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Monday September 23, 2002
CULTURAL ICON OPRAH WINFREY PROMOTES ACCEPTANCE OF HOMOSEXUALITY
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LOS ANGELES, September 23, 2002 (LSN.ca) - During the Emmy awards Sunday Oprah Winfrey was awarded the inaugural Bob Hope Humanitarian Award. In her acceptance speech, she said, "We all are just regular people seeking the same thing: the guy on the street, the woman in the classroom, the Israeli, the Afghani, the Zuni, the Apache, the Irish, the Protestant, the Catholic, the gay, the straight, you, me -- we all just want to know that we matter. We want validation."
Pro-family and pro-life groups have been concerned with Oprah's promotion of anti-life and anti-family measures. In 2000 Winfrey was the keynote speaker at a luncheon held by the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention, a group whose priority this year is to ensure that minors, without parental consent, maintain their access to contraceptives and abortion. Winfrey's cameo appearance on the "coming out" episode of the TV show "Ellen" in 1997 raised concerns at the time over the promotion of homosexuality.
See related LifeSite coverage:
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See the AP coverage of her remarks at the Emmys:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,63787,00.html
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