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." the rest