Opponent of gay marriage cannot get a
job in Hollywood, author Ben Shapiro claimed during a recent
appearance on The 700 Club to pitch his latest book
Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left
Took Over Your TV.
Shapiro's book argues that television
shows from Sesame Street to Friends push a progressive
agenda.
The conservative writer told host Pat
Robertson that Hollywood snubs opponents of gay marriage and that
television is being used to manipulate people into supporting
marriage equality.
“If you are a religious conservative,
if you're a social issues conservative, if you're anti-abortion,
specifically if you're anti-gay marriage, if you were pro-Prop 8 in
California, you will not work,” Shapiro said. “You can actually
be anti-high tax, you can actually be pro-war a little bit at this
point, but cannot be anti-gay marriage. If you are anti-gay marriage
in Hollywood, you will not get a job, it's that simple.”
Robertson, who
earlier in the year urged Maryland not to extend marriage to
“sodomites,” added that that straight actors are being forced
to play gay roles.
“What ever happened?” Robertson
lamented. “The American people overwhelmingly vote for traditional
marriage between a man and a woman, what is it with Hollywood? I
mean they are inserting gays one after another, as a matter of fact
straight actors are being forced to play gay roles.”
Shapiro argued that shows that include
LGBT characters do so not to depict their real life counterparts but
to support a political agenda.
“They create characters, friends for
you, family members for you, and then they have those people be gay
or be single mothers or pursue lifestyle choices that to which you
wouldn't agree and it makes it difficult for you to say, 'Ok, you
know, I'm anti-gay marriage but I like watching Will &
Grace.'” (The video is embedded in the right panel of this
page.)