Students wear SpongeBob gear to show tolerance

nynews.com ^ | 01/29/05 | RANDI WEINER

[KMC1]

What do kids know anyway...

[stopem]

Progressive liberalism socialism at its worst.

[silent_jonny]

What the hell?

"He's a cartoon," the 12-year-old Uffer, attired in SpongeBob pajamas, said. "I felt there was no reason for them to say that he was homosexual, and there isn't a real difference between gay people and not-gay people. We're all human beings."

No 12-year-old talks like that. And who names their kid "Uffer"?

[atomicpossum]

Might have needed a 'barf alert' for this one.

[sandalwood]

"Me and my parents were watching the news, and we saw that a few religious groups were saying it's homosexual. I got mad. I asked my Student Council supervisors if we could do a SpongeBob Support Day and they said yes."

Talk about "not getting it".

It's the VIDEO, not the CARTOON that Dobson opposed.

Not that I like the cartoon, either, but that's not the point of this story...

[silent_jonny]

Oops, my mistake--his last name is Uffer. But still ...

[1rudeboy]

Students wear SpongeBob gear to show tolerance

Now that is gay.

[silent_jonny]

LOL

[kizzdogg]

What kind of 7th grader watches Spongebob anyway? What happened to the cool cartoons from back in the day?

[Cagey]

I'm more of a stealth sponge bob fan.

[Piquaboy]

I use to be very tolerant of gay's, but I am reaching the point of being a homophobe and will if they keep pushing it just a little longer.

[silent_jonny]

What happened to the cool cartoons from back in the day?

They've been dumbed down and sanitized like almost everything else.

I can watch Bugs Bunny and Tex Avery cartoons now as an adult and still laugh my ass off. The likes of "Spongebob Parachute Pants" doesn't compare.

[dagoofyfoot]

...and there isn't a real difference between gay people and not-gay people


Lord have mercy....


The indoctrination is working.

[LauraleeBraswell]

I have a sponge bob tooth brush.

[IncPen]

"He's just funny," Wargo said. "You're not going to grow up to be gay because you watched a television show. That's absurd."

Maybe not, kid, but you're going to make Spongebob an emblem of stupidity, further denigrading your cause

[NHResident]

Hmmm....historically...lots of names which were based on notable family characteristices, occupation, etc...get changed when they are first written down....maybe this family started as 'Effers' short for....well, you know......

Also, amazing how the little twerps continue to mis-understand and mis-represent what was said - definitely shows that the effectiveness of brainwashing in favor intolerance for contrasting view points.

Mind-numberd and brain-dead is no way to go through life.

[EmilyGeiger]

Yes but did they really have to sully Winnie the Pooh like that? I love Winnie the Pooh. "Oh bother"

[visualops]

Well, the tolerance activists did a good job of fudging the whole story so no-one knows the facts.
These kids think SpongBob was accused of being gay- wrong.
Focus on the Family is described as a group that "says" it promotes Christian values.
Kids describe heterosexuals as "not-gay".
Dobson is said to object to a supposed "subtext" of the video- wrong.
And then we learn this:
"the school participated this week in No Name Calling Week".
Lovely.

[aspiring.hillbilly]

there is a big difference, gays are sexual degenerates....tell the 12 year old snot this...