Legal Group Files FCC Complaint Over Adam Lambert Performance

A legal group advocating traditional family values has filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission over Adam Lambert’s provocative performance at the televised American Music Awards.

The complaint (PDF) by Liberty Counsel says Lambert’s Nov. 22 performance included simulated sex, “suggestive crotch grabbing” and “homosexual open-mouth kissing,” according to a press release. The group says the performance was obscene and indecent, and the FCC should take action against ABC for broadcasting it.

In an appearance last week on The Early Show on CBS, Liberty counsel founder Mat Staver criticized ABC for airing the segment, according to a law school press release. Staver is the dean of Liberty University School of Law.