Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-17276108-20131126163635/@comment-1084762-20140509230443

Homosexuality is still a highly sensitive/taboo subject when it comes to kids and the shows they watch. There's no way in hell CN would ever have the balls to let them pull that off, even if they wanted to. But, when it comes to shows like Family Guy with obnoxiously homosexual chars like Stewie, it's not seen as harshly because it's a show made for adults, therefore, the idiot parents that always raise hell won't get mad since their kid won't be watching it (if the parents actually care, that is). It's not about bigotry or inequality, it's about keeping things simplistic to preserve the sense of it being a show for kids.

Fun-fact: In the show Static Shock, the white best friend (forget his name) was confirmed to be gay by the creator of the series, but this was never introduced directly to avoid controversy.