http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/6/302005b.asp Parents Cautioned: Look Out for LOGO
Homosexual Cable Network Going Into Millions of Homes, Whether They Want
It or Not
By Mary Rettig and Jody Brown
June 30, 2005
(AgapePress) - The director of research for the American Family
Association (AFA) says parents need to be on the lookout for a new cable
network designed for homosexuals.
The new MTV network, LOGO, launches today (June 30) in about ten million
homes with digital cable in major metropolitan areas like Los Angeles,
New York, and Atlanta. It is designed to appeal to a "gay, lesbian,
bisexual, and transgender audience," and will feature such programming as
the Annual Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Awards,
Queer As Folk, and homosexual films.
Unlike other homosexual networks, LOGO will be available in homes without
paying any premium. AFA's Ed Vitagliano says that should pose a major
concern for parents.
"LOGO is going to be on local cable systems, not as a premium channel
like Showtime or HBO -- which you pay for if you want it. It is going to
be, at least in some markets, part of the general, regular [cable]
package," he says. "So what's going to happen is that parents are going
to find one day that, as their kids are flipping [the channels] to go to
Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon or something of that nature, they're going
to go past LOGO [and] the homosexual programming on that network."
Because of LOGO's connection with MTV, Dr. Janice Crouse of Concerned
Women for America fears teens, in particular, will be drawn to the
homosexual network. MTV, she says, endorses campaigns that have targeted
teens with "demagoguery."
"Now they are taking their activism a step further to indoctrinate our
children through a special gay network that will portray homosexual in a
positive, appealing way, legitimizing the homosexual lifestyle for
children in millions of American homes," Crouse says. "This is a sad day
for America's children. LOGO is another assault on our children's
innocence."
Vitagliano expects that as time goes on, programming on LOGO will drift
toward the explicit.
"I think maybe initially there will be an attempt to dampen that kind of
material -- but they are going to show homosexual films," he explains.
"There will be, for example, scenes of men kissing men and women kissing
women, even if it's not sexually explicit."
He warns parents that "right out of the gate" LOGO will have those kinds
of products. "That is going to be problematic for a lot of parents," he
says. "Those are things they don't want their kids seeing."
The pro-family researcher urges cable customers to call their cable
providers and tell them not to place the LOGO network on the general
cable package.
Sponsors of LOGO include Miller Lite, Motorola, Tylenol PM, Orbitz,
Subaru, Lions Gate Films, and Showtime Networks. Crouse chides sponsors
for putting their advertising dollars and their stamp of approval on a
"lifestyle that is not only immoral, but devastates lives by the diseases
it inflicts."
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