Exodus: Live Out Loud

TV Land's 'Happy Face' On Homosexuality Masks Tragic Lifestyle

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/6/82005a.asp

"Even in TV shows that have nothing to do with homosexuality," Vitagliano notes, "apparently gays and lesbians have often latched onto any hint of a close relationship or spiritual intimacy between characters of the same sex and have read a homosexual subtext into it, desperate to find something -- anything -- that will give them a sense of normalcy." Or, in other cases, he adds, indications are that homosexuals often view shows about characters with supernatural powers and hidden abilities, such as "Bewitched" and "I Dream of Jeannie," and see characters who must keep secrets or lead hidden lives as somehow paralleling the "closeted" homosexual existence." -Ed Vitagliano, a media researcher for the American Family Association remarks on the show "Inside TV Land: Tickled Pink"

Cable Companies to Add Gay TV

http://www.family.org/cforum/feature/a0036762.cfm

Many Christian leaders and parents are concerned that the LOGO channel will influence susceptible young people to do things that they are not mature enough to recognize as dangerous.

"I believe very strongly that the type of Christianity one's been exposed to is going to determine the impact of the media. If Jesus is a friend that nurtures you then there will be little impact. If it doesn't nurture the soul, the soul is going to be hungry—hungry hearts will be trapped."- Rob Winslow, founder and director of Healing Presence Ministries

Cable Companies to Add Gay TV

http://www.family.org/cforum/feature/a0036762.cfm

Adelphia Communications, Time Warner Inc. and RCN Cable networks have agreed, as part of their contract with Viacom to include LOGO, which provides non-stop gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender programming only, in their lineups.

TV Networks Trip Over One Another to Promote Gay Marriage

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/jun/05060102.html

In a recent article about the attempt by television networks to prove how much gay people love each other by bombarding the viewing public with numerous gay themed television shows Lifesite news stated: "The arguments of defenders of traditional marriage have never focused around gay love, but rather on the intrinsic spiritual, emotional and physical lack of complementarity between the two people in the relationship. As well there are serious health issues related to dangerous homosexual sexual practices and grave concerns about the welfare of children raised in these usually unstable and confusing relationships. Finally, there are valid concerns about removal of basic democratic freedoms from critics of homosexual behaviour (as opposed to the persons involved in this behaviour) by those who have made it plain they will not tolerate public expression of any such opinions."

"Fox Blocker" Shows Liberal Intolerance

http://www.crosswalk.com/news/1324978.html

Michael Medved
Beyond The News Commentary

April 18, 2005

Liberal activists are actively promoting "The Fox Blocker," a technological innovation that attaches to your TV set and prevents it from receiving the Fox News Channel.

New Networks Woo Gays, Lesbians

http://cbsnewyork.com/entertainment/entertainment_story_106010652.html

• Three Channels To Focus On Gay, Lesbian Programming
  

Apr 16, 2005 1:04 am US/Eastern
NEW YORK (AP) Three new TV networks catering to gay and lesbian viewers are trying to establish themselves and all say they support one another - at least publicly.

Competition breeds interest and shows doubters that the business is viable, said Frank Olsen, president of the Q Television Network. He once applied the same theory when he owned four gay and lesbian bars near each other in Seattle.

"I think there's room for all three of us," said Olsen, whose network is the underdog of the trio. "We're different types of channels, just like you have ABC, NBC and CBS."

Cable Biggies Bringing Homosexual Networks into America's Homes

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/4/132005b.asp

By Allie Martin and Jody Brown
April 13, 2005

(AgapePress) - Officials with the American Family Association say they expect a massive public outcry to erupt over the recent announcement that two homosexual cable networks will soon be widely available, compliments of some major cable carriers that provide services to millions of American homes. As a result, homosexual-oriented programming will be available around the clock for the first time.

According to a New York Times article earlier this week, two major cable providers -- Comcast and Cox Communications -- will offer the homosexual network titled "here!" through their video on-demand offerings. Billing itself as "America's first gay television network," here! was established in 2002 by Regent Entertainment and boasts current availability in more than 40 million households.

CAUTION: The following article contains descriptions that are unsuitable for young readers.

Family Group Warns of 'Deviant Homosexual Content' on New Cable Networks

http://www.crosswalk.com/news/1324272.html

Melanie Hunter
Deputy Managing Editor

(CNSNews.com) - A pro-family group is warning parents about two new homosexual cable networks that will be offered by cable providers.

Comcast and Cox Communications recently agreed to offer the homosexual network Here, which is produced by Regent Entertainment, through their video-on-demand service, The New York Times reported this week. Also, Viacom will launch LOGO, a homosexual-themed network, as a basic cable channel on June 30.

