I bring this up because of something that I saw yesterday while visiting my son at his school. Most of his dorm mates were off on an outing, but several kids stayed behind. We gave our son the choice of going out for lunch or having a pizza delivered. He decided that he wanted to stay in the dorm, so we went ahead and had a pizza delivered for our lunch.
While we waited for the delivery to arrive and while we ate our lunch, the other kids in the dorm recreation room were watching some Disney movies on the ABC Family station. At one point, I was watching the television and I saw two women engaging in a romantic kiss. The station was promoting one of their new programs which features a lesbian couple raising a family together.
I was shocked. Not because there was such a show being produced, but because it was being promoted and shown on a station that proclaimed to be a "family channel." I was even more shocked because the promo was occurring during kid friendly Disney movies. Had the advertisement occurred on a station like Lifetime or Bravo, I wouldn't have batted an eye.
It used to be that subject matter of a more controversial or mature nature would only be shown later in the evening when kids would typically be sleeping and not watching television. Promotions for those shows would never be broadcast during what would be considered kid friendly programming. I guess those standards no longer apply.
I am not one of those who would call for a boycott of the channel or those that advertise on it. I don't watch the ABC Family channel, nor do I watch anything on ABC. After seeing the promotion yesterday, I am more inclined not to watch anything on those stations. It just shows that the entertainment industry is continuously trying to promote their liberal worldview on us, and forcing it on our kids with no regard.
