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CNN's "Showbiz Tonight" recently featured a segment about the "battle" ensuing as increasing numbers of gay characters "invade primetime television." The segment highlights Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) and Cameron (Eric Stonestreet) from "Modern Family," Eric (Connor Paolo) from "Gossip Girl," and Kurt (Chris Colfer) on "Glee."
"It's bad for society to promote homosexuals," says Dan Gaynor from The Culture and Media Institute. "Particularly a homosexual lifestyle and gay marriage. What they're trying to do is normalize something that a lot of people don't want to normalize."
On the other side of the debate was Emmy-winner Stonestreet. "I think people see in our show, especially with Mitch and Cam, that people are more similar than they are different."
"Glee's" Jane Lynch says, "I think you tell human stories, and the gays are becoming more and more prominent, which is nice, because I am one, so it's a natural evolution. There will be more storylines, which is great."
Following the segment, CNN's homepage featured a poll that asked "Is the surge in gay TV characters bad for society?"
GLAAD responded by stating that "the fact that a well-respected, major news organization is asking a question like this" is what really hurts society. According to the Aaron McQuade, GLAAD's Associate Director of National News, CNN's Standards and Practices promptly removed the poll after they were contacted by GLAAD.
At the time the poll was removed, a majority of users had voted "No."
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Dan Gaynor from The Culture and Media Institute is SO WRONG--So, so wrong that he will never know how wrong-
We are all just people......people make babies and people can raise kids. And people can do a good job at it or a bad job at it.
We are all just defined as people.
So CNN is now FOX News?
he is right
So now, to even ask a question is out of the question! Wow, another giant step forward for PC, another giant step backward for America. "Standards and Practices"? From CNN? You must be kidding.
It appears GLAAD isn't comfortable with a poll that might display results they don't want to see or don't want anyone else see either.
Oh, "do the right thing", did mommy and daddy tell you all that? And the nice man at your church? I'd wonder if you had a brain, but I guess you need one to be completely brainwashed. Science shows that we're born gay, therefore it's natural. Rare and unnatural are not the same thing. But I suppose definitions are too much to break through that shell that keeps knowledge from reaching you.
Limp- er- Wet Willy, yes, they are in fact trying to keep an obviously biogted poll from being jumped on like idiots by you. Doesn't change the fact that in reality- actual reality, not the reality of the dellusions of the brainwashed like "do the right thing"- there's nothing wrong with being gay,
Homosexuals are realistically a very small percentage of society so it is not right for them to be represented on television as a larger percentage, something that is more than what it is. Our children should not grow up believing that they should just go to the gay lifestyle if they feel like it because it is ok on tv and they might not be finding someone quickly of the opposite sex so they settle for what ever is around. It is not ok. If gay relationships were normal a man and man would be able to naturally produce a baby as well as a woman and a woman. Nature speaks for itself.
My God, your ignorance is unimaginable. "Go to the gay lifestyle" because they see it on TV. Let me give you one small piece of information. If a person is gay he or she is gay and if they aren't, then they aren't. Lifestyles are not defined by what you watch on TV. If that were true then I would be a spy billionaire working for a retail store with 10 kids by 4 different mothers singing and dancing in front of my entire school, where it is awesome that everyone can hear the same music and dance in one big awesome group where everyone knows the steps! TV is not going to show them the way. THE NATURAL COURSE OF THEIR LIFE IS! Get over it!
As a larger percentage? Are you serious? If gay people made up 6 percent of the population, which seems likely, then the have been historically underrepresented. Look at CBS, on those shows what percentage of characters are openly gay — zero or maybe one or two percent if you count reality shows. On Fox, what percentage? "The surge" in gay characters and you can still name the number of gay leading characters on one hand. Whoever says "a larger percentage" just isn't watching TV or is so homophobic a gay characters here and there is one too many.
I concur w/ AvidReader. Is GLAAD afraid of the response the question might get?