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.
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!
Errata: Teem = Teen.
Hey!
Don't put the bad mouth on Wilma!
I Do agree however, that Betty definately knew how to party.
"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!
So, I guess SpongeBob wouldn't find Elaine "sponge worthy."
I hear ya.
***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.
I betcha another rhetorical nickel that Dobson has homosexual fantasies
How can Sponge Bob be a homosexual? A homosexual has to have a pee-pee and a poo-poo.
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...................
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.
If Spongebob is hermaphroditic, he/she swings both ways AT THE SAME TIME. I hardly know what to say.
Squidward also takes classes in modern dance.
Some Christian conservatives are angry
TRY ALL Christians are Angry!!!
All this hooplah about Spongebob. Nonsense. Now, if they had said the same thing about The Wiggles, I might have agreed...
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.
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.
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)
HR Puff n Stuff, he's your friend when things get rough....
NOBODY I ask remembers Lidsville! Charles Nelson Reilly? Classic!!
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