One example is Warehouse 13. My hubby likes it and I started watching it with him a few years ago. Last season they introduced a "gay" character but the only time it came up was when the new best friend was starting to have "feelings" for him and he had to set her "straight" (pun intended). There is NO reason at all to have to have a gay character in this series, other than it's the thing to do now and the Hollywood Gay Mafia has grown more demanding.
I was just thinking recently about where we are as a nation concerning sexuality. A mere fifty years ago TV and movie husbands and wives slept in separate beds! Now, in EVERY movie, soap, TV series, casual sex is the norm. Two people who barely know each other seem to have sex first and THEN try to see if a relationship develops. I can't decide if society changed because of "Hollywood" or if the industry was only reflecting society. I think we are moving towards homosexuality the same way - because the Media is in favor of it and they want the world to match their view. Your thoughts?
I think mass media is so much of popular culture (people don't do things anymore that aren't informed or influenced by it) that people think this IS the way culture/society is, and this is the way everyone else thinks and behaves, so they start behaving that way, then the mass media reflects more of the behavior, then people change their behavior to reflect what mass media is telling them, etc. and things ratchet their way over into depravity.
It's not as if they're going to listen to what their peers at church/synagogue or Kiwanis club or bowling club or sewing circle or Toastmasters think.
On another thread, people were discussing why people leave the church. One argument was that the gospel wasn't being presented with conviction and consistency and a lot of church leaders were more concerned with entertaining their congregation and being "hip." I've seen popular culture infiltrate the church to the extent that its ideas are swallowed whole and cloaked in cherry-picked Scripture verses to make them palatable to the congregation. Never mind that it's a worldly rather than a heavenly idea being presented.
My thoughts are that homosexuality is one of many things, but it’s really a nail to the coffin, if anything else. First America started embarking on overwhelmingly accepting sex as something totally okay outside of marriage, then more after that fell. By now, it’s also included unsustainable debt, everyone playing blame game on each other for every mishap possible, and who knows what else. At this point, the homosexuality acceptance part is just an attempt at trying to put a band aid on a severed limb to stop the bleeding. IMHO, sometimes it makes me feel like Nick Carraway in the Great Gatsby, where everything is upside down and tied in knots.