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ABC AND PRIMETIME LIVE ACCUSED OF PROMOTING GAY AGENDA Monday, April 4 2005 A Virginia couple has accused ABC News and its magazine program Primetime Live of setting them up for a forthcoming feature designed to "help further the homosexual agenda." Susan Farinholt has told CNSNews.com, a unit of the conservative Media Research Center, that they had originally been approached to appear on a program that would examine different parenting styles. She said that she and her husband did not learn until much later that another one of (more) MARGE SIMPSON'S SISTER IS GAY! Monday, February 21 2005 
Sunday's
episode
of
The
Simpsons,
in
which
it
was
revealed
that
Marge
Simpson's
sister
Patti
Bouvier
is
gay
("Just
because
you're
a
lesbian
doesn't
mean
you're
less
of
a
being",
says
Marge),
and
in
which
Homer
becomes
a
minister
and
begins
marrying
gay
couples,
telling
them
that
their
union
is
legal
in
"Massachusetts,
Vermont,
maybe
Canada
...
[but]
stay
out
of
Texas,"
was,
as
expected,
denounced
by
conservative
family-activist
groups
and
hailed
by
liberals
and
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University of Minnesota researchers have concluded that TV shows like Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Will & Grace, and Six Feet Under have had the effect of reducing prejudice against homosexuals among viewers. Some 150 students participated in the study, conducted by communications professors Edward Schiappa and Dean Hewes and graduate student Peter Gregg. "If they find gay characters attractive, physically or socially, this can contribute to them reducing their levels of prejudice," Schiappa told the St. Paul Pioneer Press. "We're not talking about changing bigots into saints here. We're talking about an overall scale of 10 to 20 percent of subjects whose attitudes changed." However, several religious groups maintain that such programs are designed to promote a gay agenda. Tom Prichard, president of the Minnesota Family Council, told the newspaper that if they "are trying to condone the lifestyle, that's what I would object to."
