Are we making too much of Lambert's performance

Maybe I have seen too many rock shows to be offended anymore.  Maybe I have seen too many music videos and gotten with the times, used to the sexualization of bimbos rolling around on the hoods of cars and being doused with garden hoses as they grind in rhythm to a song that has nothing to do with said subjects.  While we are used to video vixens and the stage antics of the most notorious to walk the stage on MTV award shows, somehow in 2009 the world came to screeching halt during Adam Lambert's American Music Award performance of his new single "For Your Entertainment." 

I was rather entertained to see the least.  Where live vocals were a little pitchy at moments no one seemed to recall that when all show reviews include descriptions of "lewd dance moves, walking a man on a leash, simulated oral sex", and the icing on the cake according to the conservatives "the male-on-male kiss with a keyboardist." 

Good Morning America was quick to sound the alarm keeping the only gay singer off the program "with concern for a similar performance aired in the morning."

While many were a tweet'n in the morning with tags like #ShameOnYouABC, it is a little hard to dance around the fact compared to the other infamous "Kiss" involving Britney, Madonna, and Christina, some of the uh, "dances" we have seen over the years on televised events, and the female artists that have sexually exploited male dancers and themselves on stage; it is rather suspicious that a gay male singer is the heart of controversy for doing the same with a male band mate.  In fact I hope all main stream artists go make out with a same sexed band mate now.  People don't seem to get that musical performances are like watching micro plays and filled with theatrics.  You don't think Britney goes home and continues the "Circus" do you? 

After a few hours of the shell shock wore off, the voices of reason online seem to be siding with Lambert.  Have we gone back that far in evolution of television that we need to start filming from the waist up in the case someone be takin' a cue from Elvis and starting the gyrations?  What do we have left to be offended by?  If you look at the percentage of those that complained about the "incident" it was under ten percent of the total viewing audience. 

In fact Good Morning America was flooded with complaints for taking Lambert off the  schedule, with many complaining the move was homophobic. 

We need to go for all or nothing.  Either everyone can't behave "lewdly" or everyone gets the green light. 

Either way the singer gets the last laugh with all the free publicity. Lambert's For Your Entertainment was released Monday.