Billy Crystal tells the Television Critics Association that Hollywood shoving gay sex in our face is ‘too much for me’

I’m very Libertarian when it comes to Gay issues. Live and let live as long as you don’t force your lifestyle on me or down my throat. Television crossed that line long ago. It seems wherever you look, the shows are either pandering to Gays or to race and I find it detestable. I can relate to Crystal’s feelings here. I don’t particularly want to know what anyone does in their bedroom. Period. Crystal is pointing out the obvious – all of us are forced into accepting certain lifestyles and morality choices whether we like it or not in most of the shows we watch. We can either quit watching them, or ignore the propaganda. It’s a pity our children for the most part don’t have that choice or the wisdom to know what is dogma pushed by the State and what is simply entertainment. Indoctrination en masse is now TV du jour.

One of television’s pioneers in bringing gay sex to America’s small screens is getting a little sick of the consequences.

Billy Crystal, who played an openly gay character on ABC’s “Soap,” a parody of daytime soap operas that ran from 1977 to 1981 , told a panel of the Television Critics Association in Pasadena on Sunday that the push to get gays on television is going too far, according to the Huffington Post.

“Sometimes I think, ‘Ah that’s too much for me,’” Crystal said. “Sometimes, it’s just pushing it a little too far for my taste and I’m not going to reveal to you which ones they are.”

There’s certainly no shortage of candidates. Mainstreaming gay characters has been a staple of television for years now, whether it’s the comedy “Modern Family” (and you know what makes it “modern”) or the drama “Orange is the New Black” and a bunch of shows in between.

The problem, Crystal said, is that the pendulum has swung too far – from the era when his character was automatically a laugh-line because of his sexual orientation to now, when audiences might feel like they’re having an alternative lifestyle pushed into their lives, whether they want it or not.

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