Posted on 01/31/2005 5:04:03 PM PST by rhema
The news about the two controversial shows comes days after a media uproar over Focus on the Family founder James Dobson's comments about a children's music video featuring SpongeBob SquarePants. In the music video, SpongeBob and other children's characters—such as Arthur, Barney, and Big Bird—sing the popular '70s tune, "We are Family." While the video does not mention homosexuality, the video's distributor, the We Are Family Foundation, has a tolerance pledge on its website that includes "sexual identity." The video is being sent to 61,000 public and private elementary schools nationwide.
Speaking on his radio broadcast Jan. 26, Dobson said he has never had his "words more misrepresented" than they were during the SpongeBob episode. Although Dobson initially was criticizing only the tolerance pledge, some in the media were quoting him as saying SpongeBob is a homosexual.
Since Dobson made the comments, teachers' resources that focused on homosexuality have been removed from the We Are Family Foundation's website, Dobson said.
"Where [the video] is shown, schoolchildren will be left with the impression that their teachers are offering their endorsement of the values and agenda associated with the video's sponsor," Dobson said in a statement. "While some of the goals associated with this organization are noble in nature, their inclusion of the reference to 'sexual identity' within their 'tolerance pledge' is not only unnecessary, but it crosses a moral line."
More info here..
http://www.lifeway.com/lwc/article_main_page/0,1703,A=159255&M=200341,00.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1331582/posts
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I'm a lot more concerned about Mr Crab and how he ended up with a whale for a daughter.
The cynicism of the people who would foist their sexual practices off on children is revolting. It is little more than recruitment by buggers for a new crop of underage victims.
booked
Interracial adoption? If so, Mr. Crab had better be prepared for a fusillade of lawsuits from "concerned" liberal watchdog groups.
New York teacher and lesbian activist Jaki Williams tells other gay teachers that 5-year-old children are "developing their superego,"
Wow, Freudian clap-trap still has an audience.
"developing their superego,"
Yes, but can they spell it?
:)
"James Dobson has a problem with SpongeBob SquarePants"
No he doesn't! I've heard him say he doesn't on the radio - his problem is that NARAL is using these TV cartoon characters, which are so familiar to children, to sway the children's view that homosexual activity is NORMAL.
It's not normal activity - and millions of parents would not want this garbage taught to their children in school without the parent's knowledge.
Actually, they do.
Tinky Winky redux.
Created a fetish for Viking lasses?
These are some of the same liberals who cried and moaned about Joe Camel corrupting children.
I saw the news and actually heard about it on the am radio talk fest they have here instead of music. It absolutely amazed me how the MSM picked through what Dr. Dobson actually said and turned into "Christian speaker says Spongebob is gay." Just one more reason not to watch tv. What nonsense. It just goes to show, people are only going to hear what they WANT to hear, not the actual facts. Media bias at its best.
I developed a wish to become a Viking but it morphed into my dreams of becoming a pirate. Today I fly a jolly roger on my pontoon boat.
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