Online push for Bert, Ernie to have gay wedding on 'Sesame Street' + FReep Poll

NYDailyNews.com ^ | Tuesday, Augsut 9, 2011 | Rich Schapiro

[DogByte6RER]

This idea isn't going to make a big splash with Rubber Duckie.

An online campaign to pressure the producers of "Sesame Street" into having lovable roommates Bert and Ernie get married is gathering steam.

Getting hitched would change things for Ernie, who has long sang about how his bath toy, Rubber Duckie, "was the one."

More than 700 people have signed on to the petition, posted at change.org.

"We are not asking that Sesame Street do anything crude or disrespectful," reads the petition for the muppet merger. "It can be done in a tasteful way. Let us teach tolerance of those that are different."

A debate over the sexuality of Sesame Street's most famous duo has dogged the show since Bert and Ernie first appeared in 1969. The puppet pair sleep next to each other and bicker almost as much as a married couple.

But the producers of Sesame Street say Bert and Ernie's relationship is purely platonic.

"Bert and Ernie are best friends," the non-profit Sesame Workshop said in a statement. "They were created to teach preschoolers that people can be good friends with those who are very different from themselves.

"Even though the Sesame Street Muppets ... possess many human traits and characteristics, they have no sexual orientation."

[relictele]

Here’s a hint to Rich Schapiro and the rest of the lazy MSM....idiotic ‘causes’ are proposed and endorsed every hour of every day on the Internet. That does not make them newsworthy.

[drumr337]

This is not new . They have already done this some ten years ago . They had a campaign with the schools . The kids were asked to partner up with their best friends and have a “friendship marriage” along with Bert and Ernie . Boys were married to other boy's and girls married to girls .

[kearnyirish2]

“I doubt that anyone has become gay or will become gay due to watching them on Sesame Street.”

It is about “normalizing”. If they showed them getting AIDS, gay-bowel syndrome, and burning in the fires of Hell, then I’d say it is a fair portrayal.

[SampleMan]

My children have grown up not having a clew as to what Sesame Street even is.

I don’t think they have missed a thing.

[Right Wing Assault]

No, I want Ernie to have a sex change operation and turn him into Ernestine. Then they can get married.

[thefactor]

Jeez, next thing you know frogs and pigs will fall in love with each other!

[Texas Eagle]

Do you think Bert and Ernie should tie the knot?

Yes. It's a great way to show people who think we are crazy for suggesting PBS is a propaganda tool for The Left to finally see for themselves that we are right.

[Texas Eagle]

"Even though the Sesame Street Muppets ... possess many human traits and characteristics, they have no sexual orientation."

Really? Then where do Baby Muppets come from?

[kevkrom]

The good news is that even flaming libs I know think this is a dumb idea -- sexuality in any sense is totally out of place on Sesame Street.

[Marathoner]

Another reason to defund (or outright eliminate) PBS. Just like NPR (National Socialist Radio), what’s the point anymore? It’s not like there aren’t a gazillion alternatives available.

[Psalm 73]

As Christians, we are supposed to speak the truth in love.
But they make themselves so damned hard to love - they are quite an un-loving crew, and the more room they are given the more vile they become.
Prostitutes, heroin addicts, alcoholics, thieves, etc. at least have some modicum of humility about their sinfull behavior - they don't really toss it in your face and laugh at you - but the homosexuals, they are in a sinner-class all by themselves, or so it seems.
Very difficult to try to reach out to, even though they are perhaps more broken than many.
Well, that my rant o' the mornin'.

[Caipirabob]

Online push for Bert, Ernie to have gay wedding on 'Sesame Street'

And in a year, they can have a special where Bert brutally clubs earnie to death and dismembers the body for spending too much time in Oscar's garbage can...

I mean, they want "reality", why stop at a wedding?

[Focault's Pendulum]

Poll Results

Thank you for voting.

Do you think "Sesame Street" stars Bert and Ernie should tie the knot?

Yes, it's a great way to teach young viewers a valuable lesson	11%
No, it would be out of place on a children's TV show	87%
I'm not sure	2%

[LottieDah]

“...And while their sexual orientation has been rather suspect for the last 42 years...”

I always thought Bert and Ernie were brothers.

[GreenLanternCorps]

Bert and Ernie are homosexual? Does George Bailey know about this?

[bmwcyle]

Yes, it's a great way to teach young viewers a valuable lesson 11%

No, it would be out of place on a children's TV show 87% I don't care what they do with that rubber duck.

I'm not sure 2%

[GreenLanternCorps]

On a serious note, when I watched “Sesame Street” as a kid in the early 70’s it never crossed my mind that they were anything but roommates. It is contemptible that “activists” have to ruin childhood with groundless assertions about every character.

[jimt]

Freeped and bumped. Currently 86% NOT APPROPRIATE.

[ElkGroveDan]

Don’t forget the candy store owner Mr. Lopar in “Handy Manny” who lives with his mother.