Did 'Narnia' kill a reality show?

About six months ago, ABC pulled the reality show ‘Welcome To The Neighborhood’ from its schedule a couple days before its first broadcast, ostensibly because of potentially offensively homophobic comments by some of the contestants and protests from the National Fair Housing Alliance. But an NYT article suggests that the real reason the show got pulled may have been an allegorically Christian lion:

But two producers of the show, speaking publicly about the cancellation for the first time, say the network was confident it had the legal standing to give away a house as a game-show prize.

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