SIMPSONS' GAY MARRIAGE EPISODE

I was definitely excited to see the Simpsons Sunday night. I usually look forward to it, but this was the episode in which a character was supposed to come out of the closet and get married! The episode began with a title card: "This Episode Contains Discussions of Same Sex Marriage. Parental Discrection is Advised." I was goddamned flabbergasted. DISCUSSIONS OF SAME SEX MARRIAGE is now cause for advisories...not a "frank discussion of anal sex"...not "graphic depictions of girl/girl action." I was waiting for the joke. There was none. At what point in our future will this seem downright medieval? I also want to point out that in the same episode, Homer gets stabbed in the hand with a butcher knife and gets a lit cigarette in his eye. This was not deemed warning-worthy. Not that I think it should have been, I'm just pointing out the fact that somebody felt that the fairly intelligent discussions of a cartoon were more harmful to the population at large than the image of a burning eyeball. I'm embarassed to live in a world in which homosexual love is considered "part of an ideology of evil" by the Pope. When I was growing up, interracial relationships on TV were cause for raised eyebrows. It's now pretty much treated as not a big deal. I truly hope this important civil rights issue can be looked upon the same way in ten years.