{"id":2007167,"date":"2023-08-21T16:17:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T20:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/one-way-street-kevin-sorbo-says-hollywood-canceled-him-because-hes-christian-and-conservative\/"},"modified":"2023-08-21T16:17:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T20:17:47","slug":"one-way-street-kevin-sorbo-says-hollywood-canceled-him-because-hes-christian-and-conservative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/one-way-street-kevin-sorbo-says-hollywood-canceled-him-because-hes-christian-and-conservative\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Sorbo claims Hollywood canceled him for being a Christian and conservative."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fone-way-street-kevin-sorbo-says-hollywood-canceled-him-because-hes-christian-and-conservative%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2007167&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Actor \u200bKevin Sorbo Challenges Critics Claiming &#8220;Old White \u2064Men&#8221; Can&#8217;t Decide Roe v. Wade with Historic Throwback\u200d Shot<\/h2>\n<p>Kevin Sorbo, known for his role in \u2062the &#8217;90s TV show &#8220;Hercules,&#8221; recently spoke out about\u2064 being dropped\u200b by his \u200cagent and canceled by\u2062 Hollywood. According \u200dto Sorbo, his \u2064Christian faith and conservative beliefs were the reasons \u200dbehind this career setback.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Fox News, \u2064the \u200c64-year-old \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnns-don-lemon-was-advising-jussie-smollett-actor-tells-jury\/\" title=\"CNN\u2019s Don Lemon Was Advising Jussie Smollett, Actor Tells Jury\">actor revealed<\/a> \u200dthat he was &#8220;blackballed&#8221; in the\u2063 entertainment industry. His agent and manager informed him that his religious and political views were to \u2063blame for the lack of job offers.<\/p>\n<p>Sorbo\u2064 expressed his\u2062 disappointment, stating, &#8220;It was sad to me&#8230; It&#8217;s an industry \u200cthat\u2064 screams for tolerance, and yet it&#8217;s a one-way street. It screams\u2063 for freedom of speech, but Hollywood&#8217;s a one-way street as well. And that&#8217;s just too bad, you know. But I love the \u200dindustry. I love \u2062the movies and TV.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018Hercules\u2019 actor Kevin Sorbo says Hollywood canceled \u200bhim because of his \u200dChristian beliefs <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ri1ULvaeAr\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ri1ULvaeAr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fox \u200dNews (@FoxNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews\/status\/1693592774124212518?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 21, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;It was really weird,&#8221; Sorbo continued. &#8220;I \u200dmean, here&#8217;s the thing. We \u200bhave such a huge divide\u200d in our\u2062 country\u2062 right now, and it&#8217;s perpetuated by the mainstream media,\u2064 perpetuated\u200d by movies, TV. I don&#8217;t harbor that \u200bkind of anger and hatred towards people. I have a different point of view.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Sorbo&#8217;s wife, Sam Sorbo, also shared that her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/one-way-street-kevin-sorbo-says-hollywood-canceled-him-because-hes-christian-and-conservative\/\" title=\"Kevin Sorbo claims Hollywood canceled him for being a Christian and conservative.\">husband faced consequences<\/a> for his beliefs on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platforms<\/a>. He \u200dwas even kicked \u200doff LinkedIn and Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even LinkedIn took me down,&#8221; Sorbo\u200d chuckled. &#8220;They don&#8217;t like \u200bthe truth. The truth is too difficult for some people to\u200d take.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These comments were made as Sorbo and his wife promoted their upcoming movie, &#8220;Miracle \u2063in East Texas,&#8221; set to release in October. The film, \u2064produced by Sorbo Studios, is based on a true story and revolves around themes of love, \u2063hope, faith,\u200d and laughter.<\/p>\n<p>Sorbo and Sam have been married since \u20631998 and \u200dhave three children together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>that his Christian and conservative beliefs were making it difficult for them to find him work. Despite the setback, Sorbo remains unapologetic about his values and continues to pursue acting opportunities outside of Hollywood. He believes that the industry&#8217;s intolerance towards differing viewpoints is a disservice to the principles of free speech and diversity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":2007168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2007167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2007167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2007168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}