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U.S. Christians Issue Gay Warning Over Kid Video

 

By Jill Serjeant

 

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Christian Conservative groups have issued a gay alert warning over a children's video starring SpongeBob SquarePants, Barney and a host of other cartoon favorites.

 

The wacky square yellow SpongeBob is one of the stars of a music video due to be sent to 61,000 U.S. schools in March. The makers -- the nonprofit We Are Family Foundation -- say the video is designed to encourage tolerance and diversity.

 

But at least two Christian activist groups say the innocent cartoon characters are being exploited to promote the acceptance of homosexuality.

 

"A short step beneath the surface reveals that one of the differences being celebrated is homosexuality," wrote Ed Vitagliano in an article for the American Family Association.

 

The video is a remake of the 1979 hit song "We Are Family" using the voices and images of SpongeBob, Barney, Winnie the Pooh, Bob the Builder, the Rugrats and 100 TV cartoon stars. It was made by a foundation set up by songwriter Nile Rodgers after the Sept. 11, 2001, hijacked plane attacks to promote the nation's healing process.

 

Christian groups however have taken exception to the tolerance pledge on the foundation's Web site which asks people to respect the sexual identity of others along with their abilities, beliefs, culture and race.

 

"Their inclusion of the reference to 'sexual identity" within their 'tolerance pledge' is not only unnecessary but it crosses a moral line," Dr James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, said in a statement on Thursday.

 

Rodgers was astounded at the attack. "That is so myopic and harsh. You have really got to look hard to find anything in this that is offensive to anyone. The last thing I am going to do is taint these characters," he told Reuters.

 

Dobson was quoted by the New York Times on Thursday as having singled out the wildly popular SpongeBob during remarks about the video at a Washington D.C. dinner this week.

 

SpongeBob, who lives in a pineapple under the sea, was "outed" by the U.S. media in 2002 after reports that the TV show and its merchandise was popular with gays. His creator, Stephen Hillenburg, said at the time that although SpongeBob was an oddball, he thought of all the characters as asexual.

 

It is not the first time that children's TV favorites have come under the critical spotlight of the U.S. Christian right. Tinky Winky, the purse-toting purple Teletubbie, was in 1999 declared a homosexual role model by Rev. Jerry Falwell.

 

 

 

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Originally posted by willy.wonka@Jan 21 2005, 12:19 PM

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Best. Post. Ever.

 

 

I think the reason why all these right-wing Christian Right motherfuckers think that every children's character is a homosexual is because deep down inside they are jealous of the attention these characters get from little boys.

 

My point is that that Dobson and Co. are closet homosexual pedophiles.

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I forgot what their stupid name is, but has anyone else heard about this family in Topeka Kansas that protests at the funerals of people who died of AIDS? Michael Moore did a piece on them a while back. They have these big signs that say "god hates fags". They sometimes stand on the side of the road with these which makes me just want to drive by and throw acid on them.

Has anyone else heard of these people?

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