Has America Lost Its "Moral Mind"?;

While You Were Sleeping was a movie several years ago about dramatic developments in a family when one of its members was in a coma. Were you sleeping last summer? Do you know what happened in the "American family"?;

by Cecil Maranville

One of the most-watched television programs in the United States in the summer of '03 was Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. NBC ran the program on its cable outlet and was surprised by the audience it drew. So, NBC executives decided to air a re-run on their regular network stations, which is backwards from the way this usually works. The response again surprised them, so they aired yet another rerun.

This is but one of many family-hour television shows whose programming catapults over the barrier of what used to be thought of as taboo only a few years ago. Gay themes dominated the summer programming in cable and reality channels. In addition to the above, the following were gay or had overtly gay themes: Boy Meets Boy, The Amazing Race, Chained, Survivor and Big Brother.

I think of the summer of 2003 as the time when America lost its moral mind.

It was the summer of "the kiss." Madonna, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera were performing at the annual MTV awards. Madonna turned to Britney and they exchanged an open-mouthed kiss, after which Madonna turned to Christina and they did likewise.

I did not watch the awards program, but was listening to a cable news show the next morning while preparing breakfast. When the reporter said, "Things got a little out of hand at the MTV awards last night," I reflexively looked up at the screen. I was sorry I did.

Network news, cable news and entertainment news shows repeated the scene countless times in the following days—and in doing so, lent credence to the deed as being newsworthy, as well as fit for viewing. In fact, neither is true.

This fall sees the addition of It's All Relative, a sitcom with a homosexual "couple." And cable will introduce the first lesbian-themed show, The L Word.

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