Posted on 01/20/2005 7:25:31 AM PST by E Rocc
SpongeBob in crosshairs
The New York Times
WASHINGTON — On the heels of electoral victories to bar same-sex marriage, some influential conservative Christian groups are turning their attention to a new target: the cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants.
James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, said that SpongeBob's creators have enlisted SpongeBob in a “pro-homosexual video,” in which he appeared with other children's television characters.
The makers of the video, Dobson said, plan to mail it to thousands of elementary schools this spring to promote a “tolerance pledge” that includes tolerance for differences of “sexual identity.”
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Your saying that we're"exactly the same" suggests to me that you have a visceral reaction for some personal reason, and have never thought it through. Actually, me and my types founded the nation in which you enjoy your freedom. (You'll love hearing that.) The entire premise for the framework of liberty is the fabric of Biblical morality. That's John Adams I'm channeling there.
Tear at that framework, and you destroy at the foundation of that liberty, to mix metaphors.
Dobson stands for the framework, and he's done terrific work. Your part seems to be to offer obscenities and juvenile taunts.
I'll take Dobson.
Dan
SBSP Ping. . .
Fair enough. I'd leave it up to the individual districts, though. If there are plans to show it in your district, then it's up to you to be involved to change things. If it is shown in another district, I'm not all that sure it's any business of yours or mine.
In that there are school districts where such material would be desired by the majority of teachers and parents, it doesn't bother me that such material is being made.
And all Dobson is doing is warning people so they can get involved to change things at their district, if they want to.
Libertarians are liberals. I don't know why they have become linked to conservatism. Far from it.
Actually just about all Western types founded America. John Adams was pretty straight-laced. Washington seems to have been rather reserved.
OTOH, Ben Franklin and his wife appear to have had what would be called an open marriage these days. James Madison delighted in writing and reciting ribald verse. Gouverneur Morris (author of the preamble to the Constitution) wenched across two continents.
Yes. You homosexual agenda people have to get a life. Despite your gravest fears, the US will never become the United States of American Homos and Dykes.
We have got to keep these gay groups away from our children. They should not even be thinking about sex at elementry school ages, never mind be convinced and encouraged to have same sex relationships. This is WRONG!
When they grow up and mature, and become adolecents, they can determine for themselves what "Normal" sexuality is, as kids have been doing for decades and centuries past.
overwhelmingly, they reject homosexual behavior, simply because it is abnormal!
What these gay activists are doing amounts to brainwashing.
They also want the age of consent lowered to 12, so they can have brainwashed curious victims ready and willing at age 12 so they can satify their pedophilic urges.
This must be stopped!
I love that movie. Our family gets together out at the farm and watches it every Thanksgiving. “Lord help the Mister / that comes between me and my sister / and Lord help the sister / that comes between me and my man!”
That Rosemary Clooney was one hot stack of woman.
I disagree with your idea that my only right is to fight against it. It doesn't belong there in the first place. Let those who want it bring it out in the open and win approval first, without trying to hide the immoral content from everyone but the kids in the classroom and online. Furthermore, while I doubt there is a single district where, if they would bother to ask, the parents would actually approve of this material, this has not been organized as a local program, nor has the program's content been openly acknowledged by its creators. This is nationwide marketing of liberal and IMMORAL ideology in the public schools and it is WRONG!
Franklin is always held up as if he were the sole signer, and he wasn't. Of all the Signers, only (I forget) two or three might not have been what we'd class as very conservative Christians. Even Franklin had come to have a high regard for Biblical morality. This is why I usually carefully speak in terms of a Biblical framework. They all had a high regard for that context, whatever their personal failures.
Dan
Indeed, libertarians are classical liberals. However, in that they support capitalism, low taxes, gun rights, property rights, etc. they are certainly not liberals in the present-day sense. Libertarians would also object to the federal government requiring schools to show such material as is being discussed here.
In the case of this libertarian, at least, my support for Bush's foreign policy also differentiates me strongly from from liberals.
So if you consider politics to be 1/3 economic, 1/3 social, and 1/3 foreign policy (which is what I judge it to be), I am 2/3 conservative.
So da na.
If the homosexual lifestyle is so benign, then how come it's so deadly?
Yeah, I can see why you say that. But some are more liberal than others. They do seem to pretty much support license without reason. "Because I want to" is all the reason anyone needs. They refuse to see that freedom is at its strongest only when the people restrain themselves. That means religion and morality are valued by society, a concept that just doesn't fit their idea of freedom = licentiousness.
The "gay" (well, he has the markers of a familiar gay type) character in Sponge Bob is the butt of all the jokes. Usually.
Not an unusual role, pretty common in American theater, radio, movies, TV for decades - and probably longer.
I'm not so sure about Cosmo on the Fairly Oddparents either. I think Wanda is his "beard."
Where did you get that icon?
This burlesque humor is nothing new at all. Its really pretty much been a constant running joke since bras were invented.
Have you tried explaining crossdressing Bugs Bunny to your kids?
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