SpongeBob, Barney promote 'gay tolerance (FedEx to Sponsor in Gov't Schools)

WorldNetDaily ^ | January 6, 2005

[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.

[nicmarlo]

Model Hatch Amendment Letter

EdReform, please see my post #377; it may interest you.

[nicmarlo]

The only thing kids should learn is obedience to authority and that the world is filled with enemies who seek nothing but their harm.

WRONG. They are in school to LEARN READING, WRITING AND ARITHMETIC, not to be PSYCHOLOGICALLY MANIPULATED.

[nicmarlo]

Here's another link to a bit more information: The American Experience: For those who say, ''It could never happen here''

In March 1984 a remarkable real-life drama took place in seven American cities as hundreds of parents from all over the U.S. attended Hearings on the proposed 'Protection of Pupils' Rights Amendment'. Thirteen hundred pages of testimony were recorded from parents, public school teachers and citizens, giving eyewitness account of the psychological abuse of children in public schools......

[nicmarlo]

Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA)

The Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA) (20 U.S.C. § 1232h; 34 CFR Part 98) applies to programs that receive funding from the U.S. Department of Education (ED). PPRA is intended to protect the rights of parents and students in two ways:

* It seeks to ensure that schools and contractors make instructional materials available for inspection by parents if those materials will be used in connection with an ED-funded survey, analysis, or evaluation in which their children participate; and

* It seeks to ensure that schools and contractors obtain written parental consent before minor students are required to participate in any ED-funded survey, analysis, or evaluation that reveals information concerning:

1. Political affiliations;
2. Mental and psychological problems potentially embarrassing to the student and his/her family;
3. Sex behavior and attitudes;
4. Illegal, anti-social, self-incriminating and demeaning behavior;
5. Critical appraisals of other individuals with whom respondents have close family relationships;
6. Legally recognized privileged or analogous relationships, such as those of lawyers, physicians, and ministers; or
7. Income (other than that required by law to determine eligibility for participation in a program or for receiving financial assistance under such program).

Parents or students who believe their rights under PPRA may have been violated may file a complaint with ED by writing the Family Policy Compliance Office. Complaints must contain specific allegations of fact giving reasonable cause to believe that a violation of PPRA occurred.

For additional information or technical assistance, you may call (202) 260-3887 (voice). Individuals who use TDD may call the Federal Information Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339. Or you may contact us at the following address:

Family Policy Compliance Office
U.S. Department of Education
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C. 20202-5901

Link to other documents at the US Department of Education (Search term used = PUPIL RIGHTS

[SweetCaroline]

BTTT

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

...a confederacy of deceivers that, to obtain dominion over men in this present world, endeavour, by dark and erroneous doctrines, to extinguish in them the light, both of nature and of the gospel; and so to disprepare them for the kingdom of God to come.

[nicmarlo]

a confederacy of deceivers..

Exactly right, Sir Francis. But, Judgment shall come upon them all.

[FreeReign]

...the hyper-Amazon squirrel chick is NOT sexy or comely.

So then there are some squirrels you find sexy?

[garbanzo]

But no science or history or literature or art? Can you think outside of stupid cliches?

[nicmarlo]

Can you? You post sarcastically to anything not "in your box."

[nicmarlo]

What's so cliche about not supposed to be psychologically manipulating children? Or do you just NOT UNDERSTAND? You prefer to "be right" come hell or high water, just because of ego.

[Go Gordon]

"Promoting diversity is part of our corporate culture at FedEx," said William G. Margaritis, senior vice president, worldwide corporate communications.

Well, well, well. I hope FedEx can do without my company's business. I had already called a client and told them not to ship any documents to our office ever again after we had some problems with a couple of their delivery guys being rude and incompetent. I followed that up with a ban on all employees from using FedEx on outgoing services.

[Cogadh na Siths Girl]

When "a drunk" comes to the realization that he's destroying himself, he might be happy that all those people and their organizations, set up to help him, exist -- even though building them might be a "waste of time."

i didn't say treatment centers and support programs are a waste of time...i said trying to get a drunk into treatment before they are ready is a waste of time. You can talk to them until you're blue-in-the-face, but until they come to the realization, on their own, that they need help, it does no good. And it's much the same with gays. They just aren't going to hear what you're saying, or they'll twist it to suit their cause.

[weegee]

Quite a leap there from sharing and encouraging sexual fetishes.

[weegee]

You can talk to them until you're blue-in-the-face, but until they come to the realization, on their own, that they need help, it does no good. And it's much the same with gays.

Except that society has ridiculed those who WOULD offer to help homosexuals change/cope. Instead we are being told through such "sexual identity" conditioning that "it's alright" and such an "alternative" lifestyle should be presented to small children as normal and even encouraged if they are so inclined.

[RockAgainsttheLeft04]

Sorry, Blurbblogger, but I don't fool so easy.
Take the tripe to the tourists.

Fallwell is a grade-A, 100% nutcase-- the Al Sharpton of the right-- who just happens to share a few of your own prejudices (against gays) so you feel the need to defend him. Don't-- it doesn't speak well for your credibility.

Wasn't it Fallwell who spoke after the Sept. 11 attacks, blaming what he views as society's ills for the attacks, as if God were punishing us as He did Sodom and Gomorrah?
What a sick, disgusting bit of moral equivalency, more befitting a crazed leftist like Noam Chomsky than a so-called conservative.

Wasn't it Fallwell who waged an expensive, personal vendetta against Larry Flynt (another jerk) in Court over nothing more than a satirical attack comic Flynt had run in Hustler? Nothing less than the SCOTUS had to rule in favor of parody and the right to free speech in America (hence against Fallwell's attempted censorship). Talk about dodging a bullet; if Fallwell had prevailed, FR would have gone under years ago from the deluge of legal bills caused by the lawsuits of outraged, mocked lefties.

A hero? No thank you. Not to the Constitution, not to patriotism, and not to me.

[Cogadh na Siths Girl]

Except that society has ridiculed those who WOULD offer to help homosexuals change/cope.

Who cares what society says as long as there is one person who feels the need to seek out, and benefits from, such options being available?

And..well..."cope" is a rather broad word, and those forcing the "sexual identity" issues will claim that it's exactly what they're trying to do...help the confused "cope" with their sexual issues.

[weegee]

You can buy into the revisionist history that was used to slam Jerry Fallwell if you want, but the media outed Tinky Winky YEARS before Mr. Fallwell did:

http://www.rightgrrl.com/carolyn/teletubbies.html

Attack the man if you want but at least understand when the liberal media is deliberately pulling their Soviet-style tricks.

[weegee]

Embracing the desire to wear a dress or take horomone shots and cut your genitalia off is WRONG.

Confronting that desire and moving BEYOND it is what should be done (and is not through such an indoctrination program).

Drunkards can be fired (even if they only show up with a hangover or maybe make a public ass of themselves at parties) and have the state take their kids away for neglect. They are not permitted to "live free and be who they want to be".

[Bigg Red]

Just one step along the way in the overall plan to normalize pedophilia so that they can have sexual access to our children.