KLRU sidesteps PBS, joins 'Buster's' visit to same-sex household

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/life/holloway/03/8tvcolumn.html

DIANE HOLLOWAY: ON TV
Tuesday, March 08, 2005

PBS nixed the notion of a cartoon bunny named Buster visiting kids in a same-sex household, but KLRU is hopping ahead.

Study: TV Show Negative Image of Religion

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Prime-time-Faith.html

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: December 16, 2004

Filed at 11:55 p.m. ET

NEW YORK (AP) -- Television entertainment programs mention God more often than they did in the mid-1990s but tend to depict organized religion negatively, a study released Thursday said.

The Parents Television Council watched every hour of prime-time on the broadcast networks during the 2003-04 season and logged 2,344 treatments of religion. They judged 22 percent of the mentions positive, 24 percent negative and the rest neutral.

Networks Get Religion All Wrong, Survey Says

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/8/252004e.asp

Number of Reports Increases, but So Does Skepticism, Hostility
Feature by Tim Graham
Media Research Center
August 25, 2004

(AgapePress) - In recent months, a number of dramatic religious stories have unfolded, from religious freedom in Iraq, to the installation of an openly gay bishop to the religious and commercial phenomenon around Mel Gibson's movie The Passion of the Christ. To measure the upsurge in religion coverage in 2003 and the beginning of 2004, Media Research Center (MRC) analysts surveyed every religion news story on ABC, CBS, and NBC news programs in the 12 months from March 1, 2003 through February 29, 2004. We then compared those numbers to MRC's first religion news study of 1993. Major findings include:

Religion coverage has more than doubled from ten years ago. Overall, the networks aired 699 segments in the study period, up from 336 in 1993. The number of evening news stories on the three networks is up fairly dramatically (121 in 1993, 303 in the 2003-04 period). The number of religion segments on prime-time magazine shows and late-night and Sunday interview shows is way up (18 in 1993 to 65 in the 2003-04 period). A smaller jump came on the morning shows (197 in 1993, 331 in the 2003-04 period).

But the skeptical tone of religion coverage -- covering religious issues like everyday political debates, favoring "religious" scholars who strongly question the authenticity of the Bible -- doesn't match the religious belief that Americans state in polls. In a Fox News-Opinion Dynamics poll last September, 92 percent expressed belief in God. A broad majority also expressed belief in heaven (85 percent), miracles (82 percent), angels (78 percent), hell (74 percent), and the devil (71 percent).

In February, an ABC News poll found a majority of Americans believe in the literal truth of the Bible. By contrast, polls over the years have established that journalists seldom or never attend religious services and are much less religious than the public as a whole.

Chris Matthews' Hard Sell

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Warren Throckmorton, PhD
July 19, 2004

Chris Matthews, the tough but affable host of MSNBC’s Hardball advanced an interesting argument in favor of same sex marriage. His theory is that the government has a kind of obligation to encourage bonding among homosexuals.

On a July 12 show with Utah Senator Orin Hatch, Mr. Matthews asked the following question of Senator Hatch: “Senator, how do you discourage promiscuity, sexual promiscuity, among gay people if you don‘t encourage bonding of some kind?” As I understand his question, Mr. Matthews makes two moral assumptions: One, promiscuity among homosexuals is bad and two, such behavior can be “discouraged” by government policy concerning marriage.

To me, that line of thinking could be insulting to those who identify as gay. The reasoning seems to go like this: These poor helpless gay people are at the mercy of their sexual drives and they cannot avoid jumping in and out of each other’s beds without the government providing some controls. This seems to demean the moral free agency of those who identify as gay. I think an additional unspoken assumption is that the reason straight people are not promiscuous is because legal marriage is between a man and a woman.

For 'Indecency' Watchdogs, Work Is a Day Full of TV

LOS ANGELES TIMES - http://www.latimes.com/la-et-watchdog10may10,1,1963531.story -
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Across the Potomac from Capitol Hill, on the second floor of a red brick-and-glass building, Caroline Eichenberg toils away in her homey cubicle, watching television. Monday through Friday, 7 1/2 hours a day, she keeps tabs on dramas, sitcoms and reality shows.

Advertisers Under Fire over Lesbian-Centered TV Series

http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewCulture.asp?Page=\Culture\archive\200405\CUL20040504a.html

By Patrick Goodenough
CNSNews.com Pacific Rim Bureau Chief
May 04, 2004

Pacific Rim Bureau (CNSNews.com) - The airing of an American television drama featuring the lives of lesbians in Los Angeles has caused a stir in Australia, where companies advertising the show have found themselves under pressure from campaigners on both sides of the issue.

"The L-Word," whose first season ran on the Showtime cable network in the U.S. earlier this year, offers such story lines as a lesbian couple hunting for a sperm donor in order to have a child and an older lesbian luring a confused younger woman away from a heterosexual relationship.

