In respect to '''homosexuality in the media''', in the [[Western World]] the media is generally accepting of homosexuality to the extent that is socially acceptable to its readers. For example, the [[Traditional Values Coalition]] states the following regarding the reporting of [[homosexuality]] and the [[United States]] media:
{{cquote|The [[National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association]] has hundreds of members and is heavily funded by [[Hearst Corporation|Hearst newspapers]], [[Knight-Ridder]], [[CBS News]], [[CNN]], [[Gannett Company|Gannett]], [[NBC]], [[Los Angeles Times]], [[Fox News]], and more. Major newspapers throughout the U.S. have homosexual activists on their staffs who filter what you read about homosexuality.<ref>http://www.traditionalvalues.org/pdf_files/Homosexuality101.pdf</ref>}}
[[Image:Farah.jpg|thumbnail|200px|[[Joseph Farah]]]]
In regards to how much influence the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association has with respect to homosexuality in the media, the organization [[Accuracy in Media]] reported the following from the group's 1999 annual convention: "In his keynote speech, journalist Charles Kaiser boasted that "the editor and the publisher of every major news organization in America, except for [[Peter Jennings]], has by now attended [one of our events].""<ref name="aim3367">http://www.aim.org/media_monitor/A3367_0_2_0_C/</ref>

[[Joseph Farah]], who founded [[WorldNetDaily]], wrote an article on the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association (NGJA) in which he stated that he had covered the group for some time.<ref name="wnd">http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=15046</ref> However, it wasn't until their 10th anniversary that the shed the guise of portraying themselves as an objective professional organization that promotes higher journalistic standards in regards to the issue of homosexuality and showed themselves as promoters of a [[Homosexual Agenda|homosexual activist agenda]] that attempts to gain special rights.<ref name="wnd" />

In September of 2000, Mr. Farah stated the following regarding the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association:
{{cquote|It is...a group that has bent so far toward changing the newsroom culture that the big debate in [[San Francisco]] was whether journalists should even bother getting other points of view on homosexuals' issues and stories.

Did you catch that? What was on the table at the NLGJA conference was the question of whether those with differing viewpoints on homosexuality and the special "rights" activists are asserting for them based on their behavior should even have a say in news stories.

CBS correspondent and NLJGA member Jeffrey Kofman made his thinking clear: "The argument (is): Why do we constantly see in coverage of gay and lesbian, [[bisexual]] and [[transgender]] issues the homophobes and the fag-haters quoted in stories when, of course, we don't do that with Jews, blacks, et cetera?"

Paula Madison, vice president of diversity at NBC and news director for the NBC's New York City affiliate WNBC, added: "I agree with him. I don't see why we would seek out ... the absurd, inane point of view just to get another point of view."

Kofman rejoined: "All of us have seen and continue to see a lot of coverage that includes perspectives on gay issues that include people who just simply are intolerant and perhaps not qualified as well."

This was [[Political Correctness|political correctness]] gone wild. <ref name="wnd" />}}

Joseph Farah makes an excellent point above regarding journalist objectivity and homosexual activist journalist given the American Media's unwillingness to cover some of the unpleasant [[Homosexuality Statistics|facts about homosexuality]]. For example, John Cloud is a homosexual activist who writes for [[Time magazine]] and wrote the October 10, 1995 cover story for Time Magazine which was entitled “The Battle Over [[Teen Homosexuality|Gay Teens]].”<ref name="trv">http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2460</ref> John Cloud’s article rendered a positive portrayal homosexual teens who are establishing networks of Gay Straight Alliance clubs on campuses all over the United States.<ref name="trv" /> According to the Traditional Values Coalition, most readers of Time magazine were unaware that John Cloud is a homosexual who had previously written for the [[liberal]] Washington City Paper in Washington, DC. about his visit to a "homosexual sex orgy club in Washington, DC."<ref name="trv" />

[[Accuracy in Media]] stated the following regarding a convention of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association:
{{cquote|Media organizations which underwrote the convention included NBC News, Times Inc., Turner Broadcasting, Knight-Ridder, the Washington Post and Fox News Network. That’s right - Fox News. This is supposed to be a conservative network. ABC, NBC, CBS, the New York Times, and USA Today all sent recruiters to the event, to hire open gays as journalists. Fitzpatrick comments, "By treating the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association as a legitimate counterpart to black and Hispanic journalists’ associations, these media organizations showed that they agree with the notion that homosexuals, a group defined by behavior rather than immutable characteristics, constitute a bona fide minority."<ref name="aim3367" />}}
===Homosexuality in the Media and the Influence of the New York Times===
[[Image:Arthursulzbergerjr.jpg|right|thumb|Arthur Sulzberger Jr.]]
[[John Stossel]] is an author, consumer reporter, and a co-anchor for the [[ABC News]] show [[20/20]]. [[Cybercast News Service]] states the following regarding regarding the influence of the [[New York Times]] and [[Washington Post]] on other media:
{{cquote|While the newspapers reach only a fraction of people compared to the television networks, he said radio and television producers rely heavily on their contents.

