So, Adam Lambert had a goal: he wanted to push the envelope. "I do feel like there's a bit of a double standard in the entertainment community, on television, on radio," he said. "I feel like women performers have been pushing the envelope, especially, for the past 20 years. And all of the sudden a male does it and everybody goes 'Oh, we can't show that on TV.' For me, that's a form of discrimination and a double standard."

Well, I know I speak for a lot of good Christians when I say, we don't want our envelopes pushed! So today Mr. Lambert learned there's consequences to every action. Today ABC told him he's been kicked off Good Morning America because 1,500 Christians angrily emailed them, like our good Christian websites told us too. I'm sure the gay community is going to jump up in arms, but after hearing about his performance on Sunday night, I think ABC is justified.
Today ABC announced that it had canceled a performance by Mr. Lambert scheduled for Wednesday on Good Morning America. An ABC spokeswoman explained that “Given his controversial American Music Awards performance, we were concerned about airing a similar concert so early in the morning.”See? Perfectly understandable. They're simply concerned that, if a gay man gets that crazy on a music awards program at 10:58 at night, he might go totally off the rails on a program aimed at middle-aged, mid-American housewives at 7:30 in the morning. How do we know he won't once again give in to his gay impulses? Because God knows when my twins Kristi and Karli are checking out the weather reports before heading off to Baptist school, they don't need to see some guylinered dude fellatiating his guitarist's crotch.

Now, I'm sure all the gay activists are going to leap up and scream about a double standard, but this is just ridiculous. ABC has blacklisted dozens of heterosexual performers after questionable acts. Remember a young man named Justin Timberlake, who tore the top off a young woman during the Super Bowl? No, I don't either -- because ABC banished him from their airwaves. And how about that young woman, with the sparkly sunburst nipple? Her name is forever lost to history because of what they done.

And remember a singer named Madonna? She had a potty mouth and filthy attitude, but ABC wouldn't have none of that. They banished her, smartly, out of concern that during an interview with, like, Matt Lauer, she might mount him and start simulating sexual acts while wearing a conical bra. ABC's trash heap is littered with the names of has-been heterosexual performers who posed similar dangers to their viewers, from the totally-forgotten Christina Aguilera to something called "Lady Gaga."

So, gay activists, don't go screaming double standard.

Well, or if you do, here's the place to do it. (ABC is owned by Disney, and here you can CC a whole bunch of folks.) And here is another place. You might want to mention that you're not going to watch Good Morning America until Adam appears.

The Disney company is relatively gay-friendly. They have to be, considering they're in the entertainment field. If Disney only hired straight people, their parade floats would be made of stucco and astroturf. Fantasia would look like an animated Riverdance.

When they bought ABC, though, Disney ran into a problem. They now owned Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, a show that sends folks on vacation and builds them mansions while they're gone. Every week the show gives away half a million dollars in cash and prizes to select families.

That just happen to be heterosexual.

I watched the show off and on for a couple years, patiently waiting for a male or female couple to appear. Finally I wrote in and asked where all the gay families were. A spokesperson at ABC replied with a ridiculous email claiming they'd be happy to have a gay family on the program: they just hadn't found a good one yet. They said if I knew a deserving one I should encourage them to apply.

I immediately recognized this as bullshit. The program was startlingly efficient at finding needles in the Pitiful Haystack. They found a biker preacher with a disabled grandson, a single mother/Christian minister whose house burned down, an African-American ballet dancer with multiple sclerosis. They found Benjamin Burns, whose bone disease affects one out of every 10,000 people. They found Will Johnson, whose spinal muscular atrophy affects one out of every 20,000 people. They found Jhryve Sears, whose Krabbe disease afflicts one out of every 100,000.

They found a pair of home-schooling horse whisperers and a one-armed lobster fisherman. They found ten-year-old Kayla Woodhouse, one of the twenty-five people in the WORLD who suffer from Hereditary Sensory Autonomic Neuropathy.

But they couldn't find a deserving gay family.

A few months later, the other shoe dropped. The Smoking Gun obtained an e.mail message sent by EM:HE "family casting director" Charisse Simonian that details her unspoken requirements. In fact, Charisse had a wish list that made it crystal clear exactly who she was looking for:

-- Extraordinary Mom / Dad Recently diagnosed with ALS --
-- Family who has child w/ PROGERIA (aka "little man disease")
-- Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis," referred to as CIPA by the few people who know about it. (There are 17 known cases in the US -- let me know if one is in your town!) This is where kids cannot feel any physical pain.
-- Muscular Dystrophy Child -- Amazing kid who is changing people's views about MD

Clearly Charisse wasn't just sitting around waiting for pitiful people to write in. No, she was actively searching for them. She was canvassing neighborhoods, contacting churches and Chambers of Commerce for them. In her list, though, the word "gay" doesn't appear.

And after seven years and 118 episodes, there still hasn't been a gay family on the show.

I emailed ABC again a couple months ago. Now all they'll say is they get too much email to respond to everyone. As of two weeks ago, Disney/ABC is airing another "family" program. Opportunity Knocks awards families a quarter of a million bucks if they correctly answer trivia questions about each other.

In the first episode, a heterosexual family played. In the second episode, a heterosexual family played.

It doesn't take Einstein to see the pattern here.

The time has come for Disney to step up to the plate and give a gay family a shot. A gay couple should have a chance for their spectacular new house to be foreclosed. A gay mom should get to win a McMansion and then throw all her kids out. A gay dad should get to allegedly strip his fabulous new house bare and sell everything to buy drugs.

Until ABC and Disney decide we get equal rights, we are tuning out.

Click here to ask ABC and Disney when we'll see a gay family on either of these shows.