When Australia's Channel Seven began broadcasting the show, a small Christian lobby group in Victoria state, Saltshakers, urged concerned Christians to write to the companies whose ads were running during the program.

Pittsburgh's Gay Community Still Hidden

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040504/ap_en_tv/queer_as_pittsburgh_1

By JENNIFER C. YATES, Associated Press Writer

PITTSBURGH - The Showtime series "Queer as Folk" began its fourth season Sunday, chronicling the lives of gays and lesbians living in the Steel City. But there's no bustling downtown gay community with nightclubs and businesses in the real Pittsburgh, and the show's streetscapes are really filmed in Toronto.

Though the show has a following here — Monday nights at the South Side restaurant Tuscany are "Queer as Folk" watching nights — many gay and lesbian Pittsburghers say the real gay community is more subdued, even hidden.

"There are a lot more closeted people in this area. Most times I just hear people say, 'Wow, that is so not Pittsburgh,'" said John Doughty, 32, Pittsburgh resident who is gay.

Tom Stewart, 42, who moved to Pittsburgh from San Diego in 2002, described Pittsburgh's gay community as "being close to nonexistent." He said he doesn't feel accepted everywhere he goes, and wouldn't, for example, wear a gay T-shirt in certain neighborhoods.

Gay TV Series Breaks Taboos in Vietnam

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040420/tv_nm/media_vietnam_gay_dc_1

Tue Apr 20,12:40 AM ET

HANOI (Reuters) - An award-winning book that broke taboos in Vietnam with its central theme of homosexuality has been turned into a TV series, but the plot still suggests being gay is a disorder.

The 10-part series, to be aired in June, is based on the book "A world without women" by former crime reporter Bui Anh Tan. The whodunit is set in the underground world of gay men in Vietnam and won a writing prize in 2002.

"The series' main theme is homosexuality is a disorder," Nguyen Minh Tiep, who plays the main character, told Reuters on Tuesday.

Gay TV Content Will Be Here! 24/7

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040414/tv_nm/television_gay_dc_1

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By Nellie Andreeva

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Here! TV, a supplier of gay- and lesbian-oriented content to satellite customers via pay-per-view, is eyeing an Oct. 1 lauch for a round-the-clock programing service that will feature classic and original films and TV shows.

As part of its pledge to produce more than 200 hours of original programing a year, Here! TV has given the go-ahead to 12 original movies and four original series.

The Here! TV original series include "Dante's Cove," a gay and lesbian Gothic horror thriller currently filming in the Caribbean, and "Weapons of Mass Destruction," a spy thriller starring Cynthia Rothrock (news) as a lesbian action hero.

Hispanic TV Network Stands by Show on Ex-‘Gays’

http://www.cwfa.org/articles/5488/CFI/family/index.htm

4/12/2004
By Martha Kleder

Univision holds its ground, despite fire from homosexual activists.

Univision, the nation’s largest Spanish-language television network, is standing by its new talk show, Casos de Familia, despite criticism from homosexual activists. On March 25, the show topic was “curing homosexuality with religion.”

“We broadcast quality programs that present an objective and balanced discussion of such issues as race, culture, gender and sexual preference in a responsible way,” said Univision statement.

“I hope they hang tough,” said Robert Knight, director of CWA’s Culture & Family Institute. “Most broadcasters don’t have the courage to withstand the kind of lobbying that homosexual activists inflict on their targets. To them, tolerance is a one-way street from which you can make only left turns.”

Talk show on Univisión angers gay rights groups

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/8370894.htm?1c

Univisión's 'Casos de Familia' talk show provokes outrage among gay rights groups and Pizza Hut, one of its major advertisers.

BY CHRISTINA HOAG

The controversial topic of converting gays to straights through religion has landed Univisión and its new national talk show, Casos de Familia, in hot water with gay rights groups and Pizza Hut.

The debate was sparked by the March 25 program that featured the theme of ''curing'' homosexuality with religion. Univisión said it did not intend to offend anyone with the program.

During the show, hostess Judith Grace suggested that people are homosexual because they were abused or raped as children, according to the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.

Viacom Puts ‘Gay’ TV on the Fast Track

http://www.cwfa.org/articles/5469/CFI/pornography/index.htm 4/7/2004
By Martha Kleder

Viacom mogul Sumner Redstone estimates that a “gay-”themed cable channel would “be worth a billion dollars right now"—if he had launched the channel two years ago, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

Redstone’s comments came in a conference call to investors and analysts on March 29, 2004, where he apologized for putting plans for a “gay” channel on hold, a mistake he says he won’t repeat. He said the channel would have cost $30 million at startup.

He has ordered Tom Freston, chairman and chief executive of MTV networks, to get such a station on the air as soon as possible.

