As I view it, Longcut, there is no issue simpler than this one.
I have no problem with homosexuals or their behaviors (though their actions don't exactly make me comfortable, per se), and I am probably one of the most "liberal" FReepers on this one issue, opposing any sort of Big-government legislation aimed at denying homosexuals the same legal rights as straight couples. I hate Dr. Dobson and nearly everything he usually stands for, such as his many obsessive quests against all percieved moral "lapses" in the entertainment industry. My respect for him is akin to my respect for the ACLU, Pat Robertson, the modern-day NAACP, and the Christian Coalition--- that is to say, NONE.
That said (and on the record for good), I have to say that I agree that the most basic outrages committed in this case were committed by overzealous, militant gay rights activists. I don't believe that it is now, nor is it ever acceptable for a political group to co-opt a popular children character or children's TV mascot for the advancement of their own agenda, and that is what is being done with SpongeBob Squarepants by his appearance in the tolerance video. Truth is, tolerance of the homosexual lifestyle is something that the government has no right to teach in schools using taxpayer dollars, and it is the specific duty of a child's parents and a child's parents ALONE (provided that the child has parents) to raise up that child within the religious or moral system that the parents may believe in. If this means that the child will grow up with a bigoted opinion of homosexuals, than so be it; the greater threat to America's freedoms in the long run is a government which takes upon itself the right to form the minds and opinions of children that said government neither conceived of, bore, or cares for.
There might be a few good, small-government libertarian 'Pubbies out there who understand what I am saying, but for the rest of you...FLAME ON!