Why so many gay couples in tv shows?

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LilyM said:
Well turn off or mute the ads - or use streaming or DVDs which are usually blessedly ad-free. I haven’t even switched on my actual television since the World Cup soccer last year.
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Done.
Actually, I cut off most television and radio broadcasts many years ago.
Specifically over ads run on a morning radio program that I disagreed with.
At this point, only EWTN and specific movies are allowed in my house.
 
It’s not just television shows, but also advertisements like this Absolut ad (a subtle form of propaganda):

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I remember being in seventh grade history class. We watched the movie “Nicholas and Alexandra”. The teacher asked us if we knew what was being implied about Rasputin and his followers. Many of us were dumbfounded and shocked at what the teacher told us about homosexuality. Literally, – it was something many of us knew zero about. That was the early 1980s.
Fat chance of kids being so innocent now. Now they have to have immorality presented to them in glowing terms in kindergarten…
 
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There once was a time in America where showing an interracial couple in a commercial was considered “too political”. Not saying it’s the same but again I ask how much we should expect advertisers to respect minority religious views. If they ban showing gay couples (not even being explicit at all), should they also ban commercials for alcohol on the grounds that Mormons and Muslims consider its consumption immoral? Or pork products that could offend Jews and Muslims? Serious question.
 
@Rozellelily you know, at least your ad has the gay couple front and center where there’s little ambiguity whereas mine has the two guys tucked up in the neck of the bottle where you might not notice them at first (sneaky).
 
edwest said:
No, they are selling wedding rings to two men.
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But, as I said, they’re trying to sell their products.

I wouldn’t expect them to leave money on the table and not sell their products.

If they said, “we don’t agree with gays,” “we think they’re sinners,” or anything like that, gays would just go to their competitors.
 
This is still “gay couple marketing” along with a product – any product.
 
No, those companies would be boycotted and attacked in nasty public smear campaigns waged by the extreme, albeit small but incredibly vocal, faction of the LGBTQ community.

Remember the Chick Fil A controversy? The owner professed to believe marriage was between a man and a woman, and he was made out to be a hateful bigot.

But to get back on topic: Widespread acceptance of the LGBTQ lifestyle and same-sex marriage has been largely influenced by public campaigns in which individuals and companies are told ‘If you not agree, you are a bigot.’ Look at the 180 degree positions on this among politicians in the last 15 years.
 
I think this way overestimates the effect of “you’re a bigot if you disagree” tactics, which I think are counterproductive. I think most people changed their mind because moderate gay people started coming out more and provided a lot of good examples of good peaceful gay citizens. And Americans I think are very open to the argument that “everyone should have the same rights and have freedom”, it’s kind of the American ideal.

Politicians just changed their mind when public approval crossed near or over 50%. Because they are politicians who go where the winds blow.
 
I agree with the second part, politicians will pretty much do and say anything for a vote.
 
Atreju said:
And Americans I think are very open to the argument that “everyone should have the same rights and have freedom”, it’s kind of the American ideal.
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Do you believe there was some right heterosexual people enjoyed that homosexual people were denied?
 
Yeah the right to marry.

You say “but they did have the right to marry… someone of the opposite gender! Haha!”

Sort of like saying black people had the same right as white people to marry someone of the same race back when interracial marriage was illegal.

The majority of the American people have found that argument spurious and dumb weighed against human happiness and freedom.

Also heterosexual married couples could move to any state and have their marriage recognized, but legally married gay couples could not do so, even though the Constitution mandates that legally valid contracts in one state should be recognized by any state.
 
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Yeah the right to marry.

You say “but they did have the right to marry… someone of the opposite gender! Haha!”

Sort of like saying black people had the same right as white people to marry someone of the same race back when interracial marriage was illegal.

The majority of the American people have found that argument spurious and dumb weighed against human happiness and freedom.

Also heterosexual married couples could move to any state and have their marriage recognized, but legally married gay couples could not do so, even though the Constitution mandates that legally valid contracts in one state should be recognized by any state.
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And not just that, but the right to go to their school or workplace and not be harassed.

Yes, it did happen. Even today they still get fired from their jobs in some states.
 
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