I made this a comment on Sylvia's LiveJournal, but got so worked up about it that I thought I'd share with y'all. Lucky you!

Why do these stupid things still piss me off so much a month after they happen?! Did you hear about this?

In January, ABC cancelled a reality show called "Welcome to my Neighborhood" on which different families competed with each other to win a house in a very selective suburban neighborhood. The (obviously diverse) contestants included a gay couple and their adopted kid. All of the competing families had to court the council of other families in the neighborhood with dinner parties and the like, and all of the good Christian families on the council started off the show absolutely appalled that a gay family would even think of invading their neighborhood...

...but by the end of the season, all of the families had totally embraced the gay family. One of the neighbors was even inspired to make amends with his own estranged gay son. Get that? In a conservative neighborhood, THE GAY FAMILY WON and was awarded the house.

So why did ABC pull the show ten days before the first episode even aired, the New York Times reported? Because they didn't want opposition from groups like Focus on the Family and the American Family Association, (which had endorsed boycotts of the Disney Corp. for anti-gay reasons in the past) to interfere with their efforts to promote Chronicles of Narnia among those same groups. Allegedly. Probably.

*inaudible mumbling and swearing*