TVC Blasts GLAAD's Pro-Homosexual Ad Campaign, CBS-TV's Complicity

by Jim Brown and Jenni Parker
May 9, 2006

(AgapePress) - - A conservative group is criticizing CBS Television for airing a pro-homosexual public service announcement during a daytime soap opera. The network was to air the PSA at the end of today's episode of As the World Turns, which featured a teen character who tells his parents he is homosexual.

The PSA urges viewers to "take a stand against the discrimination and prejudice faced by gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people." The spot is all part of a campaign by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) called "Be an ally and a friend."

Andrea Lafferty, executive director of the Traditional Values Coalition (TVC), says her group is unhappy with CBS's decision to use daytime television to promote homosexuality among teens. "Traditional Values Coalition thinks this is wrong," she says. "They also think it's unfair."

The TVC has offered to help CBS come up with a PSA that presents another point of view about homosexual individuals, Lafferty points out -- namely, "a view that you are not born that way and that you can come out of the homosexual lifestyle." But the network has decided to air GLAAD's spot, she says, "And so we are encouraging people to contact CBS and voice their concern about this biased move."

According to the pro-family spokeswoman, the organization behind the "Be an ally and a friend" campaign is one of the most dangerous homosexual activist groups around. This, she asserts, is due to its powerful influence over the mainstream media and Hollywood.

"We have to understand that GLAAD, this organization, is the reason that we have a lot of different homosexually-themed shows or characters [on television]," Lafferty says. Also, she contends, these activists wield influence over the news media and "even control the wording that journalists use in writing stories."

The TVC's executive director believes the message in today's scheduled PSA will be an attempt by the "gay and lesbian" activist group to stigmatize anyone who thinks homosexuality is immoral or abnormal. While "most people of faith believe homosexuality is a sinful behavior and that it can be healed," she asserts, "GLAAD is telling Americans that their religious beliefs are wrong."

But Lafferty says GLAAD is "seriously misleading" the public about the nature of homosexuality, and she maintains that the pro-family movement is, in many ways, letting the pro-homosexual group get away with it. "This has become a very powerful organization," she notes, "and part of the reason is Americans have not stood up and said, 'We object to this.'"

The Traditional Values Coalition feels GLAAD is using free advertising to push a message about homosexuality that is simply not true. The pro-family group's executive director points out that thousands of former homosexuals can attest to the fact that people are not born with that sexual orientation, and that change of one's homosexual orientation is possible.

Lafferty says Americans must reject GLAAD's "underlying religious bigotry." Meanwhile, she and her group are urging CBS affiliates to refuse to run the pro-homosexual organization's inaccurate public service announcements.