"The reason the Times, and to a lesser extent the Post, are so important, and they are, is because the TV and radio - all of the media - copy it sycophantically," he [John Stossel] said. "That's how bias at the Times becomes bias in other media."<ref>http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200401/CUL20040128a.html</ref>}}

In regards to the issue of homosexuality and the New York Times, the [[New York Times|New York Times clearly promotes the homosexual agenda]].<ref name="aim3014">http://www.aim.org/media_monitor/A3014_0_2_0_C/</ref><ref>http://www.cnsnews.com/facts/2007/facts2007914.asp</ref><ref>http://www.aim.org/media_monitor/A1442_0_2_0_C/</ref> Accuracy in Media quotes a report by [[Peter LaBarbera]] stating that Richard Berke, the national political correspondent for the New York Times, made an appearance on behalf of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association and revealed that three-quarters of the people who now decide what goes on the front page of the New York Times are "not so closeted homosexuals."<ref name="aim3014" />

===Coverage of the Murders of Jesse Dirkhising and Matthew Shephard===
Accuracy in Media states the following regarding [[Liberal bias|liberal media bias]] in regards to the issue of homosexuality in the media:
{{cquote|A year ago we had raised the issue of [[Jesse Dirkhising]], the 13 year-old boy who was raped and murdered by two homosexuals in Arkansas in September 1999. The media's general failure to cover the murder stands in sharp contrast to the massive coverage of the death of [[Matthew Shepard]], the gay college student in Wyoming. The Times [New York Times] hadn't published a word on the Dirkhising case.<ref>http://www.aim.org/media_monitor/A1006_0_2_0_C/</ref>}}

In respect to the issue of homosexuality, the case of [[Matthew Shepard]] [[Hate crime|was likely not a hate crime according to one of the leading police investigators for the murder]].<ref>http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Story?id=277685&page=3</ref>

[[NewsMax]] reported the following regarding the cases of Dirkhising and Shephard:
{{cquote|McGowan did a Nexus search and learned that the Shepard case generated a massive 3,007 stories. "And when the case finally went to trial ... it was all over the broadcast news, received front-page coverage in all major newspapers, and was featured on the cover of Time magazine. (In all, the New York Times ran 195 stories about the case.)

"In the month after the Dirkhising murder, however, Nexus recorded only 46 stories...

He sums up by quoting the surprisingly candid [[Andrew Sullivan]] - an openly gay columnist for the liberal [[New Republic]].

Wrote Sullivan: "The Shepard case was hyped for political reasons: to build support for inclusion of homosexuals in a federal [[hate crimes]] law. The Dirkhising case was ignored for political reasons: squeamishness about reporting a story that could feed anti-gay prejudice and the lack of any pending legislation to hang a story on ... Some deaths - if they affect a politically protected class - are worth more than others. Other deaths, those that do not fit a politically correct profile, are left to oblivion."<ref name="newsmax">http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/2/8/165348.shtml</ref>}}

==Fox News Channel and the Issue of Homosexuality==
As noted earlier, [[Accuracy in Media]] stated the following regarding the Fox News Channel:
{{cquote|Media organizations which underwrote the convention included NBC News, Times Inc., Turner Broadcasting, Knight-Ridder, the Washington Post and Fox News Network. That’s right - Fox News. This is supposed to be a conservative network.<ref name="aim3367" />}}

The American Family Association reported the following in regards to [[Bill O'Reilly]] who host the O"Reilly Report which is a popular program on the Fox News Channel:
{{cquote|On February 11, 2004, Bill O'Reilly, host of The O'Reilly Factor on the Fox News Channel, featured Kevin Jennings, the executive director of GLSEN (the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network.) Jennings, former teacher turned homosexual activist, along with a lesbian counterpart, discussed GLSEN's new pro-homosexual curriculum on marriage being marketed to children and youth in public schools all across America under the guise of "tolerance."...

