Jesus Loves the Transgender Erotica Awards!

[GroobySteven]

http://www.charismanews.com/opinion/...ny-porn-awards

"It’s no surprise that Cosmopolitan magazine ranked 10th on Morality in Media’s annualDirty Dozen list. The metro rag uses its platform to push the pro-abortion agendaand is generally filled with R-rated smut.
(By the way, that’s why model and actress Nicole Weider went after the racy magazine in a Change.org campaign, demanding the rubbish be sold in a nontransparent wrapper to adults only. In fact, the Christian Weider said Cosmo has the devil written all over it. I wholeheartedly agree.)
Armed with that history, it may not surprise you to learn that the soft-porn publication is now touting a less-offensive name for its annual “Tranny Awards” for pornography.
Frank Kabola penned the article informing sex-charged readers of the change. “Originally a small, online-only awards show designed to celebrate transgender erotica," he writes, "it has since grown into a full awards show extravaganza, honoring models and performers in 21 categories and attracting attention from outside of the trans community. Not wanting to spread the use of what many consider a derogatory term for transgender people, creator Steven Grooby decided it was time to change the name.”
And—get this—they are changing the name to TEA, which stands for Transgender Erotica Awards and essentially mocks the conservative political tea party.
“We started the show as an online event for a bit fun and never anticipated the interest and growth of the show to become the main annual event for trans women and men in the adult industry,” says Grooby. “When we named the show the ‘Tranny Awards’ in 2007 the climate was different and the usage of the word ‘tranny’ was appropriate as a catchy title in an online porn event. While I personally believe, within the context of porn, that ‘tranny’ has its place as a descriptor in the same way many words have their place only in porn, I do understand why some people have become frustrated with its usage here.
“As we aim to be inclusive of all areas of transgender erotica and are looking to broaden the appeal of the show to mainstream media, we believed it was time to re-brand the event to the Transgender Erotica Awards—or the TEA’s. The acronym works especially well since ‘T’ is used within the community and we’re going to have some fun with the promotions (the after party, for example, will be ‘The TEA Party’). I’d like to thank the extended trans adult community for their input and feedback over the last few months. We will be producing a show that the whole transgender adult community can be proud of."
This year’s event, hosted last month at the Beyond the Stars Palace in Glendale, Calif., also saw a 25 percent jump in attendance from last year, with nearly a 300 percent increase in livestream viewership. Now, you tell me perversion isn’t rising at a rapid clip in the land. What’s a God-fearing Christian to do in the face of such rampant sexual immorality—immorality that even goes so far as to mock conservatives with its very name? We need to pray, and we need to take action.
I believe the spirit of perversion will rush in like floodwaters through a broken dam. In fact, the Holy Spirit gave me a prophetic word earlier this week before I even saw thisCosmo spot, and I’ll be sharing more about that after I’ve prayed it through. It’s important to remember that we’re not wrestling flesh and blood. Principalities, powers and other demonic forces are at play in this perversion.
We need to separate the personalities from the principalities. In other words, we need to pray that these so-called trannys and those enthralled by this perversion will come to Jesus. But we also need to stand and withstand, sound the alarm, and protect the next generation from the seeds that magazines like Cosmo are planting in young minds. God have mercy."

Wow - God have mercy!
First of all, you right-wing nutjobs didn't coin the term "A Tea Party" - even if it was a play on start of the US Independence, I believe a tea party had been around before then - as an actual, party with tea!!
As it was, the idea of naming it a Tea Party is far more "Alice in Wonderland" than trying to offend some loony tunes.
Thanks for the free publicity.

[Prospero]

Stephen is outed!!

[trish]

Hey, we all know the Devil wears Prada.

[fred41]

She sounds like the crazy vice president, Sally Langston, on the T.V. show "Scandal"...(the type that has to pray on everything)

The quoted Cosmo article is causing publicity and the awards should be bigger than ever!!!
Once again, here is the article by Frank Kobola:
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/celebrit...erotica-awards

BTW Steven, how did the article for Cosmopolitan come about?

[GroobySteven]

She sounds like the crazy vice president, Sally Langston, on the T.V. show "Scandal"...(the type that has to pray on everything)

The quoted Cosmo article is causing publicity and the awards should be bigger than ever!!!
Once again, here is the article by Frank Kobola:
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/celebrit...erotica-awards

BTW Steven, how did the article for Cosmopolitan come about?

They picked it up from our press release on the awards which I posted on the blogs, across our networks and to the industry. Bit of a win!

[scuderia]

reads like a skit

[Kevin Dong]

Christians are a funny bunch. My neighbour is a police officer, goes to church twice every weekend for mass. We are friends because he's right next door and he loves transsexuals. His whole apartment is covered in Jesus stuff, but he doesn't push it on me. Anyways he's obsessed with Canada Tgirl now. Has a membership to the site. I think it's hilarious.

[Ben in LA]

"Pray that these so-called trannys and those enthralled by this perversion will come."

Didn't they state that attendance to the show (as well as online viewing) was up? Obviously folks are coming.

Also, when we DO come, many of us shout "Oh god I'm coming!"

So there really is no need to pray...or prey...in the first place.

[Ben in LA]

I should add that Veronika Simms (the one commenting on the Cosmo article) is spot on.

[bimale69]

There was one guy in my company who I couldn't stand being around, especially when I was stuck waiting for my rig to be repaired, and I had to wit in the driver's lounge. this teapublican idiot would go ranting that anyone who wasn't white or straight, especially gays, transwomen, etc, was and "abomination" and should be "put to death" according to his "Christian" beliefs. never mind that I have a transgendered partner and one of the company's best drivers also happens to be transgender. and also not to mention that supposedly, Christ was against hate. These right-wing "Christian conservatives" are nothing but hateful fake assholes.