BY Lux Alptraum
August 13, 2007
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Last week, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) released their first ever Network Responsibility Index, a report mapping “the quantity, quality and diversity of images of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people on network television.”

Focusing largely on the five major networks (ABC, CBS, the CW, Fox, and NBC), the reports rates ABC the highest, with 15% of its programming inclusive of LGBT people. Fox comes in the lowest, with a mere 6%. Not surprisingly, the highest ratings were granted to cable networks.

Since its release, the study has garnered a great deal of press (much of it positive or neutral). Our favorite coverage has to be this article out of The Christian Post, which deems the report to be — you guessed it — a sign of increasing “normalization of homosexuality and… transgenderism through the media.” Heaven forbid!

Our favorite quote comes from Dr. Robert A.J. Gagnon, associate professor of New Testament at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary:

Furthermore, Gagnon sees the transgender issue emerging on the same path that homosexuality has through the media.

“Initially, for example, even [Congressman] Barney Frank said with regard to hate crime legislation and employment non-discrimination legislation, the transgender community would have to forget about that including them because America was never going to accept that. They were just going to work on getting approval for gays and lesbians,” the professor said in an interview with The Christian Post in June. “But now that’s changed because the culture has changed and now they’re going to try to get in the transgender too.

“It’s always been pushing for the homosexual agenda with the attempt to eventually – once they get that accepted – move into the acceptance of bisexuality and transgenderism,” he added.

Oh no! Not the bisexuals and the transgendereds! Whatever shall we do?

Oh right: not care, because other people’s lifestyles don’t affect us. Unless, you know, we’re fucking them or something.

[NB: Way to reuse a quote from an old interview, CP. That's classy. And good journalism, too!]