Catholic Entity in Africa Launches Call to Stop “social engineering” through Gay Superman

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The Catholic entity, which works through online petitions to spearhead family issues, laments that the scriptwriter of the series, Tom Taylor, “frontally” rejected in The New York Times the idea of maintaining an image of Superman.

Taylor is quoted by the New York Times as saying, “The idea of replacing Clark Kent (Superman) with another straight white savior seemed like a missed opportunity.”

According to the scriptwriter, a new Superman had to have new struggles, real-world problems “that he could face as one of the most powerful people of the world.”

In their petition to stop the change of the Superman identity, CitizenGo decries the move to transmit a distorted image of heroism to children.

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The petition published on Tuesday, October 19 reads in part, “The new Superman does not free women in distress or prevent terrorist attacks but has become a kind of environmental, pro-immigration, anti-gun activist. And now, he is gay and has a homosexual relationship with a spectacled journalist with pink hair.”

“Is this the image you intend to convey of a hero?” the petition probes, and adds, “I want you to know that I reject the social engineering that they intend to do with this project; that I do not want to transmit a distorted image of heroism to my children and that I will certainly not buy their products if this gay Superman finally hits the streets.”

Agnes Aineah is a Kenyan journalist with a background in digital and newspaper reporting. She holds a Master of Arts in Digital Journalism from the Aga Khan University, Graduate School of Media and Communications and a Bachelor's Degree in Linguistics, Media and Communications from Kenya's Moi University. Agnes currently serves as a journalist for ACI Africa.