"No one - not even you - has suggested that anything particularly intimate was being portrayed in this TV show, so it is apparently simply the fact that two women love each other and live together that you find so shocking that it is not fit to be broadcast. And of course that only makes sense to those who have such a negative view of those of us who are gay or lesbian that believe that we ought to be shunned in various ways.... I am by now myself used to the kind of meanness which was the basis of your decision, but I am sorry that young people all over this country who happen to be gay or lesbian have now learned that the person who has been picked by the President of the United States to help with their education has such a fundamentally negative view of their very existence."
- Rep. Barney Frank, D-MA, in a letter to Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings after she pressured the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) to withhold an episode of a popular children's television show "Postcards From Buster" because it included a visit to a maple sugar farm in Vermont that was run by a lesbian couple with children.
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