Posted on 05/21/2019 6:54:52 AM PDT by Ennis85
Alabama Public Television chose not to air PBS’s Arthur episode that included a same-sex marriage.
In the episode, which aired nationwide May 13, Arthur and his friends attend their beloved teacher Mr. Ratburn’s nuptials to his partner.
APT preempted the episode by showing a re-run of Arthur.
Mike Mckenzie, director of programming at APT, said APT was notified by WGBH and PBS in mid-April about the episode entitled “Mr. Ratburn and the Special Someone” and decided to show a re-run. Mckenzie said APT has no plans to air the episode at a later date.
“Parents have trusted Alabama Public Television for more than 50 years to provide children’s programs that entertain, educate and inspire,” Mckenzie said in an email. “More importantly – although we strongly encourage parents to watch television with their children and talk about what they have learned afterwards – parents trust that their children can watch APT without their supervision. We also know that children who are younger than the ‘target’ audience for Arthur also watch the program.”
APT previously pulled an episode of Arthur in 2005, when Buster, a bunny character in Arthur visited a girl who had two mothers.
“'Our feeling is that we basically have a trust with parents about our programming. This program doesn't fit into that,'' Alabama Public Television's executive then-director Allan Pizzato told AL.com in 2005.
Misty Souder, a substitute teacher in McCalla, saw the celebration of inclusion on social media and recorded the episode to watch with her 9-year-old daughter. She and her daughter were disappointed when the episode, which still was named “Mr. Ratburn and the Special Someone,” turned out to be a re-run. Souder reached out to APT and used the experience to teach her daughter about the importance of speaking out for the minority groups.
“I just want her to be aware,” Souder said. “There’s too much going on not to stand up for stuff, even if it’s Arthur. I never thought I’d be going to battle for a gay rat wedding, but here we are.”
GOOD
Just wait until the episode where Mr. Rathburn is caught soliciting the local children.
Alabama continues to impress!
I am so sick and tired of our leftist medias constant efforts to “normalize” sick and perverted behaviors. It seems like almost every show has some type of propaganda normalizing perversion and pot use.
Sweet Home Alabama.
I say we decertify the whole rotten entity of the Perverted Broadcast System.
Sure you did, Misty, sure you did.
I tuned into Alabama PBS just this weekend to watch a gardening show. The gardener was a screaming queen who they glorified and showed endless photos of him dressed as a drag queen. So Alabama PBS is hardly homophobic.
So much for my ventures into gardening tv.
“Souder reached out to APT and used the experience to teach her daughter about the importance of speaking out for the minority groups.”
Being a “minority group” does not in itself extol virtue upon that group like liberal idiots insist on believing. Some are minorities because they are abnormal, deviant, dangerous to others, etc.
Mr. Ratburn’s class field trip to the pizza parlor cellar (episode #666)!
it is very important that young children be exposed to alternative lifestyles (at taxpayer expense of course)!!
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When I was a kid our local radio station banned the song “Timothy.” Three local boys had recently gone missing in a cave never to be found. The censors thought the song was too much for the kids in the area to deal with. In order to hear the song one had to find someone with an FM radio. To this day I remember those three boys whenever I hear of this type of censorship. Good for Alabama. Sometimes adults do need to be in control.
I gave up on those programs many years ago because it was obvious that the gardening (or decorating, cooking) subject matter was merely a thin disguise for the real agenda of normalizing perversions. I didn’t like the helpful hosts smiling while trying to program me.
From your description they’ve gone way beyond conditioning the audience to certain affectations and dapper dress. The goalposts have been moved right into the town common of Hell.
If any of this were normal it wouldn’t need “normalizing”. The natural order simply *is*. Meanwhile, dysfunctional fake stuff always needs 24/7/365 help in order to appear like there’s nothing wrong with it.
It sure goes a long way in explaining big government.
For many people watching a gay marriage, especially two males, is like watching sexual intercourse. It’s something that most consider indecent when done in public.
A television station doesn’t want to put stomach-upsetting material in front of its viewers. In Alabama’s case I think they just want to retain their audience.
I’m not expressing opposition to gay “marriage”.
Well, you can still catch Lidia and Martha Stewart on PBS and not feel threatened. Of course, I’d say the same about This Old House but maybe they are simply dressing as The Village People.
ONLY Alabama? Disappointing.
Was that P. Allen Smith? He’s certainly a bit light in the Crocs, but I had no idea he was a drag queen!
Look for the a follow-up episode in which Mr. Rathburn is diagnosed with an STD. The kids will get to learn about microbes!
Probably next season.
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