What kind of a society is this where a person can't express attraction without fearing that they're going to be murdered for it? If the person who came out with the secret was a Jewish woman or a black woman or an Asian woman, and he went over to her house the next day and killed her because he was so repulsed and she had embarrassed him that way on national television, nobody would be writing stories on the TV show's responsibility. Everyone would be writing stories about this racist, this anti-Semite.
The New York Times, 1995 Ennis, Dawn (July 19, 2016). "Remembering Jeff Montgomery, LGBTQ rights advocate". LGBTQ Nation. Retrieved on 2016-07-19.