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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.