Viacom in Talks to Develop Gay Network

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/3/30/165755.shtml

NewsMax.com Wires
Tuesday, March 30, 2004
MEXICO CITY – Viacom is in preliminary discussions to launch a gay cable network in the United States, the media giant's chairman and chief executive said Tuesday.

Sumner Redstone's conglomerate has also "tightened up" its decency standards in the wake of Janet Jackson's racy performance at halftime of the Super Bowl.

Global TV Allies Itself with Homosexual "Marriage" Agenda

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/mar/040317.html

Calling for a "gay male couple…to be featured on an episode of their new series MoneyWise"
TORONTO, March 17, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Global TV has decided to espouse the same-sex "marriage" cause -- a request found on Toronto's homosexual marriage website reads: "Global Television is looking for a gay male couple who would like to be featured on an episode of their new series MoneyWise: Money MakeOver. On this show we give people, couples or families financial makeovers. On each one hour show, we feature one person or one couple."

Spoof full of straightforward fun

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/headline/entertainment/2415236

Feb. 23, 2004, 9:50AM

By MIKE McDANIEL
Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle
Hold on to your Moschino, boys; straight guys have their eyes on you.

Their names are Curtis, Billy, Kyle and Rob, and their idea of a good time is turning queers into peers.

Ellen talk show a hit minus the politics

Associated Press, February 17, 2004
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/tv/aptv_story.asp?category=1401&slug=People%20
Ellen%20DeGeneres

NEW YORK - Ellen DeGeneres' syndicated daytime talk show is a hit
despite what she admits is a lack of personal interest in Topic A for some
other TV comedians - the Democratic presidential primary.
"I haven't even been paying attention. I'm not a political person.
... I don't know enough about what's going on to say anything," DeGeneres
tells Time magazine in the Feb. 23 issue, out Monday.

Conservative TV Network Partners with Fox for Added Value, Right

Religion Today Summaries – February 17, 2004
Compiled & Edited by Crosswalk News Staff
http://link.crosswalk.com/UM/T.asp?A1.15.19154.1.1479809
Allie Martin, Agape Press

A Christian cable network is expanding its lineup to help believers
better influence the culture for Christ. Executives with FamilyNet, the
television subsidiary of the North American Mission Board of the
Southern Baptist Convention, announced its plans during the National
Religious Broadcasters convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. The
expanded fall lineup will include alliances with Fox News and
conservative Christian personalities such as radio commentator Janet
Parshall, Jay Sekulow of the American Center for Law and Justice, and
Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family.

FRC Attracts Widespread Media Attention in Boston

FRC Attracts Widespread Media Attention in Boston

It has certainly been a busy few days here in Boston. In addition to making speeches, attending rallies, participating in debates and lobbying lawmakers, Genevieve Wood and I have been fortunate enough to make FRC the leading national voice on the marriage debate. In addition to my appearances on ABC's "World News Tonight" and MSNBC's "Scarborough Country," and Genevieve's appearances on NPR and the Boston-based New England Cable Network, we have been inundated with requests from print reporters. In the last 24 hours I've been interviewed by The New York Times, Washington Post, Washington Times, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, WORLD Magazine, The Los Angeles Times and many others. Because of your support, FRC's presence in the nation's media is unmatched by any other similar organization. Check a newspaper near you tomorrow to read our comments on the marriage debate.

FRC Media Update - FRC on TV Tonight

So far, we are scheduled to appear on the following television programs
this afternoon/evening:

4:30pm (ET): Pat Trueman debates FCC indecency hearings on CNN's
"Crossfire".

9:00pm (ET): Genevieve Wood debates same-sex "marriage" live from
Boston on MSNBC's "Deborah Norville Tonight."

10:00pm (ET): Tony Perkins debates same-sex "marriage" live from
Boston on MSNBC's "Scarborough Country."

FRC Media Update - FRC's Tony Perkins and Genevieve In the Media Tonight (2/4/2004)

FRC's Tony Perkins and Genevieve Wood will be on television and radio tonight discussing today's decision by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to uphold same-sex "marriage." This decision comes at a critical time as we wait for a vote on February 11th from the Massachusetts state legislature.

Tony Perkins will be live radio guest on tonight's "Primetime America" from 5:15-5:30pm (ET)/4:15-4:30pm (CT). "Primetime America" airs on the Moody Broadcasting radio Network.

Tony Perkins will also appear on the "CBS Evening News." Check your local listings for time and channel.

Tony Perkins will appear again on CNN's "Paula Zahn Now" which airs from 8-9:00pm (ET). His segment is expected to air around 8pm (ET). Then catch him again when he will be featured in a news package on CNN's
"Newsnight with Aaron Brown" which airs from 10-11:00pm (ET).

Genevieve Wood will appear on CNBC's "News w/Brian Williams" which airs from 8-9:00pm (ET).