Posted on 08/11/2011 11:26:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
An online petition that has amassed more than 4,000 signatures is calling on producers of venerable children's show "Sesame Street" to have Bert and Ernie tie the knot.
The change.org petition, started by Lair Scott on August 4, insists that "Sesame Street" can help teach children about "the tolerance of those that are different."
"We are not asking that Sesame Street do anything crude or disrespectful. Only that they allow Bert & Ernie to marry or even add a transgender character to the show," the petition reads.
Producers of the show say Bert and Ernie, two male characters who have shared an apartment and bedroom for decades, will not be getting married to each other or anyone else.
"Even though they are identified as male characters and possess many human traits and characteristics ... they remain puppets, and do not have a sexual orientation," Sesame Workshop said Thursday in a statement to The Christian Post.
"Bert and Ernie are best friends. They were created to teach preschoolers that people can be good friends with those who are very different from themselves."
As of Friday morning, at least 4,391 people had signed on to support the push for the non-profit PBS program to introduce the issue of homosexuality to children.
A Facebook page linked to the petition, entitled "Let Bert & Ernie Get Married On Sesame Street," had also attracted more than 2,000 supporters.
Comments were mixed on both change.org and Facebook, with some responders applauding the petition's push for "equal rights" and others wondering about the wisdom of introducing sexuality on a children's program.
A user on change.org identified as Heather Davis expressed support for gay rights, but added, "I dont feel like its right to let little kids watch it... If you get older and decide you are LGBT then that is your choice but to instill it in children is wrong..."
An oppositional petition had also been launched on change.org and had only gained about 50 signatures by Thursday morning.
According to the program's website, "Sesame Street" is "the place where multiethnic, multigenerational, and even multispecies residents coexist in harmony."
The show, on the air since 1969, starts its 42nd season September 26, 2011.
"Bert, Ernie, how would you two respond to the petition being circulated by Change.org requesting the two of you be allowed to marry by your show's producers?"
Bert: "First of all, I ain't no GD faggot and......"
Interviewer: "OK, OK......Ernie, how about you?"
Ernie: "If those GD faggots enjoy unnatural objects inserted into their rectums, I've got an old Louisville Slugger in the apartment that I'd be more than willing to shove up their...."
Interviewer: "Cool down Ernie, I..."
Ernie: "...with 50 pounds of pressure!"
Sunffleupagus has already been spotted in Greenwich Village hotspots.
The only time Jesus alludes to just capital punishment is in the case of people who pervert children. Specifically, that for such a one it were better to fasten a millstone around their neck and that they be thrown into the sea.
The leftists know the battles the can’t fight in the open, they can win by indoctrinating children in secret, then waiting a couple generations.
Maybe they can out Mr. Rogers while they are at it.
Hey, don’t speak ill of the dead ! :)
I suppose Chip & Dale and Heckle & Jeckle should be married too. /s
You are reacting to a Facebook group and not an actual Sesame Street script. The movement has no purpose except to stir up emotion among a certain segment of the population.
And apparently, they have been successful.
I comment on a global leftist agenda without mention of Sesame Street, and if you are dismissive of that, I must maintain my position that there *is* an elephant in the room.
Byeieeeee...
delenda est...
It’s not an agenda, it is 4000 of the 750,0000,0000 people on Facebook who did this for a laugh.
I just find it strange that the large majority of the children on their little vignettes are some sort of disabled and mostly Down’s.
It’s not reality, and it grows tedious.
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