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Bert and Ernie - not gay (Sesame Street says, Marriage??? No Way!!)
Seattle PI ^ | Aug 11, 2011 | CHRIS GRYGIEL

Posted on 08/11/2011 8:24:58 PM PDT by dayglored

They've lived together for 42 years and share a bedroom, but the people who produce "Sesame Street" made it clear on Thursday: Bert and Ernie are not gay.

Nor are they heterosexual. They just are.

"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.

"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 in a statement posted on Facebook.

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(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bert; childhood; ernie; homosexualagenda; notgay; pbs; sesamestreet
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To: dayglored

Marriage also depends on one’s measure of reality too. I mean, years ago a man and his wife, both dog owners, married their dogs to each other. The big point is, I could care less whether or not some people think of certain things as married, but don’t come around asking me to believe your interpretation of reality.


41 posted on 08/11/2011 11:08:12 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: Antoninus

Is it too much to ask that we also portray things that children should realistically expect to deal with, such as the fact that two guys or two women living together aren’t automatically homosexual relationships, and that there’s plenty of nonsexual aspects worth enjoying about life in general. I mean, seriously, if both myself and my wife enjoy dirt biking, hiking, and other cool things, that’s a real plus to married life, isn’t it?


42 posted on 08/11/2011 11:11:32 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: Morpheus2009
> ...and yes, I am pretty incestophobic...

Incest is taboo almost universally among humans, and for very good biological/genetic reasons, aside from the moral ones. I think your "phobia" is well-grounded in reality.

Bert and Ernie are different (tall/short, dark/light, etc.) but are best friends. They're a great model for the idea that people who are different can get along. Having them both be male allowed them to be best buds without the assumed hint of romance if one of them had been female -- it's rarer in real human relations for a male and female to just be best buds.

The idea that Bert and Ernie must be homosexual just because they share a room and are best friends is offensive to the vast majority of people who have had same-sex roommates. There could be no greater, clearer demonstration that the homosexual activists will stop at nothing, than this unfortunate petition.

43 posted on 08/11/2011 11:19:40 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: DManA
Bert and Erny are child-like characters for children. This mania for forcing adult sexuality onto children is so perverted and just pain evil.....

Ditto. Let children be children.
44 posted on 08/11/2011 11:23:24 PM PDT by PA Engineer (SP/XX12: Time to beat the swords of government tyranny into the plowshares of freedom.)
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To: PA Engineer

It’s impossible that Bert and Ernie are lovers, for the simple fact that Bert obviously never gets any, while Ernie seems to get it regularly, or so his snicker-laughter would seem to indicate.

Excuse me, I have to go rub her ducky. ~snicker-laugh~


45 posted on 08/12/2011 12:07:33 AM PDT by tarotsailor
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To: tarotsailor

According to some 16th century literature I’ve read duckies were another term for breasts. Or did you already know that?


46 posted on 08/12/2011 5:42:15 AM PDT by tal hajus ("Thank you sir. May I have another?" GOP)
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To: dayglored

Very Well said, dayglored.

Your statement IS, in fact, the opinion of the majority. We realize that homosexuals deny this fact, but it is a fact, nevertheless. This spectacle that they have, for years, emboldened themselves to perform for society, has become just another sad reality of why the human condition is an absolute failure.


47 posted on 08/13/2011 11:04:20 AM PDT by ourworldawry
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To: tal hajus
> According to some 16th century literature I’ve read duckies were another term for breasts.

Yet another perfect example of how reading FreeRepublic daily will broaden your vocabulary and make you more literate. :)

OTOH, I'll never be able to view Ducky in quite the same way again...

48 posted on 08/13/2011 11:52:12 AM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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