O'Reilly, watched heavily by conservatives and Christians alike, shocked much of his constituency on September 3, 2002 when he publicly announced his support of homosexual special rights in the nation's largest “gay” publication, The Advocate. His controversial interview is one he probably wishes would just go away. His sympathetic, emotionally based views on “gay” adoption and his mixed-message stance on “gay” marriage have caused great dissent among his loyalists - and no doubt cost him viewers.<ref>http://www.afa.net/homosexual_agenda/GetArticle.asp?id=115</ref>}}

[[WorldNetDaily]] stated the following regarding O'Reilly and his exchange with the [[Ex-Homosexuals|ex-homosexual]] and evangelical minister Stephen Bennett:
{{cquote|Fox News is threatening to sue a prominent evangelical minister in the ex-homosexual movement who engaged in a volatile exchange over biblical morality on the top-rated television program "The O'Reilly Factor" in September.

Stephen Bennett, who says he left his homosexual lifestyle nearly 11 years ago, has distributed a 60-minute audio tape program called the "The O'Reilly Shocker," in which he responds to host Bill O'Reilly's characterization of people who take the Bible literally as "religious fanatics."...

Bennett said he has received hundreds of e-mails from viewers of the segment who said they were outraged at O'Reilly's "anger and verbal abuse." <ref>http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30300</ref>}}

In response to the threatened lawsuit of the Fox News Channel the Agape Press reported the following:
{{cquote|But Mike DePrimo, senior litigation counsel for the American Family Association Center for Law & Policy, which represents Bennett, says Bennett has a right to distribute a recording of the program -- and that his use of the tape is legal under copyright law's allowance of fair use and comment.

"The law provides that even copyrighted material may be used, provided it's used not for commercial gain but for comment," DePrimo says. "Stephen Bennett used the material from the O'Reilly show simply to rebut the arguments O'Reilly put forward."

The attorney implies there may be another reason the popular O'Reilly wants distribution of the tape stopped -- and it has to do with image. "O'Reilly promotes himself as a [[conservative]]," DePrimo explains. "In fact, Bennett's tape shows that O'Reilly is simply another media elite who's advancing the [[Homosexual Agenda|homosexual agenda]] -- and he doesn't want to be exposed for what he is."<ref>http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/1/afa/32003a.asp</ref>}}
==Washington Times Reports American Backlash Against Media Coverage of Homosexuality==
The [[Media Research Center]] reported the following regarding a 2003 news story by the [[Washington Times]]:
{{cquote|Washington Times - "Homosexuality seen as accepted by media," by Julia Duin
July 29, 2003

...Last night, "Boy Meets Boy," a dating game for homosexual men where some straight men are thrown into the mix, aired on [[NBC]]'s Bravo cable channel. This came on the heels of "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," another new Bravo show that last week got bumped up to prime time Thursday, the same night that NBC airs its homosexual-themed sitcom "Will & Grace."... But there has been a backlash against homosexuality, according to a poll released yesterday by [[USA Today]]....opposition to same-sex "marriages" had risen to 57 percent, the most opposition since the question was first posed in 2000. "People feel there is a wave coming, so there's a resistance," said Tim Graham, an analyst with the Media Research Center. "People ask if anyone is going to fight. This [[White House]] won't. The [[George Bush|Bush]] administration knows what the media hot buttons are."<ref>http://www.mediaresearch.org/inthenews/2003/news0703.asp</ref>}}
==Homosexuality in the Media and Viewers Opinions==
In June of 2007, [[Human Events]] reported the following:
{{cquote|A new special report by the Culture and Media Institute (CMI) indicates that watching too much television could be hazardous to your moral health.

The report, The Media Assault on American Values, reveals that media messages appear to be undermining the pillars of America’s cultural edifice: strength of character, sexual morality and respect for God. The report is based on findings of a major scientific survey commissioned by CMI, a division of the Media Research Center.

The National Cultural Values Survey reveals a striking correlation between greater exposure to television and permissive moral views. Heavy television viewers (four hours or more per evening) are less committed to character virtues like honesty and charity, and more permissive about [[sex]], [[abortion]] and [[homosexuality]]. Light television viewers (one hour or less per evening) are more likely to attend religious services and live their lives by [[God]]’s principles....

Ten Americans believe Hollywood is harming the nation’s moral condition for every one who thinks Hollywood is helping.<ref>http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=21069</ref>}}

==Prevalence of Homosexuality in American Television Media==
In October of 2007 the pro-homosexuality [[Journal of Homosexuality]] published a journal article about the prevalence of homosexual and bisexual content in television. Below is an excerpt from the journal article abstract:
{{cquote|Two annual content analyses of programming from the 2001-2002 and 2002-2003 television seasons...were conducted to assess the presence of behaviors and verbal messages related to the sexuality of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals. Sexual content associated with nonheterosexuals was found in about 15% of programs overall; however, rates of occurrence within episodes were low. Of 14 genres, only movies and variety/comedy shows had substantial percentages of programs that contained nonheterosexual content. Programs on commercial broadcast networks were less likely to have nonheterosexual content than those on cable networks, especially those on premium cable movie networks.<ref>http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/haworth/jh/2007/00000052/F0020003/art00008;jsessionid=1id6c8peakf5e.alice?format=print</ref>}}

In August of 2007, the Baptist Press reported the following regarding homosexuality in the media:
{{cquote|As previously reported in Baptist Press, the [[Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation]] (GLAAD) released Aug. 6 its first-ever "Network Responsibility Index" which examined the inclusion of "lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender" themes or characters on TV.

