Posted on 11/21/2003 9:50:23 AM PST by scripter
bump!
PBS Cartoon Features Alternative Lifestyle
Seven years after ABC aired its controversial "coming out" episode of Ellen, homosexuality appears to be breaking new ground again—this time in cartoons.
The producers of the PBS children's show Postcards from Buster have filmed an episode in which Buster—a cartoon bunny who travels the U.S. meeting real people—visits a lesbian couple in Vermont. A little girl introduces Buster to "my mom and Gillian" before everyone sits down for dinner, USA Today reported. Although PBS has since said it will not air the episode, the producer—WGBH in Boston—says it will provide the episode to stations that want it.
In February, a regular character on The Simpsons is scheduled to come out in an episode that reportedly will feature a same-sex "marriage." Homer "marries" the couple, and his daughter, Lisa, supports the couple's relationship. The episode will air in the midst of a nationwide culture battle over the definition of marriage...
Pro-family leaders say both cartoons are another indication that homosexuality is moving further into the mainstream of society. "As any parent knows, kids are riveted to cartoons," Peter LaBarbera, executive director of the Illinois Family Institute, told Baptist Press. "…You're taking a kid and what he loves to do most—which is watch cartoons—and you're introducing an adult topic which is inappropriate..."
"It's extremely offensive that they would even consider doing this issue," he said. "…They're teaching the acceptance of homosexuality to toddlers..."
Simpsons' staffers began working on the episode after San Francisco issued marriage licenses to homosexual couples in early part of 2004, the Baltimore Sun reported. The California Supreme Court subsequently invalided the licenses.
"We thought it would be an interesting thing for Springfield to do," Simpsons executive editor Al Jean told the newspaper. "Lisa thinks it's good for civil rights. The reverend of the local Protestant church is opposed to it. Other people think tourists will come to town. Mayor Quimby wants the money. We don't take a position as much as explore everybody's positions."
For months, the homosexual community has been abuzz, trying to guess which Simpsons character comes out. The current favorite is Patty, Marge's sister...
"They're trying to get kids used to the idea that having two moms or having two dads is normal, when actually it's very abnormal and it's very harmful to children," he said. "This is the liberals' way of indoctrinating our children—all the while they lecture us about being intolerant and respecting diversity..."
"In a contentious debate between myself and some radical 'gays' who support the teaching of the 'gay' lifestyle to children, one of them asked me if and when I had 'chosen' to be heterosexual. "Was it at age 3, 6, 13, 19?" he asked, "Or did you (a female) just 'naturally' gravitate towards boys or men without any outside pressure or force?" This question, laden with implied meaning, is a favorite tactical 'trap' set by 'gays' for unsuspecting and unprepared heterosexuals...
My response, just below, seemingly disarmed them and after calling me a few obligatory names, they quit the debate.
"There was no 'choice'........there was never any question........my gravitation towards the opposite sex occured as naturally as breathing air. Now for yourself, 'something' occured that interfered with your natural 'gravitational' process towards the opposite sex and manhood that, in effect, stunted it in much the same way as a baby duck can have its natural progression towards becoming a mature duck interfered with and stunted. This usually occurs when a human causes the chick to imprint upon the human rather than upon an adult duck.
So does the 'interference' with natural progression make the baby duck into something other than a duck? That the chick seems to believe itself to be, and even tries to be human make it human in fact? Of course not. It's still a duck in every sense of what it means to be a duck. Just as you are still a heterosexual despite that you believe you are 'something else'..."
SCHOOL LIFE THREATENING TO GAYS? HATE CRIME HOAX!
Homosexual Activists Create a Crisis for Political Gain...
Tens of thousands of homosexuals have changed and more desire to change. Homosexuality is a behavior -- not a genetic trait. Based on verifiable evidence, there is no justification for same sex marriage, civil unions or domestic partnership legislation. None.
"Despite a rebuke from the new education secretary and an official cancellation by PBS, several large affiliates of the public TV network say they will air today a controversial episode of "Postcards from Buster," a cartoon series for pre-schoolers, that portrays homosexuality.
Shortly after taking office last week, Secretary Margaret Spellings denounced PBS for using public dollars to promote the homosexual lifestyle.
In a letter to the president of PBS, Spellings said: "Many parents would not want their young children exposed to the lifestyles portrayed in this episode. Congress' and the Department's purpose in funding this kind of programming certainly was not to introduce this kind of subject matter to children, particularly through the powerful and intimate medium of television."
PBS subsequently canceled the episode, entitled "Sugartime!" In the episode, Buster the rabbit visits a Vermont home headed by two lesbians.
According to a report in New York Newsday, WGBH, the powerful Boston public television station that makes the series, said it will air the program today and has offered it to other PBS stations. The paper says 18 stations plan to air it, including New York's WNET and KQED in San Francisco..."
I think everything up to here is in revision 1.2. Since it's going to be a major change, it may be called revision 2.0...
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