Welcome to the Neighborhood's gay Wrights battle
Remember the whole Welcome To The Neighborhood reality television show debacle? Yeah, I went off about it in a pretty significant way at the time, only to learn all these months later that Stephen and John Wright and their adopted son Eli were the winners on the cancelled series. If I'd have known that I'd have, well, nevermind. Any show where a straight, white, religious family gets to decide the fate of heavily stereotyped minorities is just a little too real world if you ask me. It does, however, turn out that ABC may have had a motive in their cancellation - allowing the Walt Disney Company to pre-empt a show that could have interfered with a much bigger enterprise: the courting of evangelical Christian audiences for "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe." Was the show cancelled because the gays actually won? (Thanks Tyler)
Comments
Wasn't the program cancelled because the department of Housing and Urban Development was threatening legal action? I seem to remember something about HUD taking issue with the program and the producers for not following federal standards of equal opportunity housing.
But I could be wrong.
Posted by Dave? on January 26, 2006 1:44 AM
Read the New York Times link. It addresses that.
Posted by Heather? on January 26, 2006 2:25 AM
Hey these are my uncles and my baby cousin eli! i just happend to stumble upon this page about them!no thats not why the show was cancancled but the house was not the problem thats all i know! steve and john are the best people EVER and its a dirty shame the show got cancled but hey they still won so hell yea!
Posted by Sydney? on March 20, 2006 8:59 AM
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