The index found that 15 percent of all of ABC's primetime programming hours during a 12-month span contained either homosexual characters or the discussion of homosexuality. The CW was second at 12 percent, followed by CBS (9 percent), NBC (7 percent) and Fox (6 percent). For their content ABC was rated "good," the CW, CBS and NBC "fair" and Fox "poor."...

Television's positive portrayal has certainly contributed to the rise in the acceptance of homosexuality as natural, normal and healthy.<ref>http://www.bpnews.net/BPFirstPerson.asp?ID=26269</ref>}}

However, there may have been a backlash or public pressure against the promotion of homosexuality vis a vis network television and the college newspaper ''The Loquitur'' reported the following in October of 2007:
{{cquote|Network television has begun to cancel homosexual characters from their sitcoms while cable television has cast more this year. The organization, Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, GLAAD, is in upset over the decrease of homosexual characters on network television.<ref>http://media.www.theloquitur.com/media/storage/paper226/news/2007/10/11/AE/Sitcoms.Cancel.Homosexuality-3033576.shtml</ref>}}

==Homosexuality in the Media and American History==
In 2002, [[NewsMax]] reported the following regarding homosexuality and the media in regards to how the United States press used to cover the homosexuality issue:
{{cquote|Four decades ago, media coverage of homosexuality was universally hostile. McGowan recalls Time magazine's description of homosexuality as a "pathetic little second-rate substitute for reality, a pitiable flight from life" deserving "no encouragement, no glamorization, no rationalization, no fake status as minority martyrdom, no sophistry about simple differences in taste, and above all no pretence that it is anything but a pernicious sickness."

Straight News quoted [[Mike Wallace]] as calling the [http://www.conservapedia.com/Homosexuality#Homosexuality_and_Promiscuity average homosexual "promiscuous"] and "not interested in or capable of a lasting relationship like that of a heterosexual.<ref name="newsmax" />}}

The pro-homosexuality [[Journal of Homosexuality]] also stated the following regarding the homosexuality and television media: "Before 1970, almost no gay characters could be found on television, and their relative absence from the screen continued until the 1990s..."<ref>http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2000838</ref>

==See Also==
*[[Homosexuality Research]]
*[[Homosexuality]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Homosexuality]]
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[[Category:Liberal Bias]]
[[Category:Homosexual Agenda]]
[[Category:Liberal Deceit]]

Sex education

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GeneralGrievous:

'''Sex Education''' is classroom instruction on [[human reproduction]] and [[sexuality]]. It is one of the hottest cultural issues in American politics, with [[liberal]]s and some conservatives favoring "science-based" (comprehensive) teaching on aspects of abstinence and birth control methods, as well as reproductive organs. A lot of conservatives, especially social conservatives, favor abstinence-only sex education, with no mention of contraception or birth control except in relation to their failure rates. Other conservatives are against sex education (in schools) altogether, taking the "[[moral]]" side and wanting as little mention of sex in classrooms as possible, leaving parents to instruct their children as to sexual morality and information relating to sex and reproductive organs.

Studies have not shown that abstinence-only education produces successful outcomes.<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/13/AR2007041301003.html Study Casts Doubt on Abstinence-Only Programs]</ref> According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, "Abstinence-only programs have not demonstrated successful outcomes with regard to delayed initiation of sexual activity or use of safer sex practices.... Programs that encourage abstinence as the best option for adolescents, but offer a discussion of HIV prevention and contraception as the best approach for adolescents who are sexually active, have been shown to delay the initiation of sexual activity and increase the proportion of sexually active adolescents who reported using birth control."<ref>http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/108/2/498</ref>

Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, argues that abstinence-only sex education leads to the opposite of the intended results by spreading ignorance regarding sexually-transmitted diseases and the proper use of contraceptives to prevent both infections and pregnancy.<ref>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9504871/</ref>

In England the National Curriculum www.dfes.gov.uk requires all schools to offer comprehensive sex education as part of Personal, Social and Health Education, from middle school on, but parents may choose to not have their children attend sex education classes.

==References==
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