From: SteveWard6@aol.com Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 10:03:57 -0500 (EST) Subject: Fwd: "ABC/Disney Pushes Homosexuality Full-Throttle" Thought you all might be interested in this tid-bit. While I have no doubt that Disney and ABC as well as Ellen D have all wilking this to death (exploiting us along the way)---a Lesbian lead in a sit-com will go a long way for Lesbian visibility. Did anyone notice that the mass media, hardly mentioned the bar bombed in Atlanta was Lesbian. Then we could also ask will heterosexual men tune in to watch two women interact sexually? Will Ellen's writers deal ruin the straight man fantasy by including Gay male characters that are clearly sexual? Just some thoughts and question. Back to the campaign... Steve Michael --------------------- Forwarded message: From: bud@berean.net (Buddy Smith) Sender: owner-afa-alert@berean.net To: afa-alert@berean.net Date: 97-03-05 22:36:15 EST The AFA Alert is a one-way list. Responses will not be posted to the list. AFA ACTION ALERT American Family Association <>< P.O. Drawer 2440 Tupelo, Mississippi 38803 Telephone: 601/844-5036 Fax: 601/844-9176 Email: bud@afa.net World Wide Web: http://www.afa.net ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ PRESS RELEASE AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION Contact: Tim Wildmon 601/844-5036 For Immediate Release March 4, 1997 ABC/DISNEY PUSHES HOMOSEXUALITY FULL-THROTTLE TUPELO, MS -- American Family Association (AFA) has announced its objection to ABC television's decision to finally make Ellen DeGeneres' character on her popular prime-time sitcom announce her lesbianism. ELLEN will become the first in netwrok history to have a homosexual lead character. AFA vice-president Tim Wildmon said, "After hyping the media since last September, Disney and ABC have finally decided to scorn the moral sensibilities of millions of Americans. We will be publicizing the advertisers who are willing to push the homosexual agenda." The April 30 episode is scheduled for production this week, and will show the main character, Ellen Morgan, coming to grips with her sexual orientation, according to USA TODAY. She discovers that she is attracted to a woman, played by Laura Dern (Jurassic Park), and goes to see a therapist, played by Oprah Winfrey. Disney's push to promote homosexuality through ABC programming was corroborated by Brent Bozell of the Media Researach Center. He told the listening audience on American Family Radio that last May "Michael Eisner, the head of Disney, called Matt Williams, the producer for HOME IMPROVEMENT, and told him that he wanted him to put in two new characters. They were to be a gay couple, moving in next door to Tim Allen's family on that show. Why? Because they wanted to give this gay couple prominence and then after a couple seasons spin them off into their own show." According to Bozell, Williams, and later Tim Allen, the star of HOME IMOROVEMENT, refused Eisner's request, saying it would destroy the show. But Eisner has apparently found a willing collaborator in DeGeneres. =================================================== "Bringing Truth to the Information Super Highway" Please tell a friend about the AFA ACTION ALERT Register on the World Wide Webb: http://www.afa.net **** To subscribe to afa-alert send an e-mail to majordomo@berean.net with "subscribe afa-alert" (without the quotes) in the body of the message. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@berean.net with "unsubscribe afa-alert your@email.address" in the body of the message. Do not include the quotes, and replace your@email.address with your correct e-mail address.