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Civil Union: Networks Promoting Gay Agenda
By Matthew Philbin
November 14, 2012
According to exit polling of the 2012 election, just 5 percent of voters who turned out were gay. Yet voters said their states should legalize same-sex marriage by 49 percent to 46 percent. Indeed, social issues like gay marriage and the media-concocted war on women probably gave President Obama his margin of victory.
Consider another figure: According to a May 2011 Gallup poll, most U.S. adults estimate that 25 percent of Americans are gay or lesbian. In reality, the number of people who identify themselves that way is just 3.4 percent, according to a Gallup survey released in October 2012. But its understandable that so many people might overestimate the number.
Gay issues are sympathetically presented everywhere in the media. From gay characters and themes in movies and TV to journalists crusading for same-sex marriage, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) topics command an ever-increasing share of attention.
When New York Times Public Editor Arthur Brisbane admitted the papers liberal bias in his final column in August 2012, he wrote that issues like gay marriage seem almost to erupt in The Times, overloved and undermanaged, more like causes than news subjects. Brisbanes example, gay marriage, wasnt chosen at random. Print, electronic and broadcast media have taken up the gay agenda.
That normalization is the goal of groups like the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). What people see in the media has a huge impact and GLAAD ensures images of LGBT people and allies grow acceptance, understanding and build support for equality, they state. Journalists have been happy to help, pushing issues like same-sex marriage, and gay adoption and parenting, hate crimes legislation, and gay-focused anti-bullying initiatives. Those issues also figure in their coverage of politics, religion and education.
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