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Buster the bunny pops on his backpack, visits lesbian family and starts row
Guardian ^ | 1/28/05

Posted on 01/29/2005 1:41:17 PM PST by ambrose

Buster the bunny pops on his backpack, visits lesbian family and starts row

Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington

Friday January 28, 2005

The Guardian

To the untrained eye, Buster is just a bunny, an innocuous cartoon character on American educational television. Each week the animated rabbit puts on his red backpack and trainers to visit a slice of real America - dropping in on a native Indian reservation in Wyoming, or maybe a Hispanic family in Los Angeles and sending a video postcard of the event to his friends. The series, designed to show the diversity of the modern family to primary school children, is produced with $100m (£53m) of federal funding by the public television network PBS. It has a mandate to promote tolerance.

But then, Buster Baxter visited a farm in Vermont to learn about harvesting maple syrup. His hosts on Sugartime! were a lesbian couple and their children. Although the parents remained in the background - as they do during all of Buster's travels - their very appearance on children's TV was too much for the education secretary, Margaret Spelling.

Ms Spelling wrote to the president of PBS this week, saying: "Many parents would not want their young children exposed to the lifestyles portrayed in the episode."

The politician also asked the network to return federal funds used to make the episode, adding: "Congress's and the department's purpose in funding this programming certainly was not to introduce this kind of subject matter to children, particularly through the powerful and intimate medium of television."

PBS withdrew the offending episode, which had been scheduled for distribution to its 350 affiliates. However, the Boston station which produced it said it was going to make the episode available to broadcasters.

Last week, two conservative Christian organisations accused the cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants, an underwater sea sponge with two buckteeth, of conspiring to promote homosexuality to children. In the hugely popular television series, he holds hands with Mermaid Man as well as Barnacle Boy.

However, the yellow sponge managed to avoid the wrath of Christian conservatives until last week when it emerged that he was to star with other animation names, such as Big Bird and Barney, in a DVD remake of the hit We Are Family - a song intended to promote tolerance, which was to have been distributed to primary schools across the country.

Focus on the Family, a rightwing Christian group from Colorado, pronounced on its website: "While words like diversity and unity sound harmless ... enough, the reality is they are often used by gay activists as cover for teaching children that homosexuality is the moral and biological equivalent to heterosexuality."


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; pbs; postcardsfrombuster; recruiting
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1 posted on 01/29/2005 1:41:17 PM PST by ambrose
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The series, designed to show the diversity of the modern family to primary school children, is produced with $100m (£53m) of federal funding by the public television network PBS.

Meanwhile, VA Hospitals are shut down due to lack of funds, and we are told there isn't enough money to guard our borders.

2 posted on 01/29/2005 1:42:16 PM PST by ambrose (.)
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To: ambrose

PBS should NOT be funded by TAXPAYER dollars!


3 posted on 01/29/2005 1:43:56 PM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: ambrose

HEADLINE SHOULD READ: 'Sugar Making Fruits Sour Top Banana'


4 posted on 01/29/2005 1:45:38 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth (Bringing the Gospel to idiots one slug in the guts at a time...)
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To: ambrose

God bless you, Margaret Spelling. Stay strong.


5 posted on 01/29/2005 1:45:53 PM PST by Faith
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I will say, my tax dollars funding this junk makes me mad.
But another part of me remembes when I was a kid, and it looks at my friends kids, and thinks " Wouldn't I have thought that was the kids mom, and her friend?" It would never have crossed my mind that they were both "mommy" to the kids I was watching gather maple syrup on the tv. Does the show portray them overtly as being gay, and both mommy, or does it just have them there, doing the dangereous stuff in the maple syrup gathering, like drilling the hole in the tree? I really wonder.

BTW, I'm not a troll, I'm just opining.

6 posted on 01/29/2005 1:48:21 PM PST by RepublicanReptile ('Open your mind, close the Border")
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Last week, two conservative Christian organisations accused the cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants, an underwater sea sponge with two buckteeth, of conspiring to promote homosexuality to children. In the hugely popular television series, he holds hands with Mermaid Man as well as Barnacle Boy.

