGBT Community, and I believe in equal rights for all. #NOH8 #LOVE."

In fact, the image on Gold's Twitter page is a photo from the pro-gay rights NOH8 campaign.

As we previously reported, Kirk ignited a firestorm Friday night when he appeared on "Piers Morgan" and said, "I think (homosexuality is) ... unnatural. I think that it's detrimental, and ultimately destructive to so many of the foundations of civilization."

[BlueIris]

62. Good for her for speaking out. Kirk Cameron is vile. nt