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.
Respect the person not necessarily his beliefs which is the summary of my comments.
A lot of people who are promoting acceptance of sodomy also are against smoking and fast food - which take far fewer years off one's lifespan.
If it involves anything sexual, have him arrested and put in jail. If your heterosexual neighbor tries to teach your daughter about heterosexual sex, arrest him and put him in jail.
The use of the word is inappropriate. It implies that one should "show deferential regard for" and that one should "relate" to as well as "avoid interference with".
I am quite sure that their use of the word is not meant to convey #2.
You may certianly hold homosexuals in high esteem, there is no requirement for anybody else to. Liberals choose words very carefully. Tolerate morphs into respect, "clump of cells" dehumainzes and "choice" means killing babies on the way out.
I'm not buying what you're selling.
I repeat, garbanzo, "If you ask any person who's been in any Teacher Education Program at almost any college, they will confirm there is a "plot" to undermine/challenge parental authority and values. It doesn't stop/begin with the homosexual lifestyle, although this is one major part of the NEA's agenda; they begin to inculcate the teachers while they are in college during their education in the Teacher Education Programs. Again, I say, ask any person who has been in any Teacher Education Program at almost any college and they will confirm this, if they are being honest.
I will not respect the person who does this either. Why should I respect those who choose to be evil?
How does a parent compete with that, other than pull them out and homeschool their kids?
So you think people who disagree with you ought be killed for example? Or just deprived of legal rights?
That is just crap! If something must be "tolerated" the starting assumption must be that it is "wrong". Why else should it be tolerated.
Not every person is a treasure either. I'm not sure anyone outside the homo community would call the two deviants that murdered Jessie Dirkising "treasures."
Diversity as strength is just a liberal platitude used to draw in the "group rights" crowd to their ticket. No one has ever given a proper explanation of how our differences are our strength. Its just hollow pap - mind candy for the PC dummies.
Predjudice and discrimination is something that we should do more of. I am predjudiced against mean or disrespecful Children playing with mine and I discriminate against them heavily when it comes to who my kids will associate. I am predjudiced against people who live destructive lifestyles, such as drug users and alchoholics, and I discriminate against them by non association. I am predjudiced against the rap culture and the misogynist lyrics of their music, therefore I discriminate against using my free time to listen to that crap. I am predjudiced in favor of my wife, therefore I have discriminated against every other woman on the face of this earth as to whom I will committ my life to.
It is pure BS to have this "diversity" mantra shoved down our throats without anyone ever taking the time to actually investigate whether it is truly our strength(no way) or just mindless PC drivel.
Is the plot masterminded by the Greys or the Illuminati?
Truth is never obligated to tolerate error.
An analogy, suppose someone holds to the belief that 2+2=5, a charitable person would correct them. If they insisted on maintaining this belief it wouldn't be a reason to persecute them and one may decide to tolerate it, for holding to this error really only hurts them initially, but they still should be corrected.
The problem lies in when they begin to spread this error to others, like let's say your accountant, the fiscal manager of a company, your child's school teacher. This is when the live and let live attitude will not do as a response.
The whole tolerance pledge assumes moral relativity, religious indifference, and the non existence of objective truth.
By resorting to sarcasm, you obviously can't allow yourself to hold a discussion on what the teachers are being trained to do on any truthful level.
Watch out for the http://www.whitehouse.--- ! Insert .com and you'll be whisked away to a porn site. For the record (and you probably know this), it's .gov.
G/greeting.
i've been lurking for several months, but haven't found a place to do a proper introduction...So hello.
Now...on to the topic at hand...
Working as a cosmetologist, and living in a very gay town(Santa Fe), i've known a lot of queers, and the one thing they all say is that they knew from a very young age that they were gay. i've yet to meet one that was "indoctrinated" into the lifestyle. So while there are a lot of things in this world O/one should be concerned about when raising children, that isn't one of them. No one can turn Y/your kid gay.
While i respect that E/everyone is intitled to an opinion on the nature of it, whether it's a sin, or perverted, or okay, shouldn't some level of tolorence be taught? If for no other reason than to prevent the loss of O/one's own child to the prison system because they've beaten or murdered(or with the current social trends, said something mean to...*gasp*) a "perverted fag"?
My littlest grandsons love this program too!
This is disgusting.
Please show me where I said that. Having no respect for someone does not equate doing them harm.
If you think it does then perhaps you should consider what it is in you that makes you think that way.
Having no respect means just having no respect.
how creepy!
My (10 y.o.) nephew is the only kid (of two) in his school who can't stand Sponge Bob. He thinks he's "a dork."
I kid him a lot about it, even got him a huge "Sponge Bob" throw blanket for Christmas, as a friendly joke.
I agree. Characters like Sponge Bob are developed for the good "characteristics" they have. I personally get so sick and tired of the gay/lesbian/transgendered/extremely confused gang and agenda hijacking icons such as these.
Well, I sit back and take in all the forces out there that are trying to re-arrange our thought patterns. Mind control comes to mind here.
Something isn't right and it frightens me, because there isn't much "I" can do about it. :(
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