‘The Chosen’ faces calls for boycott after director, actors defend LGBT ‘pride’ flags on set

[Michie]

The hit TV show defended 'pride' flags on set, and multiple actors blasted conservative Christians online, sparking a wave of outrage among fans.


(LifeSiteNews) — The Chosen is facing widespread boycott calls after the show’s director and several actors defended the presence of LGBT “pride” flags on set.

Last month, the popular Christian-themed TV series released a promotional video with behind-the-scenes footage revealing a “pride” flag on the set of the show. A cameraman can also be seen wearing a rainbow flag in the video.

Pressed about the video, the official Twitter account of The Chosen posted a statement saying that the show “will work with anyone,” without apologizing for the flags or reaffirming biblical morality.

“Just like with our hundreds of cast and crew who have different beliefs (or no belief at all) than we do, we will work with anyone on our show who helps us portray or honor the authentic Jesus,” the statement reads. “We ask that audiences let the show speak for itself and focus on the message, not the messenger, because we’ll always let you down.”

The response failed to satisfy many fans, who blasted The Chosen for allowing employees to promote homosexuality and transgenderism on set.

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'The Chosen' faces calls for boycott after director, actors defend LGBT 'pride' flags on set - LifeSite

The hit TV show defended 'pride' flags on set, and multiple actors blasted conservative Christians online, sparking a wave of outrage among fans.

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[Divide]

I saw that and I knew exactly what that is. That's one guy veing sneaky and trying to stir things up for the show.

There's nothing wrong with the show and it is very accurate! This is an attack on the show and means nothing.

 

[JimR-OCDS]

As a fan of The Chosen, I'll take what Lifesitenews reports about it with a grain
of salt.

 

[Michie]

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‘We are not a church’: The Chosen’s director addresses controversy over LGBT pride flag on setThe director and creator of The Chosen’s popular Christian

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Actors who star in the series The Chosen have responded to online criticism of the appearance of an LGBT pride flag on set, suggesting that a commenter calling for a boycott is homophobic and no fans

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[JimR-OCDS]

Watch the video on this site where producer and director, Dallas Jenkins explains what actually happened.

 

[chevyontheriver]

The hit TV show defended 'pride' flags on set, and multiple actors blasted conservative Christians online, sparking a wave of outrage among fans.


(LifeSiteNews) — The Chosen is facing widespread boycott calls after the show’s director and several actors defended the presence of LGBT “pride” flags on set.

Last month, the popular Christian-themed TV series released a promotional video with behind-the-scenes footage revealing a “pride” flag on the set of the show. A cameraman can also be seen wearing a rainbow flag in the video.

Pressed about the video, the official Twitter account of The Chosen posted a statement saying that the show “will work with anyone,” without apologizing for the flags or reaffirming biblical morality.

“Just like with our hundreds of cast and crew who have different beliefs (or no belief at all) than we do, we will work with anyone on our show who helps us portray or honor the authentic Jesus,” the statement reads. “We ask that audiences let the show speak for itself and focus on the message, not the messenger, because we’ll always let you down.”

The response failed to satisfy many fans, who blasted The Chosen for allowing employees to promote homosexuality and transgenderism on set.

Continued below.

'The Chosen' faces calls for boycott after director, actors defend LGBT 'pride' flags on set - LifeSite

The hit TV show defended 'pride' flags on set, and multiple actors blasted conservative Christians online, sparking a wave of outrage among fans.

www.lifesitenews.com

OK. So they aren't corporately flying that flag. But the camerathem is, and I'm sure they does have an acute sense of placement for maximum effect. In other words, they wanted controversy and they finally got controversy. Mission accomplished.

I think it's great that the business entity that produces 'The Chosen' allows freedom of expression. But they got used in the process. That camerathem abused the tolerance provided and did (deliberate) real damage to the business. It should be a cause to let that camerathem go.

Whoever filmed the promotional video (The same camerathem?) maybe should also maybe be let go.

It's not like the business is promoting immoral things. But they got used. Unwittingly, by deliberate subversives.

 

[mourningdove~]

Watch the video on this site where producer and director, Dallas Jenkins explains what actually happened.

I appreciate your sharing the video.
And I appreciate the effort the producer has taken, to explain.
Best to hear straight from him ...

 

[SavedByGrace3]

As with all of this "pride" movement across our culture, it is about normalization and acceptance.
If this is accepted and becomes the norm, this nation will literally be Sodom and Gomorrah, probably before 2050.

