Walk in the Glow of Each Other's Majestic Presence

I think one of the reasons you don't see this (and I've said this before in other places, so pardon me for being a broken record) is because as soon as you add a gay couple or an abortion or, hell, even something so uncontroversial as a stay-at-home househusband, you're making a statement with your movie/play/novel, whether you want to or not. People notice, and suddenly your plot or theme or thing-that-is-particularly-important-to-you has to fight for attention with the fact that someone's gay or having an abortion or taking care of the kids while his wife goes to work. And then people walk away from your movie and say "And what was with that abortion scene? It just seemed weird and tacked on and unnecessary." I think it's really hard to make that *part* of the movie without making the movie *about* that.