Anyone reading this blog likely realizes that Fox ‘News’ is hardly a news channel but, instead, is nothing more than a propaganda machine for the ultra conservative religious right and the GOP – also known by sane people as God’s Own Party. However, thanks to the rumor that Megyn Kelly will replace Sean Hannity in the primetime TV spot at 9 PM weeknights, the pro-‘family values’ group, America’s Survival, Inc (ASI), believes the network is now pushing a ‘pro-homosexual’ agenda. In a press release to Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the group details what it calls “radical changes at Fox News that should cause great concern to pro-family conservatives.”

The press release, which is 92 pages long, was written by none other than infamously extreme homophobe Peter LaBarbera of the certified hate group Americans for Truth about Homosexuality. The document, entitled Unfair, Unbalanced, and Afraid: Fox News’ Growing Pro- Homosexual Bias and the National Gay and Lesbian Journalists’ Association is, as one would expect, a massive tome of homophobia and all-around quackery. They use a quote from an interview that Megyn Kelly did with an evangelical pastor as ‘evidence’ of the network’s turning against their agenda. Here’s their ‘evidence’:

“This country has a long history of discrimination against certain groups. Eventually we wind up getting it right. Right? Against women, against blacks, the civil rights movement and so on. And in justifying that discrimination when it was in place, some folks turn to the Bible and turn to their religious beliefs and said we have to have slavery because it’s in the Bible. “Women have to be second-class citizens because that’s in the Bible. Blacks and whites can’t get married because that’s in the Bible. That wound up in a case. A judge wrote that in an opinion, which the Supreme Court ultimately struck that down, saying, ‘That’s not right, judge — the Equal Protection clause says you can’t do that.’ Why is gay marriage any different?”

Sentiments such as these are cited by LaBarbera as evidence that Republicans and other conservatives are becoming complacent when it comes to this particular social issue. He says that this sort of thing coming from Megyn Kelly and others:

“…contributed to the further degradation of journalism that has contributed to Republican and conservative ambivalence on issues like same-sex ‘marriage’ and allowing open homosexuals in the military. So bad is the media groupthink on homosexuality that even self-described ‘conservatives’ like Glenn Beck and Tucker Carlson have either endorsed or made positive soundings on ‘gay marriage,’ or gone silent on LGBT issues.”

Anyone with half a brain knows that no one at Fox is pro-LGBT. They are, in fact, mostly open, raging bigots when it comes to LGBT rights. This whole thing is just silly, paranoid ranting by people who are obviously losing the culture war and need to get over it… or risk being left in the dust on the wrong side of history. In fact, as a business, Fox likely realizes this and, regardless of personal or actual feelings, they likely are toning down the rhetoric, if only to save their own asses.

To loosely quote Megyn Kelly, we got it right on a legal level with the civil rights movement, with women’s liberation, and with slavery. We’ll eventually get it right with this, too.

Read more here at The Raw Story.