ProFamily Leader Dismayed to See NHL in League With Homosexual Agenda

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TBN's Acquisition Of 'Holy Land Experience' Theme Park Seeks To Change More Lives

June 9, 2007 ORLANDO -- Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), the world's largest religious broadcaster and America's most-watched faith channel, hopes to change more lives through its addition of the "Holy Land Experience" theme park in Orlando, Fl., to the TBN family. Through the acquisition, TBN will bring an integration of the powerful living recreation of ancient Jerusalem with a cutting edge facility that will be used for television production, dramas, musical concerts, special events and movies.

"This marriage will bring an unprecedented synergy to both ministries and the production that is done there will be seen by a worldwide audience. TBN's involvement made sense, because both ministries are about changing and effecting people's lives. We've been doing that for 34 years," said Paul Crouch, Jr., TBN Vice President of Administration. "We believe this opportunity was heaven sent because it bought TBN an Orlando-based facility to fulfill it's local programming obligations for WGTL CH-52 and it will provide "The Holy Land Experience" with much needed promotion to bring more people to the theme park and Orlando as a whole."

The Holy Land Experience could well be considered Orlando's most inspiring destination as visitors experience a full day of discovery that takes them 2,000 years back in time to the world of the Bible. It brings to life ancient Israel as a unique, thriving world filled with fascinating exhibits and venues. Visitors learn about the Wilderness Tabernacle and the Great Temple; discover the amazing history of the Bible; explore the city of Jerusalem in miniature; see re-enactments of Jesus' ministry, His life, death, and resurrection; and feel the power and passion of our original musical productions.

WGTL TV, Channel 52, has a reach of over four million viewers in the Orlando and Cocoa Beach metropolitan areas with TBN's wide range of innovative faith-based programming. In October of 2006, TBN celebrated the inaugural broadcast of WGTL Ch-52 in Orlando with a dedicatory service attended by TBN founders Paul and Jan Crouch, Pastor Benny Hinn, Singer and Preacher Judy Jacobs hosted by Pastor George Cope and Calvary Assembly in Winter Park, Fl.

The combination of the production facilities and the Holy Land Experience offers Orlando visitors a powerful and unique faith based experience that can be promoted worldwide through the TBN network. The promotional capability can drive visitors to the complex.

"Some of the staff was asking what is going to be the immediate effect here at the park and my answer was 'I'm planning on you having more people coming through the turnstiles this summer,'" said Crouch. "Universal Studios does the same thing. We want the 'Holy Land Experience' to be a faith-based version of that."

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ProFamily Leader Dismayed to See NHL in League With Homosexual Agenda

2006-11-29 -- WDC Media News --

(AgapePress) - A pro-family leader is wondering who's minding the net for the National Hockey League, given its support for a homosexual movie that features an 11-year-old drag queen.

The Toronto Maple Leafs and the NHL have given permission for their logos to be used in a forthcoming Canadian film called Breakfast With Scot, which portrays a former Leafs team member who wants to publicly announce his homosexuality. In the movie, the ex-hockey player lives with a same-sex partner, who is the Toronto team's lawyer, and their adopted son, who is described as "a budding queen of an 11-year-old boy."

Breakfast With Scot, the movie, is an adaptation of the eponymous 1999 novel by Michael Downing, who has also adapted the book for the stage. Now, as the story of two homosexual parents and their adopted drag-queen son comes to the screen, one conservative media watchdog is raising concerns about the National Hockey League's apparent support for the project.

Bob Knight, director of the Culture and Media Institute at the Virginia-based Media Research Center, believes NHL officials are unlikely to win any more fans for the League by endorsing this homosexual-themed movie. "They're going to alienate many, many people who take their kids to hockey games," he says. "The NHL has had enough problems in recent years packing their arenas, and this is not going to help them at all."

Bob Knight

In allowing its logos and name to be used in Breakfast With Scot, League decision-makers have chosen to "side with a very radical movement," Knight contends. And they have done so "in a manner that shows they fear the power of the media elite and their homosexual allies more than they do their own fans," he adds.

The Culture and Media Institute spokesman says he is surprised representatives of a sport widely associated with masculine character, toughness and integrity would let their organization's image be used to promote homosexuality or a "weird sexual aberration" like the transgender movement.

"You've got the NHL, which is the epitome of masculinity, being used to try to validate first the homosexual relationship and then extending it to transgenderism," Knight asserts. However, the culture and media analyst suggests, this is typical of the tactics used in liberal activism.

"What the left tries to do is use symbols that we respect and admire and transfer their moral capital to something that's weird and destructive like homosexual behavior," Knight observes. "This movie seems to have all of that," he says.

James Hartline, a former homosexual turned Christian activist, suggests that the National Hockey League's decision to, in effect, endorse the movie Breakfast with Scot is not a single departure from form but an indication of the League's current direction. He says the NHL "is now becoming a willing partner with the fringe elements of the radicalized homosexual agenda."

Jim Brown, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.

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