In June 2020, CBS News celebrated what they called "a stunning victory … for members of the LGBTQ community" when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Bostock v. Clayton County that employers could not fire someone because of their homosexuality or gender identity.
Most media outlets in the U.S. also tend to present gender equality as an ongoing effort to address disparities affecting women at home, in the workplace, politics, and healthcare. For example, most have spun the 2023 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that overturned Roe v. Wade as an "attack" on women's rights.
Meanwhile, seeing the response to President Donald Trump's answer to the Iranian people's requests for help, Nick Kangadis of the Media Research Center says those same outlets seem to be siding with Iran, the Islamic country that punishes homosexuals with flogging, imprisonment, and the death penalty and legally and socially oppresses women and girls.
He says it is not really about homosexuals, women, or whoever else the Mullahs oppress.
"Most of these people on the … far Left, they hate this country," Kangadis observes. "The easiest way to destroy it from within is to subvert our way of life."
He says they celebrate godlessness, which is why they have no problem with Islam.
"It goes well beyond the media," the watchdog tells AFN. "You have a society that has slowly but surely embraced atheism in the form of socialism and communism."
Part of the problem is ignorance, which is sometimes willful.
"They will bash whatever they do not have the capacity to understand," he says.
But for the most part, he believes they see – and even embrace – the double standard – because of their hatred of Donald Trump.
"Just because it might possibly be pro-Trump or pro-conservative or pro-Christian, they'll poo-poo it, even though there's evidence right in front of their eyes," Kangadis laments.
