American Idol judges Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez take part in a panel discussion in Pasadena, Calif. (AP Images/Chris Pizzello) |
In January of 2010, I claimed
that the FOX TV show American Idol hired Ellen DeGeneres to fight the
rumors within Hollywood that the show was anti-gay; this after the more
talented Adam Lambert lost the competition to a “Teen-Beat”
hetero-dreamboat.
Idol‘s producers allowed DeGeneres to drive the show into the ground to
appease a flaming Hollywood minority. Eventually profit-minded heads
prevailed and the gay activist was replaced after one horrendous season.
Idol‘s producers had paid their alms to Hollywood’s Gay-McCarthyites and
thought they were in the clear. Not so fast claims Idol-rival co-host
Adam Levine, a judge on The Voice. This week Levine charged that Idol was not doing enough to
promote gay contestants. What does he want, pink-triangle armbands to
tell viewers who is gay and who is straight?
Should Levine get his way and Idol steps up its promotion of
identifiable homosexual contestants, I guarantee that will not be the
final demand. Next season someone else will complain that the
contestants were not gay enough. Perhaps we need a sliding scale, with
an independent panel awarding levels of homosexuality based on
flamboyant expressiveness and on-the-record out-of-the-closet dramatic
statements.
But what if someone fakes being a homosexual to earn the pink armband?
How do we know what gender each contestant truly desires? We need a
certification process lest the talent pool is contaminated with that
rarest of all gay performers, the male-lesbian. We will need the
casting couch reinstated to insure same-sex sexual preference purity.
I hope I have illustrated the idiocy of attempting to accommodate a
militant homosexual agenda, even by a television production. Once we
make how one fakes procreation into a class, let alone a “minority,” we
have shown ourselves to be fools indeed.
Gary McCullough is director of Christian Newswire.
