Jennifer Lopez’s new ABC Family drama “The Fosters” doesn’t even have a cast and has yet to finish its pilot — but it’s already drawing the ire of One Million Moms because the show features a lesbian couple raising children.
The show, produced by Lopez and created by Bradley Bredeweg and “Queer as Folk”‘s Peter Paige, is being called “anti-family” by the watchdog group.
The organization posted the following statement on their Web site in an effort to stop the show from broadcast:
“A premiere date has not been set, but One Million Moms wanted to sound the alarm about this new series. It will be airing on the network soon unless we do something about it. They are in the beginning stages.
“ABC Family reported the comedy-drama pilot, working with the title ‘The Fosters,’ is about two women raising a ‘21st century,’ multi-ethnic mix of foster and biological kids. While foster care and adoption is a wonderful thing and the Bible does teach us to help orphans, this program is attempting to redefine marriage and family by having two moms raise these children together. One Million Moms is not sure how the explanation will be given on how the biological children were conceived. None of this material is acceptable content for a family show.
“Hollywood is continuing to push an agenda that homosexuality is acceptable when scripture states clearly it is a sin. As Christians, the Bible also says that we must speak up against sin. If we remain silent then we are guilty of sin also.”
The group urges its supporters to e-mail ABC Family in protest and to encourage advertisers to pull commercials from the network.
One Million Moms made headlines last year when they famously boycotted J.C. Penney for hiring openly gay Ellen DeGeneres as its spokesperson. Its members are incensed with a Skittles commercial in which a teenage girl makes out with a walrus, and with Oreo cookies for posting on their Facebook Page an image of a rainbow version of their famous cookie in support of LGBT month.