Christian Film Booted from 'Best Song' Oscar
Nomination
There is more controversy in the
entertainment world. First it was the same-sex marriages at the Grammy Awards,
and then Katy Perry's ode to dark powers. Now a woman in a wheelchair is being
pushed around by some Oscar people: “This year’s most-obscure Oscar nominee is
no more.
"At a meeting this week, the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences board of governors decided to strip the
surprise nomination for Best Song from ‘Alone Yet Not Alone,’ which appears in
the independent Christian-produced film of the same name.”
The song is performed by Joni Eareckson Tada
who has been confined to a wheelchair since 1967 when “she dove into Chesapeake
Bay after misjudging the shallowness of the water. She suffered a fracture
between the fourth and fifth cervical levels and became a quadriplegic,
paralysed from the shoulders down.” You can read about her story in the book Joni.
Joni “founded Joni and Friends (JAF) in 1979,
a Christian organization that ministers to “the disabled community throughout
the world. In 2006 the Joni and Friends International Disability Centre in Agoura,
California, was established.”
Now back to the song controversy. “With
limited lung capacity due to her disability, Tada, . . . had her husband, Ken,
pushing on her diaphragm while she recorded the Oscar-nominated song to give
her enough breath to hit the high notes.”
You can read the story on Variety’s website
as well as here.
“The Los Angeles Times reports
the song may have been nominated because it played a crucial, recurring role in
the film. Bruce Broughton, a winner of multiple Emmy awards and a previous
Oscar nominee (Silverado), was
one of the composers.”
Joni, while
disappointed, has been more than gracious as the controversy kicked up some
dust among some disgruntled film people.
I don’t know what the truth is, but I do know
how liberals would respond to such an action if the song had been sung by an
atheist woman who was in a wheelchair and a conservative organization had made
a similar decision.
First, the facts would not matter.
Second, we would be hearing about the
incessant liberal narrative about how conservatives are at war with women.
[Third], conservatives would be attacked
because they had gone after a defenseless woman in a wheelchair. You know, kind
of like the way that Abortion Barbie Wendy Davis supporters mocked Texas
Lieutenant Governor Greg
Abbott who is also confined to a wheelchair because of an accident
to his spinal cord.
Read more at http://godfatherpolitics.com/14189/christian-film-booted-best-song-oscar-nomination/#gFrCp11V7EFifFKF.99
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