I am a Watkin's Associate and involved with the Summit Group. They told me that this movie "Door to Door" was airing about Bill Porter and Watkins and so I thought it was an old family type movie and watched it. Hollywood put in two guys who kissed and a scene where they showed a woman's bare back in Bill Porter's house, I guess a shower scene. This was on TNT and so must have been edited. Bill Porter worked for Watkins and the Watkin's name was all over the movie.

I cried about it, because I watched it and it made me feel icky because my 2 year old was there also and it was hard to keep her from watching it with me. Now do I quit Watkin's? Is it supporting this stuff? The Summit Group were actually the ones who told me to watch it, so are they promoting it? I wrote this to the Summit Group message board: I am sorry to say this but although I was really inspired by Bill Porter's life, Hollywood poisoned the movie with its promotion of the homosexual lifestyle and pornography- shower scene (even if it was soft porn). To me, Hollywood used Bill Porter to promote their agenda. I was shocked and from the messages the Summit group sent to me I thought it was completely a family movie. If I ever see it again, it will be edited so that I don't have to see or hear immorality. I had no idea that this stuff was in the show and I have been advertising my tsginfo website and I understand that all my candidates were told about it and I had told my candidates about it too, not knowing this. I am so upset about this and I do not know whether to stop working for Watkins or not because of this. I really am sad about this and I thought that this Watkins and Summit group business was nondiscriminative. Well as a woman and a Catholic I feel like the promotion of pornography and immoral lifestyles are discrimminitive of me. I am so sad and yet I am not sure what to do at this time. Sorry I feel that way, but right now I am upset to tears, because I am really working hard with this company and I have to work around my 2 year old. That can be challenging and now this.

Should I have written this? I am so confused.

-- Sonya (johnsonya2004@catholicexchange.com), November 19, 2004

Answers

Bump.

-- Sonya (johnsonya2004@catholicexchange.com)), November 19, 2004.

I change the two words from discrimination to offensive on the Summit Group message board. Is this more appropriate?

-- Sonya (johnsonya2004@catholicexchange.com)), November 19, 2004.

I saw it too. Those scenes seemed so out of place.

You should not be too upset. You were mislead, and you cannot blame yourself for that. Be watchful for these things in the future. I almost never watch ordinary TV anymore. Last night was the rare exception. I was just too tired to rise and turn the silly thing off after Law and Order was over.

Notify the people you contacted and let them know your complaints on those scenes. I would be careful about using the discrimination term. Say it like it is! You were morally offended. Take comfort in the fact that your conscience is sensitive to these things and not numb from accepting or living a sinful life.

-- Pat Delaney (patrickrdelaney@yahoo.com), November 19, 2004.

Yes I understand that I should change those words-discriminated. I meant to write that in my second post. I put offensive. Morally offensive would have been more appropriate. I just don't know if I should quit or not. I feel so upset still.

-- Sonya (johnsonya2004@catholicexchange.com), November 19, 2004.