Daytime TV and the Homosexual Agenda

Most of the time, I judge people who watch soap operas. And I work hard to make sure everyone around me knows that I'm too good to watch TV. But the American Family Association is dragging me out of the closet again.

Ok, ok...I do have this one guilty obsession: the CBS soap opera As the World Turns has been developing a love story between two men, Luke and Noah. And someone (God bless him!) has been recording just the segments of the show that pertain to their relationship and uploading them to YouTube. Currently, it's broken into 160 parts, and I am SO hooked!

Over the course of Luke and Noah's relationship, CBS has only shown the couple kissing three times, as opposed to the HUNDREDS of kisses between all the heteros. Each time they kiss, the AFA rears its ugly, homophobic head and organizes a bunch of bigots to contact sponsor Procter & Gamble to complain. After the recent kiss on April 23, the AFA is asking P&G to completely remove Luke and Noah from the show. So this time, we're fighting back.

P&G has already received so many phone calls about this issue that they've set up a menu option for people to register their support or opposition to the storyline.

Here are three simple actions you can take:

1. Call P&G at 1.800.331.3774. Then press 2 to get to the As the World Turns survey. Finally, press 1 to ask P&G to continue the Luke and Noah storyline.

(Alternatively, press 0 for the operator and request that they remove all the straight characters from the show. Seriously, Luke and Noah are the only ones worth watching.)

2. Use the online form that the AFA set up to send an email to P&G Chairman Alan Lafley. You can edit the content of the letter that the AFA created. Just a few little changes, and you can turn their mean-spirited message into a message of diversity and equality! I suggest the following content for your letter:

Subject: Thank you for Luke and Noah!

Dear Mr. Lafley,

I am very pleased that Procter & Gamble has created a storyline to show the relationship between Luke and Noah on "As the World Turns." The kiss between Luke and Noah on April 23 suggests that you are making a shift to portray their relationship honestly, and that you are treating this couple the same way that you treat heterosexual couples.

Overall, I am also very pleased that you are portraying Luke and Noah as healthy young men with compassion and integrity. I hope to see more positive gay characters like them in the future.

3. The AFA uploaded the clip of the April 23 kiss to YouTube. They link to it from their site, with the disclaimer "WARNING - content is repulsive!" I'd like to tell them that I disagree with them, but the AFA disabled commenting on this video. Go figure! But...we can still rate the video. So check out the video that the AFA uploaded, and give it a 5 star rating.

And as a special thanks for taking action:

Luke and Noah Kiss #1
Luke and Noah Kiss #2

 

Comments

[fetacheese]

thanks for this! went to their site, was IMMEDIATELY repulsed, but endured it long enough to send the email and such. they sound like complete freaks! happy to help :)

[LarryMcD]

Done and Done and thank you. Gave it 5 stars, posted it as a favorite, and added it to my playlists.

Then I sent an email to AFA thanking them for bringing that "really hot" clip to my attention.

Reminds me of the days when whackos of this ilk sent our small town Southern church flyers that listed all the dirty words in "Lady Chatterly's Lover" and the page numbers in the paperback where the sexiest passages took place. I can't tell you what a grateful little Baptist I was when I found a copy somebody'd left in a hymnal... a friend had already passed along his big brother's copy of the book and I didn't have to read the whole thing before I gave it back.

[wwoodsm]

Thank you. Great article.

I think using the AFA's website to send a positive message is great.... so much so that I did just that. Hopefully, Donald Wildmon will never catch on. How could he when he has his head firmly lodged in a totally dark place.

My father subscribed to the AFA's newletter for years and sent money to AFA regularly. Unfortunately, or fortunately, I never came out to him before he died. And I never regretted my decision. But because of organizations like AFA and Focus on the Family, I'm out to everyone now.

[Kip Williams - Huffpost Blogger]

Thank you so much for sharing this powerful story. My father was a fundamentalist Southern Baptist. I came out to him in a pretty radical way and found - much to my surprise - that he rose to the challenge and loved and supported me unconditionally. He died three years ago, pretty soon after I came out to him, and I'm really grateful that we had that experience. It helped heal a lot of pain in our relationship.

On the other hand, I'm really glad that you don't regret your decision. It sounds like you're at peace with it. And like you, the blatant bigotry of groups like the AFA is why I come out and stay out of the closet all day, every day.

[Aramingo]

Yeah! who do these homosexuals think they are? Wanting to be treated like everybody else. The nerve!

For you literalsts out there, that's irony and sarcasm.

The only question I have is: How many times can we send the editted letter?

[MsLiz]

I think what Donald Wildmon and the homophobes are afraid of is that people will start to think it is normal for gay people to exist. Luke is a core character on ATWT, the son of a primary family. The actors playing Luke and Noah are quite good. Viewers can get used to seeing this couple together, and like them!

[Jude2004]

You should check out the scene on YouTube where one male vampire turns his friend back into a vampire from last week's Moonlight. Pretty amazing stuff for network television. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltxO1j4ZeZQ
The AFA probably doesn't understand human sexuality in general, let alone homosexuality. To them, sex is power, and power must be kept in the male dominant/female submissive category. To them, all the rest is just wrong.

[JamieFrevele]

I freaking hate soap operas, but I'll totally support this. If I can stomach going to the AFA site, maybe I'll do that too. But definitely the phone call. Rock on!