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To: KLP who wrote (154078)	1/8/2006 8:07:30 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793851

Sigh....it's just not worth it. I'm sorry. Not to worry. I figured it out after I posted. This was the transaction: KLP:I await your REVIEW. kholt: You must have missed IT. The "it" I clearly, I thought, referenced was the review I had posted after watching the show. You somehow thought the "it" referred to the show and claimed that I had missed your saying that you hadn't seen the show. That's what started that strange series of posts. Re the substance of this discussion, I've read most of the commentary on the show. I found a couple of things interesting. One was that those who found the show offensive and insulting to Christianity never offered a rationale for that reaction. It was like the question I raised the other day about the leak and how it hurt our surveillance. People kept referencing the harm but no one said what that harm was. LB finally found some obscure explanation. This is much like that. Insulting, maybe, but how, who knows? Another was that those articles most opposed to the show all referenced the fact that the writer is gay. I wonder if the reaction would have been the same had the writer been someone else. I think that my original suspicion may be correct. I guess that you have never gone back and read the original "review" I posted. In it I suggested that the reaction was mostly that the show didn't meet expectations. A group of people who have been clamouring for some time for more Christian families on TV heard of a show that had one and they expected some Father Knows Best sort of family and they expected a format where junior does something wrong like painting graffiti on a neighbor's fence but learns his lesson by the end of the show. They were not expecting a soap opera featuring a Christian family whose members had flaws. So when they saw it, they were more upset than they might of been had they not had such high expectations. I think the expectations were unrealistic and tunnel visioned. After all, the show is scheduled for the ten o'clock time slot. But they had expectations, nonetheless, of a model family that was model as a result of their strong Christianity. They didn't get it and they were upset.