Posted on 03/10/2005 3:02:34 PM PST by The Loan Arranger
NEW YORK (AP) - A children's music video that conservatives charge is part of an effort to encourage acceptance of homosexuality is being distributed to more than 60,000 schools nationwide, producers said Thursday.
The video features about 100 children's TV characters including SpongeBob SquarePants, Miss Piggy and Oscar the Grouch singing the 1979 disco hit "We Are Family." It will be accompanied by a teaching guide that promotes tolerance of diversity.
"The opportunity to bring that message to children around the entire country is truly exciting," said Caryl Stern, senior associate national director of the Anti-Defamation League. "We know at ADL that people are not born as little haters, we learn to hate. And just as we learn to hate, we have to unlearn to hate."
To produce and distribute the video, the ADL teamed with the We Are Family Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded by music producer Nile Rodgers, who co-wrote "We Are Family."
TV networks and production companies also are involved, and FedEx has agreed to ship the videos for free.
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews1.iwon.com ...
In Vermont, a program was instituted called Outright Vermont. Vermont schools advertise this program on bulletin boards and the materials contain links to web sites which lead to adult gay male porn sites. Last year, NYT opened the first gay high school in the nation.
Former Gov. Gay Davis of California signed a sex education law that requires students to adopt a healthy attitude toward homosexuality. The NEA has been developing programs to incorporate the gay agenda into our public schools for children of all ages.
Many programs have been in place for over 20 years and the curricula is getting more radical each year.
NEA is trying to force state governments to require both home schoolers and private schools to teach pro gay agendas or refuse to validate their diplomas.
The NEA has successfully sponsored a curriculum which some schools have adopted that requires children to partake in "Gay Day" which involved playacting.
In March 2002, Penn State University featured an advocate of pedophilia at a women's health conference, despite congressional disapproval and parental concerns.
In 1998, the American Psychological Associated claimed that pedophilia often "does not cause intense harm on a pervasive basis."
The North American Man Boy Love Assoc. (NAMBLA) is a regularly quoted member of the gay movement and pedophile themes abound in their literature. Their web site quotes "...instead of condemning pedophiles for their involvement with lesbian and gay youth, we should be supporting them." The gay movement does not condemn these comments or ask that the Association refrain from attaching itself to their agenda.
The taboo against adult-child sex is eroding and the NYT and other cultural elite press regularly praise literary works containing pedophilia relationships. Poet Allen Ginsberg was a pedophile and member of NAMBLA. His poetry contained explicit references to pedophilia and yet when he died in 1997, journalists praised him as an icon whose poetry was without rival.
Researchers differ on the numbers, but approximately 25% of gay men report they wre molested as children which they blame for setting them on the road to homosexuality. This is not to paint all gays as having predatory motives, but I believe that gay marriage will provide an access to children through adoption that is unprecedented and dangerous. And yet, we are told that praying in school is dangerous to our children. Moral relativism is standing on its head.
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REALISTIC EDUCATION OPTIONS FOR TODAY'S WORLD:
1. Homeschool
2. A good private school
3. A combination of homeschool/private school classes
I have watched Nickolodean with my granddaughter a lot---
she and I both love Spongebob Squarepants--- she is 5 years old and thinks he is goofy, nothing more, nothing less---as it should be...
They have run commericals that feature all of the main characters of their cartoons and there is a "girl" whose voice is Rosie O'Donnell, that sings that song--I know Kailey didn't pick up on any "diversity" message at this point, but I did--
I just have to say that my granddaughter gets "diversity" every day of her life---she and her parents live in a middle to lower upper class neighboorhood. In her kindergarden class she has black kids, hispanic kids, middle eastern kids, white kids, boys, girls, a couple of "slower" kids---she is "best friends" with all of them
Unless they hit her or are mean---regardless of physical characteristics---
She does NOT need diversity crammed down her throat by groups that have an agenda---let these kids be kids and learn about life at the time that they HAVE to, not when lib activists determine when that should be,,,
Good suggestions.
Yep, this is just what today's students need. Forget about that reading, writing and basic math, manners and how to speak a coherent thought or articulate, understandable sentance.
Yep, "tolerance" will keep the lights on, the planes up in the air, your heat and phone on and gas in your car. "Tolerance" and "diversity" top reality and will solve all our problems. Un huh. Sure. The check is in the mail.
"children's music video that conservatives charge"
I am one conservative that does NOT charge that this video promotes homosexulaity. The We are Family Foundation:
" celebrates our common humanity and the vision of a global family by creating and supporting programs that inspire and educate individuals of all ages about diversity, understanding, respect and multiculturalism; and to support those who are victims of intolerance"
Were is the reference to homosexuality in this statement. I've seen the video, and again no reference.
The we are family foundation
http://www.wearefamilyfoundation.org/
is not
www.waf.org (which is a gay site that promotes homosexuality)
Promoting racial diversity and acceptance is a good thing IMHO.
Also my son and I kinda find Spongebob funny.
Thank you.
Anyways, I would appreciate if someone who has followed this SpongeBob thing could tell me the 411 on it.
(Although I have to say that I tried to watch SpongeBob once -flipped to some kids channel while surfing and stayed for a couple of minutes- and i almost got a headache! That stuff was just too silly. Goodness, a sea sponge that looks like a washing sponge, wearing square pants and living in a pineapple under the sea!!!!! The creators must have been using psychedelics when they thought of that concept! )
From the first paragraph of the website. "Diversity" is the key "code-word" for the queer agenda.
Come on people, it's a damn cartoon, get a life!
The problem is that the Left defines "tolerance" to mean acceptance. Of course, this is no problem for a movement that wants to redefine "marriage," for now, to include the union of two homosexuals.
Oh come on, no offence but I think thats kind of loopy. What I think happened is Dobson or someone who works for him got the two websites confused at the beginning and rather than admit the mistake kept the whole silly thing alive.
Again I've seen the video, nothing bad in it. Then again I caught a glimpse of Bert and Ernie and well..ya know...never did get that relationship :-)
It's not in that statement, and nobody's claiming that it is. Like the article states, it's in the teaching materials that were originally supposed to accompany the video. (I'm not sure if they made any changes to that plan. I've heard that they have, and I've heard that they haven't.) WAFF removed them from their website when AFA exposed it. Most people were so busy making stupid jokes, they never bothered reading the teaching materials promoting homosexuality and pedophilia. I had them posted on my profile page for a long time. Not too many people were interested. They just wanted to make queer Sponge Bob jokes. You can probably still find them posted somewhere, if you're interested.
I hope you're right. I think because Nickelodeon has aired pro-homosexual junk before people are up in arms. I would'nt trust Nickelodeon with my children-cartoon or not. They do seem to have an agenda, but most kids hopefully won't read anything into this stunt.
Well, if you kept up with the news you'd know that the We Are Family Foundation offered teacher lesson plans from the GLSEN (a homosexual advocacy group)that were to be sent to the various schools with the video. These lesson plans had activities involving homosexuality. These were deleted from their web site when Dr. Dobson called it to the publics attention. Since then the leftest pundits have blown it out of proportion spinning it that Dobson thought spongebob way gay.
I downloaded the teaching materials from WAFF's website, before they deleted them in a panic. There was no mistake about which website they were on. They were still available in google's cache for awhile after they deleted them. I know several people downloaded them from their site before they were deleted, and from google after they were deleted. You were probably busy making "Sponge Bob is gay" jokes while the rest of us were reading the documents.
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