Genesis 19:4 ISV
4. Before they could lay down, all the men of Sodom and its outskirts, both young and old, surrounded the house.

The floodgates will open. All from young to old will be infected. Even believers who choose to not come out from among them will be vexed in their souls to the extent they will offer their own children up to the sex crazed mobs.
Of course most people will not believe this. Most do not understand human nature, how perverse it is and suspectable it is to the reprobate mindset. If you are not a believer and will not separate yourself from this culture, you will be defenseless to this process of degradation. A society will revert to brute beasts.
So it behooves us to resist these inch by inch, thought by thought perversions. Yes we will be hated for it. But we knew that would happen. Persecution comes because of the name of Jesus, the Word, and righteousness. So, yes, let them know loud and long how we reject these actions, regardless of how small and seemingly harmless. Death by a thousand cuts is still death.

 

[Raika]

I can't support the chosen anymore. The Bible is against this kind of sin.. and the actors are showing pure ignorance by supporting this kind of culture.

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[JimR-OCDS]

I can't support the chosen anymore. The Bible is against this kind of sin.. and the actors are showing pure ignorance by supporting this kind of culture.

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Watch the video by Dallas Jinkens, the producer of The Chosen.

In no way does he or the actors support the LGBTQ movement.

 

[Gnarwhal]

True controversy or not, I never really needed a reason not to watch it anyway. As a former evangelical, I just as a rule don't trust anything produced by them or the broader protestant world. I know what's out there, I left it for a reason (it's false, Catholicism's true). I appreciate that Jonathan Roumie is a Catholic but he's not the one writing the story, he's just the lead actor, he doesn't have much of a say over the theology that is embedded into the dialogue. I don't want to chance some sort of invisible heresy subconsciously taking root in my heart because The Chosen is entertaining.

Even though this incident doesn't seem to have been within an official capacity of the production, it's nevertheless indicative of evangelicalism's nature.

 

[JimR-OCDS]

True controversy or not, I never really needed a reason not to watch it anyway. As a former evangelical, I just as a rule don't trust anything produced by them or the broader protestant world. I know what's out there, I left it for a reason (it's false, Catholicism's true). I appreciate that Jonathan Roumie is a Catholic but he's not the one writing the story, he's just the lead actor, he doesn't have much of a say over the theology that is embedded into the dialogue. I don't want to chance some sort of invisible heresy subconsciously taking root in my heart because The Chosen is entertaining.

Even though this incident doesn't seem to have been within an official capacity of the production, it's nevertheless indicative of evangelicalism's nature.

So you admit you never saw The Chosen?

If this is the case, you really don't know what it says.

BTW, I've heard nothing but positive about The Chosen from priests who actually watched it.

Once Upon a Friar on YouTube, the two Franciscans review each episode and give positive commentary
about it.

 

[Wolseley]

The whole homosexual / transgender swamp has become so hyper-analyzed that everything becomes a major "for" or "against" controversy.

A six-year old kid could overindulge in Froot Loops, and when he throws up a stomachful of rainbow-colored mush on the sidewalk, somebody would be right there claiming it's proof that the parents hate gays and is teaching the kid to be hostile to them.

I watch "The Chosen" and I think it's superlative; it doesn't have a thing to do with supporting the Pink Mafia. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if somebody unaffiliated with the show paid the cameraman to wear the rainbow button and make sure it got photographed, then made a big to-do about it, with the hopes of turning people against the show and thereby stifling its message.

Satan is endlessly creative and active in his manipulations to damage the Church and to harm Christians. If he can get a boycott going over a trifle and thereby install doubt in people's minds, its completely a coup for him.

 

[Gnarwhal]

So you admit you never saw The Chosen?

If this is the case, you really don't know what it says.

BTW, I've heard nothing but positive about The Chosen from priests who actually watched it.

Once Upon a Friar on YouTube, the two Franciscans review each episode and give positive commentary
about it.

I wasn't responding to you Jim, and I didn't ask for your input. No I haven't watched it and I never claimed to. I haven't eaten turds either but I don't need to in order to know it's not a healthy or enjoyable experience. As a rule of thumb for my own life, I do not consume protestant/evangelical content. Period. I consumed it for 27 years, it clogged my spiritual arteries, and after my religious quadruple bypass conversion I'm on a strict diet of content that's created exclusively by Catholics, for Catholics.

And I'm not in the habit of using the Once Upon a Friar as a barometer for orthodoxy, Franciscans in my experience are 50-50. Half of them are orthodox and the other half are Jesuits in brown habits.

