A Shot at…
“Respects his virginity, but felt he is also too innocent.”
That’s the reason that Eddie was eliminated from the new “hit” reality game show A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila. Parents, if you don’t know about this show, it’s time you learned.
A Shot at Love was originally taped to be on VH1, but, when the producers saw what they had, they moved it to the main station, MTV. The first show aired on October 9, and was the 3rd-highest ranking debut in MTV history.
The show “features” Tila Tequila, an internet superstar who makes a living being famous. On the original episode there were 16 straight men and 16 lesbians who did not know that Tila is bisexual. After 10 contestants had been eliminated, the remaining contestants were told. Now, all the contestants share a bedroom in the hopes of being Tila’s love interest. All the while, Tila is attempting to figure out if she likes men or women better.
The show “features” women kissing, sex talk, makeout sessions and other scandalous behavior; not to mention the drinking that gets everyone through each episode.
Parents, young people are talking about this show. Tila is a good-looking woman, and wears skimpy clothing (as do many of the contestants). She is trying to figure out if she is straight, lesbian or bisexual, which could cause some vulnerable young people to question their own sexuality. Is this what you want your children watching?
And, by the way, one of the woman was eliminated because she “Kissed another woman while in the house and seems to have issues with monogamy.” I wonder how Tila feels about monogamy, when she has 32 people compete for her “love.”
Don’t you think it’s about time you blocked MTV?
NOTE: The Christian Post wrote an article around the time this show aired. Here is that article. Tila responded with an article on her MySpace blog. Her words, written on September 28, follow, but have been edited. Obviously, I am not endorsing her words, but I decided to put them here so you could see the “logic” Tila uses for why it’s okay to be gay, bisexual, straight, or whatever, and STILL be pleasing to God.
MY RESPONSE TO THE “CHRISTIAN POST”:
First of all, why would God create human beings and make us the way we are only to condemn us to hell for being what he created??? That just doesn’t make sense to me. In a perfect world, God would have the churches teach us how to love one another, no matter who, what, when and where. The church needs to help ENCOURAGE us to follow our hearts, because the heart never lies. The heart is where you will truly find God. Instead of bashing on the gay community, the church should understand that they have a higher responsibility to teach the youth about unconditional love, and how we can spread the love, not why being gay is a bad thing. They are conditioning us and reminding us everyday that God is here to condemn you and, in turn, THAT is what actually leads the youth of today down the wrong path! I for one know because I have been down that lonely path, with no love nor support from anyone. Not from my own family, not from my teachers, not from my own community, and I sure as **** wasn’t trying to go to church to talk about my “gay” problems!
Growing up, I felt like I had no one to turn to in times of need, who would be there for me with open arms without judgment when I felt hopeless. I lived in a lonely shattered world and tried to commit suicide quite a few times from a very young and tender age starting at 11yrs to 22 years of age…..that is until I made amends with God…the God that I can feel and hear in my own heart, not the ones such as these church groups above. This is what saved my life. I have had about 6 near death experiences and each experience brought me closer and closer to God. The moment I freed myself from society’s rules and standards, and just started to follow my own heart, that is when I truly saw the light at the end of the tunnel….I stopped feeling bad about myself because I was told that I was a “bad” person for whatever reasons and opinions…That’s when I turned my life around. I accepted me for who I am in all my glory. I accepted the fact that God would love me as long as my heart is good, and you know what? It is! I have a huge heart, I am compassionate, and I know what it’s like to feel hopeless….but now that I’ve endured all of that pain, maybe God put me on this path so that I would be able to share with everyone else who may be going through the same things? Maybe God wanted me to be the way I am, bisexual or not, so that I could help heal the world in some way….maybe some teenager reading this right now will feel a little bit of hope knowing that it’s ok to accept yourself and love yourself for who you are, no matter what anyone else says and that they are not alone in this world!!! All I know is that I just want to love and be loved. I don’t care what color your skin is or what your gender is. Love is just love and it is a beautiful thing we should all be able to experience!
So with all due respect; Rev. Dr. Samuel Kobia, Jeff Johnston, and Dr. Robert Gagnon, who are you to say that myself and MTV are “cooperating so readily with our adversary” or that I am “Sexually broken and confused?” Excuse me but the only thing that saved my dear life was indeed God and now I am a better person for it. When you are laying submerged underwater like I was, hopeless, and seconds away from passing on to the next life….you truly understand at that point what it feels like to be lonely. Thank you God for putting love back into my life and allowing me to fully express all the love that I have to offer this world….whether it be with man, woman, black, white….the list goes on. I just want to say that I am truly blessed to have had an opportunity to share with the world and teach the world that it is OK to be who you are! Gay or not! So thank you MTV for giving me this opportunity. I know that this show will continue to cause controversy amongst many people out there, but after having almost died 6 times in my life, 3 of then from attempted suicide, I would just like to say that all this is just icing on the cake! Parents…support and love your children! You brought them into this world….you should love them unconditionally before it’s too late! I had to learn the hard way! GOD BLESS AMERICA AND THE WORLD!
