By Jim Brown
November 29, 2006

(AgapePress) - A pro-family leader is wondering who's minding the net for the National Hockey League, given its support for a homosexual movie that features an 11-year-old drag queen.

The Toronto Maple Leafs and the NHL have given permission for their logos to be used in a forthcoming Canadian film called Breakfast With Scot, which portrays a former Leafs team member who wants to publicly announce his homosexuality. In the movie, the ex-hockey player lives with a same-sex partner, who is the Toronto team's lawyer, and their adopted son, who is described as "a budding queen of an 11-year-old boy."

Breakfast With Scot, the movie, is an adaptation of the eponymous 1999 novel by Michael Downing, who has also adapted the book for the stage. Now, as the story of two homosexual parents and their adopted drag-queen son comes to the screen, one conservative media watchdog is raising concerns about the National Hockey League's apparent support for the project.

Bob Knight, director of the Culture and Media Institute at the Virginia-based Media Research Center, believes NHL officials are unlikely to win any more fans for the League by endorsing this homosexual-themed movie. "They're going to alienate many, many people who take their kids to hockey games," he says. "The NHL has had enough problems in recent years packing their arenas, and this is not going to help them at all."

Bob Knight

In allowing its logos and name to be used in Breakfast With Scot, League decision-makers have chosen to "side with a very radical movement," Knight contends. And they have done so "in a manner that shows they fear the power of the media elite and their homosexual allies more than they do their own fans," he adds.

The Culture and Media Institute spokesman says he is surprised representatives of a sport widely associated with masculine character, toughness and integrity would let their organization's image be used to promote homosexuality or a "weird sexual aberration" like the transgender movement.

"You've got the NHL, which is the epitome of masculinity, being used to try to validate first the homosexual relationship and then extending it to transgenderism," Knight asserts. However, the culture and media analyst suggests, this is typical of the tactics used in liberal activism.

"What the left tries to do is use symbols that we respect and admire and transfer their moral capital to something that's weird and destructive like homosexual behavior," Knight observes. "This movie seems to have all of that," he says.

James Hartline, a former homosexual turned Christian activist, suggests that the National Hockey League's decision to, in effect, endorse the movie Breakfast with Scot is not a single departure from form but an indication of the League's current direction. He says the NHL "is now becoming a willing partner with the fringe elements of the radicalized homosexual agenda."