Sorry I missed “The Simpsons” episode, although I assumed it would hardly be a slam-dunk for the GLAAD activists. It sounds to me from reading press accounts that it would please GLAAD more than I thought, what with Marge greeting her lesbian sister with the lame line that just cause you’re lesbian “doesn’t make you less of a human bein’.” Hollywood just always starts from the gay-left assumption that disapproval of sin equals thinking sinners are sub-human. That claim in itself matches “The Simpsons” — it’s a snarky cartoon of Christianity.

It’s true that parents should know “The Simpsons” ain’t “Baby Looney Tunes,” but it’s also true that kids are much more likely to stop on cartoons of any sort. In case people didn’t click on your link, my boss Brent Bozell also said “At a time when the public mood is overwhelmingly against gay marriage, any show that promotes gay marriage is deliberately bucking the public mood.” Why did the Simpsons pick this fight? Ratings. This is just another classic ratings stunt: get the social conservatives mad, get the rest of the country to watch to see what the fuss is about. For a fuller view of Brent’s take, see his column about the sweeps-month trend here.