Falwell claimed the purple teletubby was gay. Whatever happened with the notion of keeping little children innocent?
Technically true, perhaps, but it's the little lie liberals tell to make Falwell look stupid. Falwell was responding to what others had said for almost two years.
It may have started in early 1997, when the BBC, which produced Telletubbies, wanted to fire the human who played Tinky Winky for dancing in the streets wearing only a balloon. Gay groups protested and the Washington Post reported that gay groups have "claimed Tinky Winky as their own". (Washington Post, February 11, 1999, Page C01)
Next, on December 24, 1997, CNN reported that:
The Teletubbies also have a following among the gay community. Tinky Winky, who carts around a red handbag but speaks with a male voice, has become something of a gay icon.
Third, on April 17, 1998, the Village Voice praised the Teletubbies series for their gay Tinky Winky character.
Fourth, on January 1, 1999, in its New Year's IN/OUT list, The Washington Post anointed "Tinky Winky, the gay Teletubby," as next year's Ellen DeGeneres.
Then, in February 1999, after all of that - The National Liberty Journal, edited by Jerry Falwell, wrote an article warning parents that Tinky Tinky may be a gay role model. The article said Tinky Winky had the voice of a boy but carried a purse. Well, that was true. It also said:
He is purple the gay-pride color; and his antenna is shaped like a triangle -- the gay-pride symbol.
I don't know anything about the color purple and gay-pride, but the article was right about the triangle.
So Falwell pointed out what CNN, The Village Voice, and the Washington Post (twice) had already said about Tinky Winky being a gay role model.
And suddenly he was an idiot for suggesting it, while CNN, The Village Voice, and the Washington Post, who had all previously written about TInky Winky's status as a gay role model, probably jumped on the band wagon and made fun of Falwell.
I'm by no means a Falwell fan. Just wanted to set the record straight.
We can’t keep little children innocent. The “progessives” won’t allow it. Everyone must conform to their agenda,so everyone will be equally wretched.