I am constantly amazed at the amount of double speak that is used to confuse the issue of homosexuality. I watch Dr. Phil and others like him, and hear them counsel parents about their toxic emotional effect on their kids concerning issues like divorce, drugs, suicide, and obesity. I hear them say that children or adults with those issues should look inside themselves and take charge of unhealthy behaviors. Then I hear them say to gays and parents with gay children that they should realize they were "born that way." Insinuating that environment and early childhood trauma have nothing to do with sexual identity. I hear them say that gay persons should accept their sexuality and stop trying to overcome this profoundly unhealthy experience. What are they thinking? Parents must know the world their kids are growing up in. Parents must be pro-active when it comes to the input that society and especially media have on their kids. -NSB
CINCINNATI, May 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- MTV's recent announcement that it plans to launch a network aimed primarily at lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender viewers underscores the reason parents should be able to choose the contents of their basic cable package. The advertiser-supported network, named LOGO, will be offered to cable customers in their basic cable package, giving parents no choice whether or not the content enters their home.
"A channel devoted entirely to promoting the homosexual agenda is in direct opposition to the values many parents seek to instill in their children," noted Rick Schatz, president and CEO of the National Coalition for the Protection of Children & Families. "Consumers deserve the ability to choose whether or not they want to pay for such a channel in their home."