SpongeBob Squarepants is one of the popular children's TV characters appearing in a new 'tolerance' video.
Posted on 01/08/2005 7:02:35 AM PST by NYer
In a new video to be distributed to 61,000 schools across the nation, homosexual activists are using popular children's TV characters such as SpongeBob SquarePants and Barney the dinosaur to surreptitiously indoctrinate young children into their lifestyle, a pro-family activist group charges.
SpongeBob Squarepants is one of the popular children's TV characters appearing in a new 'tolerance' video. |
Based on the 1970s hit song "We Are Family," the video will be distributed to public and private elementary schools nationwide March 11, along with lesson plans for teachers, points out the American Family Association.
The distribution, sponsored by FedEx, will coincide with the video's broadcast March 11 on Nickelodeon, PBS, and the Disney Channel in celebration of the proposed National We Are Family Day.
AFA researcher Ed Vitagliano sees the project as an "open door" to a secondary discussion of homosexuality, noting the the foundation has a "tolerance pledge" on its website that children and others are encouraged to sign, which includes sexual orientation. [Editor's note: This story previously linked to the website of a group that has the same name but no connection to the video. WND regrets the error.]
"While we want everyone to respect other people's beliefs, we do not consider it appropriate for children's television to be used in an effort to indoctrinate children to accept homosexuality," he said.
Vitagliano says the foundation is employing a bait-and-switch approach, with popular children's figures such as Arthur, Dora the Explorer, JoJo, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Big Bird and Bob the Builder.
The objective is to get children to the foundation's website "and there they're given the full pitch about homosexuality," he said.
Video producer Christopher Cerf called the video an "unprecedented event."
"For the first time characters from all of the important kids shows came together to appear in the same video," he said in a November news release. "The producers and performers from each show embraced the spirit and message of this project."
The We Are Family Foundation was founded by singer-songwriter Nile Rodgers, who wrote the hit song recorded in 1979 by Sister Sledge.
The video was financed by a grant from the Toni Mendez Shapiro estate.
"Cooperation and unity are the most important values we can teach children," Rodgers said. "We believe that this is the essential first step to loving thy neighbor."
The We Are Family Foundation says its partners in the production are the Anti-Defamation League, Crown Theatres, Disney Channel, FedEx, Nickelodeon, HIT Entertainment, Nile Rodgers/Sony Publishing/The Bernard Edwards Estate/Warner Chapel, Nelvana, PBS, Scholastic, Sesame Workshop, Toni Mendez Shapiro Estate, and WGBH-TV in Boston.
A Federal Express spokesman said the company is "proud" to provide shipping for the project.
"Promoting diversity is part of our corporate culture at FedEx," said William G. Margaritis, senior vice president, worldwide corporate communications.
Characters appearing in the video are from award-winning shows including "Arthur," "Barney," "Bear in the Big Blue House," "Between the Lions," "Blue's Clues, Bob the Builder," "The Book of Pooh," "Clifford the Big Red Dog," "Dora the Explorer," "Jimmy Neutron," "JoJo's Circus," "Kim Possible," "Lilo & Stitch: The Series," "Little Mermaid," "Madeline," "The Magic School Bus," "The Muppet Show," "The Proud Family," "Rugrats," "Sesame Street," "SpongeBob SquarePants," and "Zoom."
The video also features cameo appearances by entertainers Bill Cosby, Diana Ross and Whoopi Goldberg.
Perhaps you didn't notice the BOLD TYPE???
(SARCASM ON) The First Amendment says that Government must exorcise all traces of religion and theism from itself. Therefore, the Government should never consider issues of morality and of right and wrong. (SARCASM OFF)
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Morality and all of its associated concepts are based on the belief that some higher power is defining the correctness of human behavior.
I didn't say it was a problem for me...
Consider this Socratic dilemma...
One thing an evolutionist cannot answer is if their idea of a "big bang" theory is really an admission the universe is an Immaculate Conception...
DNA is the singularity that evolutionists rely upon by belief to support their theory. This is no different than the Big Bang - - just another Immaculate Conception...
Here ya go .. another customer for your ping list. Please add 'nicmarlo'
There's an argument upthread one person actually defending this trash.
DNA is the singularity that evolutionists rely upon by belief to support their theory. This is no different than the Big Bang - - just another Immaculate Conception...
Correct. Evolutionists have replaced belief in God as the Creator for a "i>belief in their theory. IMHO, this is idolatry ("blind or excessive devotion to something").
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1281440/posts
"...to promote tolerance and diversity of thought."
"Diversity of thought" should include "tolerance" of the religious beliefs of Jews, Christians, Muslims, and Buddhists who reject same sex sodomy.
There is no scientific evidence to prove the theory that homosexuality is genetic (although there are some indications that alcoholism may be, yet we will always consider that to be a character flaw and an "illness").
Thanks, NYer....didn't realize I was asking the wrong person, lol.
Then it is their choice, unless of course homosexuality is considered to be a birth defect...
Homosexuality is a CHOICE - - self imposed sterility...
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There are gays that find surrogates so they can have kids...
Homosexuals need the Adam and Eve model of heterosexual reproductive biology???
This surrogate monogamy of homosexuals and the marriage issue is an idolatry of perversion, an inherent need to ceremoniously sanctify their perversion and seek esoteric absolution for their guilt-ridden philosophy...
Next plan is to use Contraceptive Spongebob to teach young teens how to avoid pregnancy as they mate like wild rabbits through their junior high and high school years.
A perpetual Darwin Award winner for taking themselves out of the gene pool.
See # 209...
You did, never mind...
I wonder if the kids will be taught to "respect" Islamic jihadists?
It is one reason that the heterophobic homosexists call us "breeders".
For all of this talk of "diversity" (really perversity), you have to wonder about the "diversity" of 2 men or 2 women that are unwilling to pair up with a mate of the OPPOSITE sex; they seek out someone "like them" rather than embracing someone who compliments their "equipment". Men and women ARE different (beyond just physical appearance, there are hormonal differences, and cultural differences), homosexuals seem to have a problem with accepting people of the opposite sex.
Either we first establish as a premise of argument, and accept the fact that it takes (heterosexual relations) a secular standard of mammalian reproductive biology to define the nature of the debate in the temporal political sphere, or we allow the Left to advance their fallacies and cults of perversion...
Note: monogamy is a standard that is set by man...
So you believe diversity is our greatest strength?
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