So, just like with Tinky Winky, they're going to pretend that Christian conservatives just pulled this out of their hats. They're going to ignore the fact that grown gay men swoon over Spongebob, and have since before most of these Christian conservative leaders ever heard of him. I can't even imagine what it was any more, but there was some news show where a gay guy in his forties was mincing about with glee because he had just purchased a Spongebob doll. As he said, "My parents wouldn't buy me a Barbie when I was a kid, but now I can buy all the Spongebob I want!" You go, girlfriend.
7 posted on 01/29/2005 1:51:20 PM PST by Rastus
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God bless you, Margaret Spelling. Stay strong.

...because,alas,you're gonna need it.

8 posted on 01/29/2005 1:53:07 PM PST by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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Thanks, Ambrose, for posting this article. It clearly shows the evil intentions of the homosexual lobby and exposes the liberals for the corrupt, vice-spreading subversives that they are.


9 posted on 01/29/2005 1:53:40 PM PST by TheCrusader ("the frenzy of the Mohammedans has devastated the Churches of God" - Pope Urban II, 1097 A.D.)
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This is the standard, predictable tripe from the Guardian. When they're not upset about something, it's a good time to become alarmed that something bad may be in the works.


10 posted on 01/29/2005 1:57:31 PM PST by SolutionsOnly (but some people really NEED to be offended...)
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How many conservatives on on school boards? How many school boards are controlled by conservatives?


11 posted on 01/29/2005 1:58:52 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: PetroniusMaximus; EdReform; scripter

Thought you good folks might be interested.


12 posted on 01/29/2005 1:58:57 PM PST by k2blader (It is neither compassionate nor conservative to support the expansion of socialism.)
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dropping in on a native Indian reservation in Wyoming, or maybe a Hispanic family in Los Angeles

Buster is awash in the leftist agenda. Not only is he pushing the gay agenda, but also is he promoting stereotypes to keep people on the farm, so to speak.
13 posted on 01/29/2005 1:59:36 PM PST by kenth (my dog ate my tagline)
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Yep. They'll scoff and say, "it's just a cartoon" and pretend we're being crazed right-wingers.

My reply: "It's not the cartoon, it's the agenda stupid."


14 posted on 01/29/2005 2:01:07 PM PST by kenth (my dog ate my tagline)
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In my household, the only television channels my children can watch are the Cornerstone network, and maybe Fox News Channel. The producers of most network television stations are obviously homosexuals, bent on spreading their filthy habit into the subconscious of our children. Just watch Nickelodeon and count how many times you see a shot of a boy's behind, two girls hugging, or even a subplot about a 'sleepover'. Its discracefull in the eyes of our Lord.


15 posted on 01/29/2005 2:07:04 PM PST by Eliot Rosewater
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Fox News Channel? They're no better than any other network in terms of selling sex for ratings.


16 posted on 01/29/2005 2:14:04 PM PST by ambrose (.)
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To: Eliot Rosewater

Yawn, another troll-school dropout.


17 posted on 01/29/2005 2:18:00 PM PST by Admin Moderator
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Does the show portray them overtly as being gay

I heard they were both wearing plaid, so that's a "yes"

18 posted on 01/29/2005 2:18:18 PM PST by xm177e2 (Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
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Buster the Bunny should visit the Guardian in England. "Now, children, can you say dishonest, bigoted, liberal-suck-up, birdcage-liner of a newspaper? I knew you could."

Congressman Billybob [TWO different columns this week]

Click for latest, "Homer, Shakespeare, Pope, and George Bush"

Click for latest, "Dusty Rhodes, a Death in the Family"

19 posted on 01/29/2005 2:19:11 PM PST by Congressman Billybob (Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.)
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*LOL* I bet they show up on threads like these a lot.


20 posted on 01/29/2005 2:21:48 PM PST by k2blader (It is neither compassionate nor conservative to support the expansion of socialism.)
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