Exgay activist Darryl L. Foster will appear on Lee Strobel’s Faith Under Fire program Saturday evening, Nov. 20, on PAX TV. He will debate gay parenting. From the web site:
"The controversy surrounding gay marriage and parenting is a polarizing issue for people of faith. Debating the issue are Darryl Foster, who lived single and gay for 11 years but is now married with four children and pastors a church in Atlanta, and Jeff Lutes, a family psychotherapist who with his gay partner started a family by adopting a son four years ago. Both Darryl and Jeff self-identify as Christians."
PAX TV – 10 PM EST & PST; 9 PM CST & MST
(Hat tip: Brett K.)
Boy are thoose two going into the lion’s den on that one…
Will this show be available online somewhere? Watching it directly would be a bit difficult since I live in Sweden and don’t have a tv.
Yea, someone here should record and seed it on bit torrent. :p
PAX TV is run by a religious conservative (I would characterize him as a wacko). This isn’t a surprise.
BTW, it should also come as no surprise that Foster is doing a bit of advertising to go on this program.
“seed it on bit torrent” ??? what’s that mean?
BitTorrent, as I understand it, is like Napster once was — but instead of “sharing” music files, live content such as broadcast video is “shared.”
Xeno is suggesting that we set up a bootleg video network. 🙂
I would hope that somebody would e-mail some of DL Foster’s choice statements on this website.
We’ve all seen him lose it on the Internet, I can’t wait to see how he does face to face. DL is not the kind of person the “ex-gay” movement wants to get on camera.
I’d also say that Stephen Bennett isn’t going to do much good for the “ex-gay” cause either. His O’Reilly rant was priceless.
If you notice, the more moderate faces of the “ex-gay” movement don’t do debates, they do press releases. Randy stopped posting here when the questions got too hard and even closed down comments on his blog when the questions were taken directly to him.
I’ve watched “Faith Under Fire” on several occasions having been directed there from comments on another mailing list. I have to say the show isn’t that bad. It’s about as “fair and balanced” as TV journalism gets these days.
Now, you can make the argument that there -is- no argument to be made — having an Ex-Gay person on to argue with parents of gay children is more an exercise in theater than in education and I’d pretty well grant your point.
Given though that PAX is seen in “those red states” and a good many of the rural folk in those states have limited exposure to Gay issues — still, in this day and age — they get props for brining the issues up. Lee Strobel, the fundie running the show, doesn’t really expound a fundie message at the end, rather lets people do their own arguing and draw their own conclusions.
That’s more than can be said for The O’Reily factor…
I’d be interested to hear anyone’s thoughts on this. I found it amusing that Rev. Foster was all smiles and making nice considering how he acts online, but at least this didn’t disolve into a screaming match ala O’Reilly. One of the first assertions Foster made was that he wasn’t there to challenge anyone’s Christianity, but it didn’t take long for it to become clear that he was after exactly that. He adamantly claimed that “change” was a trademark of Christianity, challenging Jeff Lutes to explain how change figured into his life as a Christian. It’s the kind of arguing that defines the terms in order to trap one’s opponent. I think the tactic paid off – I don’t remember exactly what Lutes said, but I remember his answer not being particularly satisfying, but in his defense Foster kept interrupting him at that point.
Considering the segment was set up as a debate about gay parenting, very little attention was given to that subject. Foster was ill-equipped to argue that matter. He stated that there had been no studies concluding gay parenting was a healthy thing. When Jeff Lutes immediately pointed one out Foster had nothing to do but change the subject. He had very little to offer other than the “this is not what God intended” argument.
I appreciated that host Lee Strobel offered very little spin – he let his guests comments stand on their own.