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...debuts 9 p.m. E.T., Jan. 6) does not exactly lay out the welcome mat. Its content--did I forget to mention his sister-in-law's lesbian affair? his wife's martini habit? the adulterous bishops?--has already drawn the ire of the American Family Association (AFA), a conservative cultural watchdog group, which charged that the show "mocks Christianity." (Or that at least the promos do; the group had not yet seen, or requested, a screener from NBC.) NBC entertainment president Kevin Reilly says it's a funny but ultimately sincere family drama, though he notes that he expects "there...
...church's overseas counterparts. (The church has had no comment on Daniel so far.) So it's plausible that he would accept his gay son and even ask an engaged couple he's counseling if "everything's O.K. in the bedroom." "But why select the Episcopal Church?" asks AFA spokesman Ed Vitagliano. "Why not choose a conservative priest? The fact is that most Christians have rejected the Episcopal position on homosexuality. It is not a Christian position...
...wonder--but they can get married." Kenny was also intrigued by the particular country-club Wasp culture that he was introduced to through his Episcopal life partner of almost 24 years. (Yes, that would be a male partner, and no, that isn't helping Daniel among conservatives either. An AFA protest letter slams the show as being written by a "practicing homosexual...
...Stevenson is also entwined in the country's political history. Arriving only months after the signing of the Berlin Treaty of 1889, which gave control of Samoa jointly to Germany, Britain and the U.S., the famous Scotsman put his weight behind the non-aligned chief Mata'afa. Former Prime Minister Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Efi says Stevenson's sympathies were with "indigenous people - their aspirations, their problems trying to hold their own against outsider influences, whether they were missionaries, colonial or business people." Nearly a quarter of a century after they gained independence, Samoans are relaxed in the author...
...AFA has stepped up its efforts to change that. The group was instrumental in getting a measure requiring airlines to provide more extensive training put into a bill permitting guns in the cockpit, which passed the House last month. A bill that the Senate will consider next month includes similar language, requiring 28 hours of instruction and demanding that flight attendants get communications gear that could be used to alert the pilots from anywhere in the plane (a cabin-crew member now must go to one end of the plane or the other to use an internal phone...