 

[JimR-OCDS]

I wasn't responding to you Jim, and I didn't ask for your input. No I haven't watched it and I never claimed to. I haven't eaten turds either but I don't need to in order to know it's not a healthy or enjoyable experience. As a rule of thumb for my own life, I do not consume protestant/evangelical content. Period. I consumed it for 27 years, it clogged my spiritual arteries, and after my religious quadruple bypass conversion I'm on a strict diet of content that's created exclusively by Catholics, for Catholics.

And I'm not in the habit of using the Once Upon a Friar as a barometer for orthodoxy, Franciscans in my experience are 50-50. Half of them are orthodox and the other half are Jesuits in brown habits.

You posted on a public forum, no need for a nasty response.

 

[Michie]

I wasn't responding to you Jim, and I didn't ask for your input. No I haven't watched it and I never claimed to. I haven't eaten turds either but I don't need to in order to know it's not a healthy or enjoyable experience. As a rule of thumb for my own life, I do not consume protestant/evangelical content. Period. I consumed it for 27 years, it clogged my spiritual arteries, and after my religious quadruple bypass conversion I'm on a strict diet of content that's created exclusively by Catholics, for Catholics.

And I'm not in the habit of using the Once Upon a Friar as a barometer for orthodoxy, Franciscans in my experience are 50-50. Half of them are orthodox and the other half are Jesuits in brown habits.

I just heard on a Christian station the other day that this whole validation thing is very dangerous as it compromises the faith. We can validate sin or disorders all day long but it just seems to put a foot in the door for all sorts of confusion. It does not mean we do not acknowledge those struggling but it’s not an invitation to celebrate something that goes against the Faith. There is enough waffling these days, why not just live the faith without shame? A rare thing now but what is wrong with that? What’s next? Flags for whatever is under the sun? Should we put them up too? I don’t think so. Imagine reading that in Scripture… lol

Great idea to make a popular series concerning Christianity and then putting whatever flag up for every predilection. Who did that come from??

 

[chevyontheriver]

I can't support the chosen anymore. The Bible is against this kind of sin.. and the actors are showing pure ignorance by supporting this kind of culture.

I'm wondering if you have also dropped your support for all the corporations that are more blatant than 'The Chosen' in supporting sin. I get it. We have to stand up. How have you stood up aside from dropping support of 'The Chosen'?

 

[Gnarwhal]

I just heard on a Christian station the other day that this whole validation thing is very dangerous as it compromises the faith. We can validate sin or disorders all day long but it just seems to put a foot in the door for all sorts of confusion. It does not mean we do not acknowledge those struggling but it’s not an invitation to celebrate something that goes against the Faith. There is enough waffling these days, why not just live the faith without shame? A rare thing now but what is wrong with that? What’s next? Flags for whatever is under the sun? Should we put them up too? I don’t think so. Imagine reading that in Scripture… lol

Great idea to make a popular series concerning Christianity and then putting whatever flag up for every predilection. Who did that come from??

Right it's a slippery slope. I think of Saint Paul VI near the end (or just after) Vatican II, he said "the smoke of Satan has entered the Church" ... when I see broader and broader acceptance of secular or protestant/evangelical things be it entertainment like this show or incorporating their worship elements into the Mass, I just think of that quote. People think it's all hunky dory cause "eVaNgElIcAlS aRe ChRiStIaNs ToO" but they're rife with error and that error can seep in from the tiniest of foot holds if we allow them to be taken.

When it comes to secular stuff it's even worse because it's even more conspicuous that it's origins are demonic. Especially when it comes to sodomy or abortion or drug use or gender abominations or any number of other things that the world worships.

 

[Wolseley]

I wasn't responding to you Jim, and I didn't ask for your input.

You posted on a public forum, no need for a nasty response.

Come on, guys----we put up with enough strife fighting with "Them"; there's no need for us as fellow Catholics to fight with each other in here.

If you like the show, great; if you don't, don't watch it. Simple.

I'm not trying to be snotty or pushy; it's just that I care about both of you and I consider you both to be my good friends. Pax.

 

[JimR-OCDS]

Come on, guys----we put up with enough strife fighting with "Them"; there's no need for us as fellow Catholics to fight with each other in here.

If you like the show, great; if you don't, don't watch it. Simple.

I'm not trying to be snotty or pushy; it's just that I care about both of you and I consider you both to be my good friends. Pax.

I'm not fighting. Just replied with the fact that this is a public forum.