We’ve documented how CNSNews.com has a habit of devoting multiple articles to pushing the exact same talking point. It’s done that again — but to push its anti-LGBT agenda.
An anonymously written May 12 article stated:
In a new, animated recruitment ad, the U.S. Army presents the story of “Emma,” a real soldier (Emma Malonelord), who was raised by lesbians, enjoyed a “fairly typical childhood,” saw her two moms get married, and decided to join the Army to experience her “own adventures, my own challenge.”
It is a recruitment ad with a pro-homosexual theme. It presents lesbian behavior, “gay marriage,” and gay parenting as normal and patriotic.
The anonymous author — a search of CNS’ archive suggests it may have been written by the gay-hating managing editor Michael W. Chapman — offered no evidence that those things are not “normal and patriotic.”
CNS was apparently so outraged by this ad (and eventually had received a crop of summer interns) that it published another anonymously written attack on this exact same ad on June 10:
The U.S. Army has produced an animated recruiting ad that depicts a same-sex marriage between two women and tells the story of how the daughter of this pair joined the Army.
The ad is part of a series of ads the Army is calling “The Calling.” On the GoArmy.com website, the Army says of these ads: “See how five young Americans made the most important decision of their lives, for reasons as diverse as they are.”
The ad featuring the animated same-sex wedding is about and narrated by Cpl. Emma Malonelord, who works as an “air defense enhanced early warning system operator.”
On its webpage about the ad, the Army says: “Raised by two supportive mothers, Emma felt lucky to have such powerful role models in her life. Inspired by their courage and conviction, she was determined to face challenges of her own and shatter stereotypes along the way.”
The latter article is less obviously judgmental, but it also doesn’t explain why it obviously finds the ad offensive — or why it exists at all, given that CNS had covered this exact same territory a month earlier. Did somebody forget about that earlier article? The CNS archive suggests that it may have been written by editor Terry Jeffrey, who’s less overtly anti-LGBT than Chapman. The headline, however, complains that the ad “promotes lesbianism and same-sex marraige,” so the anti-LGBT message still came through.
Still, it appears that someone at CNS felt so strongly that this ad must be denounced that two articles were devoted to bashing it. That’s not “news” — that’s ideology-driven activism.