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''Spongebob'' Creator Defends Diversity Video
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Posted on 01/20/2005 10:21:46 AM PST by Sub-Driver

''Spongebob'' Creator Defends Diversity Video Some Christian conservatives are angry about Spongebob Squarepants. The cartoon character joins peers such as Barney and Clifford ("The Big Red Dog") in a new video about tolerance.

Spongebob (left) appears in what the founder of the Christian conservative group "Focus on the Family" calls a "pro-homosexual video" aimed at school kids.

James Dobson says the cartoon sponge is potentially brainwashing kids by promoting tolerance for all sexual identities.

The video's creator says the remake of the Sister Sledge tune "We are Family" is meant to encourage racial harmony.

Spongebob and other popular characters promote diversity.

Creator Nile Rodgers says the video never mentions sexual identity.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dobson; homosexualagenda; spongebob; ultrafundie
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To: LanPB01

41 posted on 01/20/2005 11:16:46 AM PST by jb6 (Truth = Christ)
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To: jb6
These are the types of threads that get us labelled as hicks and nuts.

Maybe you should go to the web site of the "Log Cabin Republicans" instead.

In case you haven't noticed, our enemies think that everyone who believes in G-d is a "hick" and a "nut."

And I think the same of anyone who concludes from science that the world is random and meaningless who then goes forth to crusade against gender-specific pronouns.

If I ever concluded there was no G-d (chas vechalilah!), I sure wouldn't waste my time crusading for "social justice," I can tell you that!

42 posted on 01/20/2005 11:17:59 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Ken yo'vedu khol 'oyeveykha, HaShem!)
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To: Nowhere Man

Errata: Teem = Teen.


43 posted on 01/20/2005 11:18:03 AM PST by Nowhere Man (We have enough youth, how about a Fountain of Smart?)
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To: dead

Hey!

Don't put the bad mouth on Wilma!

I Do agree however, that Betty definately knew how to party.


44 posted on 01/20/2005 11:19:45 AM PST by WhiteGuy (The Constitution requires no interpretation, only enforcement.)
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To: Nowhere Man
All I can say is when they start using "Wacky Races" and any Krofft Brothers characters for their agenda, "let slip the dogs of war!!!!"

"Liddy- Liddy- Liddyville,
Not to be confused with Nitty-Grittyville,
The land of living hats, that's
LIDSVILLE!"

Told you guys the Seventies was the pinnacle of human civilization!

45 posted on 01/20/2005 11:22:20 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Ken yo'vedu khol 'oyeveykha, HaShem!)
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To: Sub-Driver

So, I guess SpongeBob wouldn't find Elaine "sponge worthy."


46 posted on 01/20/2005 11:22:27 AM PST by BikerNYC
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To: Zionist Conspirator
Hey . . . you kind of had to be there!

I hear ya.

47 posted on 01/20/2005 11:30:46 AM PST by niteowl77 (Socialist: someone who can't find his ass despite using other peoples' hands in addition to his own.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

***If I ever concluded there was no G-d (chas vechalilah!), I sure wouldn't waste my time crusading for "social justice," I can tell you that!***


Amen to that!


No God = every man for himself.


The "crusade for social justice" is the last gasps of the dying conscience of a post-Christian society.


48 posted on 01/20/2005 11:31:28 AM PST by PetroniusMaximus
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To: Sub-Driver

I betcha another rhetorical nickel that Dobson has homosexual fantasies


49 posted on 01/20/2005 11:32:56 AM PST by 68 grunt (3/1 India, 3rd, 68-69, 0311)
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To: Arkinsaw

How can Sponge Bob be a homosexual? A homosexual has to have a pee-pee and a poo-poo.


50 posted on 01/20/2005 11:34:27 AM PST by JesseHousman (Execute Mumia Abu-Jamal Soon)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

What have you got against the genius of Sid and Marty Krofft?

Didn't they come up with the classic "Sigmond the Sea Monster"?

(Just thinking about Saturday morning cartoons from my childhood makes me hungry for a bowl of "Honeycomb" cereal)

I wonder why...................


51 posted on 01/20/2005 11:35:56 AM PST by WhiteGuy (The Constitution requires no interpretation, only enforcement.)
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To: stevio

If I had kids I would let them watch Spongebob. I think he is a good role model. He is loyal, hard working, and honest. He is a bit of a dork though...... not that there is anything wrong with that.


52 posted on 01/20/2005 11:38:39 AM PST by dumpdaschle
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To: KarlInOhio

If Spongebob is hermaphroditic, he/she swings both ways AT THE SAME TIME. I hardly know what to say.


53 posted on 01/20/2005 11:40:52 AM PST by NCLaw441
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To: WhiteGuy

Squidward also takes classes in modern dance.


54 posted on 01/20/2005 11:41:07 AM PST by secret garden (Go Spurs Go!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Some Christian conservatives are angry

TRY ALL Christians are Angry!!!


55 posted on 01/20/2005 12:09:44 PM PST by gidget7 (God Bless America, and our President George W. Bush)
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All this hooplah about Spongebob. Nonsense. Now, if they had said the same thing about The Wiggles, I might have agreed...


56 posted on 01/20/2005 12:14:30 PM PST by transhumanist (Science must trump superstition)
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To: 50sDad
Sponge Bob is nutty, but not fruity. Dexter's Laboratory on the other hand is one sick show. I made the mistake of letting my little one watch a few episodes a while back.

In case you haven't seen it, it's cartoon about a little boy who's a "mad scientist." His older sister DeeDee is always annoying him and destroying his laboratory. In one episode Dexter competed with a rival scientist (a boy), while DeeDee had to fend off the affections of a pretty, long-haired blond boy.

I can recall the horror I felt at the end when the blond boy and the little scientist, heartbroken for different reasons, turned and stared into each others eyes, long & deeply, and then you saw HEARTS in them! The two boys held hands and went off in the sunset to "play" together. It was one of most disturbing things I've ever seen. I wrote to Cartoon Network, but got no response (natch). Now I just won't turn on that channel.

57 posted on 01/20/2005 12:20:27 PM PST by two134711
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To: glock rocks
We all knew Barney was queer...

Tell me it ain't so Sponge Bob

Is there any cartoon who is not gay? Some of our friends need to get a life.

58 posted on 01/20/2005 12:22:58 PM PST by george wythe
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To: Zionist Conspirator
Anyone who thinks Nile Rodgers is the creator of Spongebob Squarepants (which I've never watched) doesn't remember the Seventies!

Begging your pardon but, anyone who knows me will tell you (1) musically, I still practically live in the Seventies and (2) I tend to never forget a famous name. Yet, the name 'Nile Rodgers' barely rings a tiny bell. Chic and disco in general are okay but, it's not the kind of music that inspired me to learn the musicians' names. (Alice Cooper is a whole 'nuther story.)

So, maybe one's recollection of Nile Rodgers depends on what one was doing in the (mid-to-late) Seventies. ;O)

59 posted on 01/20/2005 12:24:40 PM PST by newgeezer (Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

HR Puff n Stuff, he's your friend when things get rough....

NOBODY I ask remembers Lidsville! Charles Nelson Reilly? Classic!!


60 posted on 01/20/2005 12:24:40 PM PST by waverna (I shall do neither. I have killed my captain...and my friend.)
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