After American Family Association spokesman Bryan Fischer called Modern Family a dangerous “poison” that demonizes heterosexuality, Modern Family star Jesse Tyler Ferguson laughed off the criticism from the rabidly anti-gay activist.
Ferguson told Huffington Post Live that it is “hard for [him] to even comment” on Fischer’s “hilariously ridiculous” remarks, adding: “You have to allow it to roll of your back, as my favorite drag queen Jinkx Monsoon says, ‘water off a duck’s back,’ I try not to get too worked up about those things.”
The comments on Fischer start at the 14:40 mark.
Listen to Fischer’s anti-gay diatribe attacking Modern Family.
Miller: One of the most popular shows on television, “Modern Family,” and you have the guy from “Married With Children” who is married to a young, attractive Latina woman with a kid from another marriage. You’ve got the heterosexual couple with the stereotypical family; they’re the most challenged or, dare we say, the most screwed-up. And then we have the same-sex male family where we have a man and man in a loving, committed relationship that just doesn’t have any, any problems. And apparently the promotion on ABC has allowed this show to be very popular and it does impact people and you have good Christians who turn the other cheek, who don’t want to be labeled as intolerant and yet, they don’t want these values on the airwaves.
Fischer: What’s illustrated there is way that the media influences the way that people think about life. The portrait there that’s being presented is designed to make you think that same-sex households are wonderful, they’re loving, this is paradise, this is the optimum nurturing environment for children; to make you think that heterosexual marriage is bondage, it’s dreary, it’s gloomy, and we know that the social research indicates exactly the opposite.
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You know, that’s the danger. It’s just like getting a little bit of poison over a long period of time, eventually getting enough accumulation in there where it can be kind of lethal to the organism. And I think that’s what you’re seeing with a lot of this programming. It has to do with kind of the basic view of morality and marriage and life and family that people have. It’s very corrosive; people are just watching TV to be entertained, not realizing that their view of life is being twisted in a way that’s very harmful to them and harmful to our culture.
