By Robert Davidson, News editor, AFA Journal
October 1996 – America’s corporations are adopting the homosexual rights agenda at an ever quickening pace. Now the first agency with direct ties to the federal government is succumbing to the spell of homosexual activists, and hundreds of millions of dollars in tax money is subsidizing the “civil rights” deception. The Human Rights Campaign, one of the most active homosexual rights groups in place, says both National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) now offer insurance coverage for the homosexual partners of their gay employees – a fact that both broadcasting bodies confirm. What that means for the taxpayer is that he is now subsidizing a lifestyle based on the desire to have sex with someone of one’s own gender.
The money that helps pay for the homosexual insurance comes through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and staggering sums of money are involved. On the federal level alone, CPB has received over $1 billion since 1993 to hand out to PBS, NPR and other public broadcasting concerns, and the meter continues to run. For fiscal year 1997, $315 million will go to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and an additional $250 million is earmarked for fiscal year 1998.
The direct federal handout is just the start of the taxpayers’ ties to NPR and PBS. According to CPB figures for fiscal year 1994, other federal agencies contributed slightly more than $49 million to the $206,250,000 that went to fund the television side of the public broadcasting spectrum, and it doesn’t stop there. State and local governments chipped in another $294,867,000 and the trip to the public till goes even deeper. State and other public colleges added another $114,694,000. All told, public funds used just for public television, not radio, in fiscal year 1994 were $665,083,000 or slightly more than 51% of the total monies spent during that time frame, and some taxpayers were taxed not once, not twice but conceivably up to four times.
The fact that NPR and PBS would be the two federally funded agencies to break through the government blockade on providing insurance to the lovers of homosexual employees should not come as a surprise. PBS has established a track record for promoting homosexuality through its programming. Prime examples include the program Portrait of a Marriage about which New York TV critic Marvin Kitman wrote: “Imagine lesbians kissing on public TV...in bed...with a lot of sucking on toes and other emotional moments. Portrait of a Marriage was so vile that even one public TV station, Prairie Public Television in North Dakota, refused to air the show. Male homosexuals also get their share of air time. The Lost Language of Cranes is a PBS aired program that tells the story of a father and son revealing their homosexuality, complete with the requisite homosexual love scenes and imagery.
The entrance of federally backed agencies into the domestic partnership arena puts the pro-family forces into a different arena as well. With corporate America, those repulsed by the endorsement of the sinful lifestyle can show their displeasure with dollars. In the political arena, contact with Senators and Representatives is the best recourse for the family values supporters who want to see an end to the waste of taxpayer dollars on the PBS and NPR endorsement of homosexuality. 
