Kirk Camera Slams the Grammys; Pimps own Movie as Savior
On the 26th
of January, the night of the annual Grammy Awards a large political statement
on the gay marriage debate was made during the show when the Grammy’s hosted a
mass wedding, which included same sex couples. In the event there were 34 couples, both
straight and gay exchanging rings and saying their “I do” as Queen Latifah,
sworn temporarily as commissioner by the state of California officiated the
event while it was during the performance of Macklemore
& Ryan Lewis, who performed their song, “Same Love” which is seemingly
known as an anthem for same sex couples. Many people praised the event and the
Grammys for making such a statement, others found the event to simply be a
publicity stunt and as one would expect, many people from everyday citizens to
news reporters and politicians found the event to be distasteful and were
outrage that such a thing had occurred. Of
those angered by the event was actor turned Christian activist, Kirk Cameron.
Cameron had taken to Facebook to voice his displeasure toward the event while
also promoting his faith based movie, “Mercy Rule.” In the post Cameron stated
that the wedding event was an “assault on the traditional family,” that “last
night, the lines were drawn thick and dark Now more than ever, we must work
together to create the world we want for our children” and that his movie would
be help to “strengthen families.” The article
above criticizes Cameron and his recent criticism and self-promotion.
When it comes to the topic
of the LGBT community I often find myself indifferent towards the topic in
general but feel no qualms about the subject. I feel as though that people are
free to marry whoever they want whether it is someone of different sex or not
because if they truly feel love towards their partners then who to tell them
they are wrong for it and there is really no real valid reason as to why one
should oppose it. The Article written by L.A. Ross, amusingly
titled “Kirk Cameron Slams Grammys’ Gay Weddings; Pimps Own Movie as Savior to
‘Traditional Family’ seems to make fun of Cameron and seems to imply that Cameron
is using the event to hype up his own movie. The first hint of Ross’ mockery is
with the title where it gives off a feeling of sarcasm. Another sign would be
when Ross mentions Cameron older movie, “Fireproof” and mockingly brings up how
that movie had “restored marriages”, which it did not. Ross also criticizes how
Cameron made no mention of how the marriage equality was connected to subject
of his movie and also made no mention of opening performance of Grammys which
include the married couple of Beyonce and Jay-Z that affirmed marriage. I find
Ross criticisms and his act of mocking to be very valid as Kirk Cameron was
very off the mark regarding his narrow-minded comments about the event as he
tried to promote his own movie while criticizing the Grammys support of
marriage equality.
