Two and a Half Men’s new episode tonight featured the parents of the protagonist Charlie’s fiancee. The father, who is initially depicted as a conservative “bigot”, comes out of the closet to reveal that he has always been in love with a man.
While the episode itself was better than most stuff that Chuck Lorre has been putting out recently, I had predicted that the story line would feature a closet situation once the character’s wife pointed out he was always on guard against the “homosexual agenda.” As with most other TV shows, movies, and books these days, the liberal media establishment is forcing the “homosexual agenda” down our throats.
Incidentally, I recently finished reading Ursula Le Guin’s The Telling and it is the same deal in the book as well. Aliens are depicted to have lower moral standards than humans, involving homosexuality that is widely accepted. In fact, Le Guin’s aliens are bisexuals who have no conception of marriage or fidelity or morality. Characters switch sex-partners freely, choosing from either gender, with little or no emotion involved in the relationship, if you could even call it that. Previously, in The Left Hand of Darkness, Le Guin depicts a world in which the aliens can choose their gender once every month.
While I believe in equality and all that good stuff, we don’t have to be constantly reminded that homosexuality is normal and gay marriage is inevitable. Gay marriage will not become right just because the media forces us to get used to the idea.
