The crew at Fox & Friends can't handle the fact that government documents are beginning to acknowledge same-sex couples, blaming the “P.C. Police” for new, gay-inclusive language on federal student aid forms.
In April, the U.S. Department of Education announced that it would be making minor changes to the language used on its Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) in order to recognize families headed by same-sex couples, including replacing the terms “Mother/Stepmother” and “Father/Stepfather” with the terms “Parent 1 (father/mother/stepparent)” and “Parent 2 (father/mother/stepparent).”
During the May 10 edition of Fox & Friends, co-host Steve Doocy criticized the change, warning that “the P.C. police are loose in the federal government”:
As the Fox & Friends crew struggled to think of reasons to criticize the language change - like co-host Gretchen Carlson's concern that parents will “start fighting over which one is 1 and which one is 2” -- Fox's chyron displayed several headlines suggesting that the new language somehow punished heterosexual parents:
Later in the show, the Fox & Friends crew returned to the subject, again displaying a “P.C. police” graphic and airing viewer complaints about the language change, including one comment that a couple is “now having a domestic dispute” because they can't agree on which parent should be deemed "#1":
In reality, the minor change in FAFSA language is a "fair, effective, and efficient" way to reduce bias that discriminates against students raised in same-sex households who seek financial aid to fund their college education. Fox's outrage over such a common sense change is just the latest example of the network's inability (or unwillingness) to accept and recognize same-sex relationships.