ABC's "Primetime Live" pushing homosexual agenda?

My coworker, Kevin, tipped me off to a news story at Cybercast News Service suggesting that very thing.

The segment has been variously described as one examining different parenting styles and peer groups of different types of families. ABC News has not yet set an air date for the segment, but the mother in one of the families featured in the segment fears producers attempted to misrepresent the nature of the segment and steer it toward one promoting the homosexual agenda. "We were set up," Susan Farinholt of Stephenson, Va., told Cybercast News Service. According to Farinholt, whose family was among four participating in the story, she was told the focus of the report was going to be on "the pros and cons of being in the same peer group."

The Farinholt family, Roman Catholics, Matthew, Sharon and their seven children, were interviewed (no friends allowed), then invited to spend a weeked with three other families: another Christian family, a homosexual couple, and a self-identified "hippy family", consisting of an unmarried man and woman raising their children outside of marriage. During the weekend, the Farinholts were invited to attend the birthday party of the homosexual couple's two-year-old. They initially declined, but producers persuaded them to go.

While visiting New York, the Farinholts attended a birthday party for the homosexual couple's two-year-old child under the watchful eye of cameras from "Primetime Live." "That's when we realized what was really going on," Farinholt said. Also attending the party were several women friends of the male couple, Farinholt said. At one point while the women were speaking with the Farinholts, Sharon said "a producer came over and started talking about homosexuals being allowed to be married and saying we didn't agree with it." Farinholt said others identified as a female minister, a male minister and a rabbi also attended the birthday party. "We realized real quickly that we'd been set up," Farinholt said. "This was very one-sided. We had not been allowed to include any of our friends or family, extended family or anybody else we do things with, yet they were able to have this party where they could highlight all of their friends and how well everybody got along." The Farinholts then went to producer Kate Harrington saying "this was wrong, that we were told we were just going to come and observe, and you're bringing up this debate at a two-year-old child's birthday party. So we decided to leave," even though it meant doing so in front of the cameras.

This wasn't enough for ABC, apparently, because the production staff pressured the Farinholts to take an interview with anchor Cynthia McFadden. McFadden seemed to be pressuring them to say something inflamatory about the homosexual couple.

"She just kept going back to it," said Farinholt. "'OK, we've got two unrepentant homosexuals here, so you're saying that they're going to hell.' She kept trying to leave it at that."

With Memogate II still in full swing, this doesn't do much for ABC's credibility.