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.
Ask Lou Reed. He claims that he and some male buddies used to give each other oral sex out of desperation.
Dee Dee Ramone was a junkie who would hustle as a male prostitute to get a fix. He never had a "boyfriend", he always had girlfriends.
These are "teens" and young adults.
You don't have to be a Christian to see what is abnormal and unhealthy or not.
Some also think that we should "respect" the "bravery" of the 9/11 hijackers and even of "brilliant" Nazi soldiers.
I prefer not to honor the "cunning" skills of a serial rapist/murderers like Ted Bundy or Richard Speck.
Vile acts are not worthy of "respect". Perspective can change "who is right" but on the whole, society/mankind is in agreement when some people serve the cause of evil.
You get the picture all right...
It seems quite hypocritical for homosexuals to desire forcing a monogamous standard on everyone, after all they do complain about certain other standards being "religious" zealotry - - monogamy is an Adam and Eve model, isn't it???
Anybody know what the heck Barney and SpongeBob will be saying to promote 'tolerance' with respect to sexual identity?
Part of me hopes that whatever they CAN say will be so watered down it will be pretty innocuous.
-- Joe
spongebobs dead...i killed him and i have the video to prove it!
They know what they're doing. They don't want anything short of respect. If you don't approve of homosexuality, you're the one with the problem, even if you are courteous to them.
To them, being courteous but still unapproving is as bad as egging their houses. In fact, if given the choice, they'd rather have the latter-- they can't be "victims" if you're courteous.
"Tolerate" means to NOT kill...
Yes, on a biological level, each creature has its "set" role, function, and purpose.
As far as your comments on polygamy, I do not read that it was ever God's wish or primary desire that man have more than one wife. (He made them Adam and Eve, not Adam and Eves). He may have allowed polygamy to occur, as He did and does allow many other things that were/are ultimately hurtful or harmful to mankind (read that FREE WILL and HARDENED HEARTS), but that does not mean that it is or was His original plan (before the fall, when sin first occurred). For example, in
Matthew 19:3-9 (NASB)
3 And some Pharisees came to Him, testing Him, and saying, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause at all?"4 And He answered and said, "Have you not read, that He who created them from the beginning MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE,
5 and said, 'FOR THIS CAUSE A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER, AND SHALL CLEAVE TO HIS WIFE; AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH'?
6 "Consequently they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."
7 They *said to Him, "Why then did Moses command to GIVE HER A CERTIFICATE OF DIVORCE AND SEND her AWAY?"
8 He *said to them, "Because of your hardness of heart, Moses permitted you to divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way.
9 "And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery."
A rogue's gallery of culture war leftists and Fed Ex too?
WTF is Freddie Smith...sleeping?
I liked you better as a bean.
Do you have any proof or links?
I would venture that pedophiles and pederasts are disproportionately homosexual far beyond their tiny percentage of the general population.
The fact that little girls are molested by men as pedophiles or pederasts does not detract from the first fact.
Added. i will let everyone know as soon as i get the advertisers updated
thanks nightshift
Do you deny that there are women who molest boys AND those who molest girls?
Do women who've had an addadictomy produce sperm? Where is the functional womb in a shemale?
Merely cosmetic surgery.
You can take horomones found in abundance in members of the opposite sex without having any surgery.
Your DNA won't change, though.
Then we also have teens on hormonal suppression for "birth control" as their bodies go through puberty; changes that will affect them for their entire lives. Couldn't some of this mucking about result in poor body chemistry? It does not have to be "genetic".
That Barney now he's obnoxious.
That one purple teletubby is definitely gay but again, it's just a person in a purple costume. Kids become who they are before they are five years old. Who are these materials aimed at?
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