Hollywood as the guiding light for American culture--AICN: Obamanation!? Jack Black, John C. Reilly & More Hit The Nets With PROPOSITION 8: THE MUSICAL!!

What do we do in response? Avoid watching movies or buying DVDs of actors who not only hold but promote views that are counter to good morals rooted in the natural law? What about directors and producers? And other 'artists'? Giving them money not only supports their way of life but makes their advocacy possible by contributing to their perceived popularity by the studios or record companies, and so on.

It would seem that there are only a few artists we can actually 'patronize' enthusiastically--Jim Caviezel, Eduardo Verastegui... Others may endorse licentiousness (dressed up as 'progressive' morality, or in the name of tolerance), but do not see themselves as spokespersons for such issues and stay quiet. I think that many artists in the classical music world fall under this description, but I could be wrong--I have not really been paying attention to what they say and do in public.

We should avoid supporting the rest, who are vocal about changing our mores, and it isn't so difficult to abstain from watching movies or buying albums, is it? I don't think any sort of compromise is possible. If it is too difficult to look at what sort of positions artists are promoting, then the obvious solution is to avoid supporting any, unless one knows that they are upholding traditional morality in their speech, if not by their personal lives?

(Most Hong Kong artists in their 20s and 30s tend to be promoters of 'liberal' morality, whether in interviews or commercials and so on. It is disappointing to see how low Hong Kong has fallen in such a short time. Western countries, especially the United States, where many of the influential are educated, have played no small role in the moral decline of East Asia.)

The other part of the solution is to learn how to entertain ourselves. Half-way measures such as watching only "family-friendly" movies are not enough to sustain a culture or preserve a community... Which reminds me, on Thanksgiving, the family, the cousins and DR were playing Rock Band--on par with playing Guitar Hero or Dance Dance Revolution, but better than nothing?

Robert George, One Man, One Woman: The case for preserving the definition of marriage.