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The New American

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Showtime cable network has announced the addition of the cartoon series "Queer Duck," which will be shown immediately after its breakout homosexuality-themed series "Queer as Folk." The new animated series portrays the picaresque adventures of its title character and his "companion" Openly Gator, as well as his friends Bi-Polar Bear and Oscar Wildcat. Scott Seomin, entertainment media director of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), applauds "Queer Duck" as "funny and sometimes very clever."

Seomin praises even more effusively the first half of Showtime's homosexual double-feature, "Queer as Folk' which unabashedly celebrates drug use, promiscuous sex, and even statutory homosexual rape. The "breakout" character of the show's first season was a promiscuous 29-year-old named Brian, who lured a timid 17-year-old named Justin into a homosexual relationship. Justin, who had just come out as a homosexual, could be seen as an example of what homosexual activists call "questioning" youth.

Here is an interesting double-standard: If a television show depicted, in graphic fashion, sexual activity between a ...

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