The Homosexual Agenda Advances on Television
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in 1989, a psychologist and an advertising executive set out to
redefine the homosexual movement. Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen
outlined their plan inAfter the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the '90s--one of the most controversial books ever to emerge from the homosexual community.
Kirk
and Madsen were convinced that the gay rights movement was in danger of
failure, largely because homosexual behavior was so different from the
norm and repulsive to most Americans. As these authors saw the
situation, the homosexual agenda was going nowhere so long as flamboyant
drag queens and the North American Man-Boy Love Association [NAMBLA]
dominated the headlines. Unless something changed, mainstream Americans
would continue to be repulsed, offended, and hardened in their
resistance to the gay rights movement.
With
this in mind, Kirk and Madsen developed a six-point agenda to advance
the homosexual cause. At the center of their approach was one inflexible
point--make homosexuality and homosexuals look as normal as possible.
Their first commandment, therefore, was to "talk about gays and gayness
as loudly and as often as possible." Almost fifteen years after the
book's publication, it is clear that the approach is working.
If the portrayal of homosexuality in the upcoming television season can be described in two words, loud and often would
be the right words to choose. According to the Gay and Lesbian Alliance
Against Defamation [GLAAD], the new television schedule is playing
their tune, pushing the gay agenda through homosexual characters and
story lines.
GLAAD
just released its annual analysis of LGBT [Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and
Transgender] characters on television and declared that "this season's
line-up marks a critical step forward in representations of same-sex
relationships and families." A closer look reveals that this "critical
step forward" for the homosexual agenda is an understatement.
In
reality, producers and networks are falling over themselves to prove
their alliance with the homosexual activists. Groups like GLAAD work
full-time pushing television executives and writers to advance their
cause. They review scripts and demand character and story lines that
advance their cause by portraying gays and lesbians in the most
favorable light. Kirk and Madsen's fourth commandment, "make gays look
good," has become a virtual law in Hollywood and on the television
screen. GLAAD's latest report offers undeniable proof.
The report points to new shows like ABC's It's All Relative,
a show featuring a gay male couple with a college-age daughter. The Fox
Channel's fall line-up will include another homosexual couple in A Minute With Stan Hooper. On this show, "Pete" and "Lou" are two men who "own and operate a local diner and consider themselves married."
GLAAD
executive director Joan M. Garry claimed these two shows as a major
advance for her cause. "For the first time on a broadcast network, the
real-life experience of thousands of gay and lesbian families will be
mirrored on television." She continued on a personal note: "My partner
of 22 years and I can finally look at our three children and tell them
there is a family on television that looks like us."
Beyond this, Garry pointed to NBC's Coupling and CBS's Two and a Half Men as proof of "a summer of unprecedented LGBT visibility following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn sodomy laws in Lawrence v. Texas." She had every reason to be pleased. From the summer'sQueer Eye for the Straight Guy to Boy Meets Boy, television is now pushing the gay agenda into America's homes.
There
are still areas for development, insists Garry, for there are no
transgender characters and only one new lesbian character in the fall's
broadcast schedule. Just give them time.
Homosexual
content is even more explicit and pervasive on cable schedules, where
"multi-dimensional gay and lesbian relationships are a staple of cable
network programming" and homosexual characters are portrayed "in complex
romantic and sexual relationships." Complex? The complexity boggles the
mind.
A
full analysis of all homosexual characters is provided on GLAAD's web
site under the heading, "Where We Are On TV." The characters--old and
new--are listed by show and identified by "orientation" and ethnicity.
It's quite a list.
Television
is one of the most powerful influences in the culture. The television
screen presents what Hollywood producers, executives, and writers think
will attract viewers. But, as the GLAAD report makes clear, the screen
also presents a vision of what the cultural elite wants us to see asnormal, as well as attractive and acceptable. They are winning.
GLAAD
describes its work as "promoting or ensuring fair, accurate and
inclusive representations of people and events in the media as a means
of eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity
and sexual orientation." They work at this with a passionate devotion to
their cause, and with eager partners in the entertainment industry.
Hollywood is now the center of an entertainment system that reaches into
every American home in one way or another. In most homes, that reach
comes through many avenues simultaneously.
The
GLAAD report was written as an insider document for the homosexual
community, but it also serves as a warning to the rest of us of what is
to come. America's toxic entertainment culture is going to be more even
more poisonous to Christian morality in the next television season. The
natural family is now just one option among others. Almost any
combination of persons will now be recognized by Hollywood as a family.
Homosexual characters and couples "in complex romantic and sexual
relationships" will become regular fare.
There
is little reason for hope that Hollywood will be reformed--at least
anytime soon. The entertainment industry is an industry after all.
Writers, actors, and producers will press the envelope, but the fact
remains that the advertising slots are selling and someone is watching.
We are on the losing side in Hollywood.
Christians--especially
parents--must ask themselves why we would allow this propaganda for
immorality into our homes. The most important part on the television is
now the "off" button.
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