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Christian News and Media Agency Media Analyst Calls Soaps Transgender Character Addition Exploitive Ploy 2006-11-28 -- WDC Media News -- (AgapePress) - A media analyst is accusing ABC-TV of exploiting transgender people for shock value in efforts to boost ratings -- and homosexual activists of doing the same in order to advance their own agenda. The long-running ABC daytime soap opera All My Children is introducing a transgender character into the show this week. In a television first from the Disney-owned network, a male character on the show is going to be making the transition from being a man to becoming a woman. According to an Associated Press report, All My Children executive producer Julie Carruthers said the show was looking for something new and knows its audience is always interested in anything that has to do with sexuality. Carruthers also noted that her producers consulted with the homosexual group Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) in order to make sure the terms and references used in writing the character into the show were always appropriate. Bob Knight, director of the Culture and Media Institute at the Media Research Center, says the bottom line in this instance is that ABC believes it needs to push the envelope for higher ratings. And at the same time, he asserts, "I think we're at a stage now where the homosexual movement has to continually shock. They've saturated the airwaves with pro-homosexual imagery, so now they have to go to the next step, which is transgenderism."
Pro-homosexual ABC and Hollywood think Judeo-Christian standards are "just a holdover from a bigoted, superstitious era," the culture and media analyst contends, and as self-described progressives, they need to attack those faith-based values. "They are dedicated to tear down every moral standard," he says, "and they're now using the transgender people to do it." Meanwhile, Knight asserts, transgender individuals themselves are among the homosexual agenda's casualties. "I see these poor, sexually confused people as victims and pawns of a larger movement that wants to destroy Christianity and to turn America into a country we would no longer recognize," he says. Knight believes homosexual activists and their supporters realize that the homosexual lifestyle is so empty and devoid of meaning that the best they can do is to continue shocking people. And, as one AP report notes, even the editor of Soap Opera Weekly admits that in deciding to add a transgendered character on All My Children, the shows producers were simply "throwing a whole lot of desperate stuff against the wall to see what sticks." Jim Brown and Fred Jackson, regular contributors to AgapePress, report for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online. © 2006 AgapePress all rights reserved. |
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