Fred Rogers of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood was universally loved. Liberal, conservative, Black, White, male, female, rich or poor- everyone loved him and thought he was a genuinely nice man.
Well, how little did we know.
Francois Clemmons, who played the policeman, Officer Clemmons, on the Neighborhood, evidently is a queer.
He now says that Rogers told him, early on, not to come out of the closet if he wanted to be on the show. He also advised him to get married to a woman.
This was HORRIBLE of Rogers. How dare him look down on perversion or perverts.
If there are any statues or plaques to Rogers they need to come down.
I think we will all agree.
Where is he looking down on perversions or perverts?
Clemmons wasn’t a child molester - which is a pervert.
He was just gay in a time when people weren’t allowed to be open about who they were, certainly not on a kid’s tv show.
To Rogers’ credit he gave the guy a job and didn’t just kick him to the curb.
The ultra-militant gays may be “disappointed” or “outraged” that Rogers was true to his time, but to heck with them, as well as to those who make it so difficult for gays to come out today as well.
If you judge that homosexual is not a perversion, then you are judging.
Scripturally, we are told to judge, many times. “Throw not your pearls before the swine” How are we to discern swine without judging? We can’t.
“Judge not, that you be not judged” in the original Greek reads “Condemn not that you be not condemned.” Do not judge who is going to heaven or hell. THAT is up to God.
Homosexuals are perverts. I will say it again.
Could the late Fred Rogers have been expressing the Christian viewpoint and advice for those attracted to members of the same sex? Christian faith teaches that when tempted by sin, Jesus resisted.
Human beings are taught by Christians to resist temptation and properly channel the sexual desire: