Posted on 01/29/2005 6:19:53 AM PST by Ellesu
STONY POINT — About a half-dozen James A. Farley Middle School students sported SpongeBob SquarePants pajamas or pants yesterday in support of the cartoon character's right to be himself.
SpongeBob Support Day was the idea of seventh-grade class president Jordan Uffer, who wanted to protest opinions expressed about the character's link to homosexuality.
"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."
The SpongeBob issue made the news after the Rev. James Dobson spoke to about 350 people in Washington, D.C., during Inauguration Week, saying a video to be sent to 61,000 elementary schools in March had a subtext that promoted homosexuality. Dobson is founder and chairman of Focus on the Family, an organization that says it promotes Christian, Bible-based family values.
The video features cartoon characters ranging from SpongeBob SquarePants and Winnie the Pooh to Clifford the Big Red Dog and Jimmy Neutron singing "We Are Family" and supporting tolerance of diversity.
While the video itself is innocuous, the group that created and distributes it, the We Are Family Foundation, gets support from groups that promote tolerance for homosexuality, Dobson said. The foundation's Web site also asks people to show understanding and tolerance for differences, including sexual orientation.
"SpongeBob has no idea what's going on in life, and he has fun with everything," Uffer said, explaining SpongeBob's appeal. "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."
One of the reasons Uffer got his go-ahead was that the school participated this week in No Name Calling Week, said Farley Principal Alice Gottlieb.
No Name Calling Week was created last year, inspired by characters in a book by James Howe called "The Misfits." The children in the book, who were targets of name-calling based on their weight, intelligence, height or sexual orientation, run for school office on a platform to erase name-calling through a No Name-Calling Day. Farley seventh-graders read "The Misfits" and discussed its message of tolerance in class this week.
"This whole SpongeBob thing came to the kids because of that," Gottlieb said. "They're just great kids. It just bothered them."
Uffer asked his seventh-grade classmates to wear either SpongeBob gear, yellow or a tie (SpongeBob wears a tie) yesterday to show their support for tolerance and the character. Fewer than a dozen students appeared to participate. Trevor Wargo was one of them. Wargo not only wore SpongeBob pants and a top, he painted "Save Sponge Bob" on his forehead and both cheeks.
"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."
and yet they have been "approved" for use as school matrials.
This stuff is not for highschool kids, this is for YOUNGER THAN 10 years old kids. The homosexuals want to arrest the development of children before they become interested in the opposit sex.
It is creepy because they are following the textbook pattern of child molesters.
I realize that it is hard to admit when you are wrong--particularly when you have publicly made an ass of yourself. I feel for you, but you are not the my judge.
True.
Oh myyyyyy I cannot believe the level of denial!! Where have these people been??
Silly question, it's the very denial that helps the left worm their way into the lives of our children.
Please tell me that is a joke! That isn't a real package is it??
No pun intended, Lord!!
This stuff is not for highschool kids, this is for YOUNGER THAN 10 years old kids. The homosexuals want to arrest the development of children before they become interested in the opposit sex.
It is creepy because they are following the textbook pattern of child molesters.
I know, so creepy it makes me physically ILL!!! I wonder if htere is any hpe the new head of the NEA can stop more than just the one action by these molesters.
It is very very very real. That is not the only keebler fudge cookies with spongebob either. It seems the fudge cookies are being associated with sponge bob in this marketing program. (personally saw a package with the fudge stripe cookies)
Yes and I compared those kind of people to the frenchies. IMHO, there's really no difference. They are sacrifcing the innocent, and in this particular case, it's the children.
It is very very very real. That is not the only keebler fudge cookies with spongebob either. It seems the fudge cookies are being associated with sponge bob in this marketing program. (personally saw a package with the fudge stripe cookies)
Ya know, it's insulting to the extreme, that they think they can shove it in our face left and right, ram it down our kids throats, and even in cookies. And they know we will get their subtle undertones, they don't care. They will just laugh and call us rediculous!Insulting!
Yes and I compared those kind of people to the frenchies. IMHO, there's really no difference. They are sacrifcing the innocent, and in this particular case, it's the children.
Yes they are.Right down to adopting them. It's pure perverted selfishness!!!!!!!!!
VERY WELL SAID BUMP!!!
DITTO!
LOL I shoulda sent money to Free Republic!!! Very cute!
Heh, heh. I 'borrowed' that from one of the FReepathons!
quite a thread huh? I cannot believe some of the opionions, even bashing, and on this forum!! Unbelievable!
They are failing in their duties to protect the minds of the innocent because the adults like the messenger.
Tammy Bruce exposes the agenda in her book The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values in Chapter Four, First the Culture, Then the Children: The Agenda of the Radical Gay Elite and in Chapter Seven: Destruction of the Innocents: The Left Targets Children.
Excerpts from Chapter Four:
"The radicals in control of the gay establishment want children in their world of moral decay, lack of self-restraint, and moral relativism. Why? How better to truly belong to the majority (when you're really on the fringe) than by taking possession of the next generation? By targeting children, you can start indoctrinating the next generation with the false construct that gay people deserve special treatment and special laws." (Pg.88)
"I believe this grab for children by the sexually confused adults of the Gay Elite repesents the most serious problem facing our culture today." (Pg.94)
"Between GLSEN, the Happy Penis, Phil, and now Kami, I'd say the Gay Elite have your children as a captive audience. Whether you like it or not, they have appointed themselves your children's moral tutor." (pg.119)
You're welcome! See reply 356.
It is hysterical that NOT ONE suit realized the double meaning of this. I don't believe it for a nanosecond. particularly with the children being the target of the keebler elves marketing tool. A "tollerance campaign" and now "Fudge" filled cookies, this is going to be a financial train wreck for the franchise.
This is just like the Chevy "No-va" in south america. No va = spanish for no go.
Even now the ford focus is gigled as teh ford "f**k us" in non-english countries.
I read it....unfortunately, those who need to most will not believe its content.
Additional documentation here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1331200/posts?page=44#44
(gotta go - back tomorrow!)
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