UPDATE: Kirk Cameron's Growing Pains co-stars no longer showing him that smile after anti-gay comments, even though his "gay friends" are cool with it
Suggesting that Kirk Cameron’s next birthday party will be even more sparsely attended—but on the bright side, require an equally modest sandwich budget—the actor’s Growing Pains co-stars have joined the many who have come forth to criticize Cameron for his recent statements regarding homosexuals. The controversy that no one who has never listened to the opinions of the Christian right could have expected began after Cameron’s appearance on Piers Morgan Tonight, when Morgan finally justified untold minutes of pretending to be interested in Cameron’s plan for fixing America by getting him to opine that homosexuality is “unnatural” as well as “detrimental, and ultimately destructive to so many of the foundations of civilization”—specifically, the foundations and other structures that Cameron had recently stared at so meaningfully while filming his new sort-of-documentary, Monumental. And although Cameron’s thesis is backed up by the fact that he certainly didn’t witness any homosexual homo-sex in the Pilgrim historical reenactment villages he’d visited and also the Bible, naturally his comments have drawn the ire of organizations like GLAAD, who called them “even more dated than his 1980s TV character”—which, actually, counts as a fairly witty burn by GLAAD statement standards.