Dr. Dobson Takes on Media over 'SpongeBob' Controversy

CitizenLink, a Web Site of Focus on the Family ^ | Jan. 25, 2005 | Gary Schneeberger

[Mockingbird For Short]

Dr. Dobson Takes on Media over 'SpongeBob' Controversy

by Gary Schneeberger, editor

Focus on the Family founder did not criticize a cartoon character, as has been widely reported, but was warning parents that the group behind a "diversity" video may put material in teachers' hands that could prompt them to teach kids that homosexuality is equivalent to heterosexuality.

Dr. James Dobson set the record straight today about the onslaught of media reports mocking him for comments he is alleged to have made about the cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants.

"I've been in the public eye for thirty-something years and I have never had my words more misrepresented than they were in this instance," Dobson said on today's installment of his internationally syndicated radio program. "I was said to be on the warpath for my dislike for SpongeBob — who supposedly has homosexual characteristics.

"I said no such thing."

What Dobson did say, in a speech last week in Washington during an event sponsored by the Family Research Council, was that SpongeBob is one of 100 popular animated characters that may have been co-opted by an innocuous-sounding group to promote acceptance of homosexuality to children. The group, the We Are Family Foundation, has produced a video slated for distribution to 61,000 public and private elementary schools; it features SpongeBob, Big Bird, Barney and others singing the old disco hit "We Are Family" and spreading a message of "diversity and unity."

And therein lies the rub — albeit well-concealed.

While words like "diversity" and "unity" sound harmless — even noble — 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. And there is ample evidence that the We Are Family Foundation shares — and promotes — that view.

"Unfortunately," Dobson explained, "the We Are Family foundation has very strong homosexual advocacy roots and biases."

For example, a tolerance pledge, which the foundation says it is "pleased to provide" on its Web site, reads in part: "I pledge to have respect for people whose abilities, beliefs, culture, race, sexual identity or other characteristics are different from my own."

And it's not the only piece of pro-homosexual content that has been posted on the group's Web site — some of it removed in recent days.

The curriculum booklet that will accompany the "We Are Family" DVD when it is sent to schools in March, for instance, is likely to contain resources for educators seeking to normalize homosexuality. Although that guide has not yet been made public, a 2003 manual, also associated with the "We Are Family" cartoon-character video, offered several exercises for educators that equate homosexuality with immutable characteristics, such as race or gender, and suggest it deserves limitless tolerance and acceptance.

Another previous curriculum posted on the We Are Family Foundation Web site, called "Writing for Change," includes exercises such as:

• Generating a Description - encourages students to discuss the definition of "lesbian."

• Talking About Being "Out" - offers worksheet questions and a discussion of "perceptions of sexual orientation."

• Uncovering Attitudes About Sexual Orientation - explores the impact of "homophobia" and "heterosexism."

• Developing definitions - presents a list of stereotypical definitions, including "compulsory heterosexuality." That is described "the assumption that women are naturally or innately drawn sexually and emotionally toward men, and men toward women; the view that heterosexuality is the "norm" for all sexual relationships."

"The institutionalization of heterosexuality in all aspects of society includes the idealization of heterosexual orientation, romance, and marriage," the guide states. "Compulsory heterosexuality leads to the notion of women as inherently 'weak,' and the institutionalized inequality of power: power of men to control women's sexuality, labor, childbirth and childrearing, physical movement, safety, creativity, and access to knowledge. It can also include legal and social discrimination against homosexuals and the invisibility or intolerance of lesbian and gay existence."

Tom Minnery, vice president of government and public policy at Focus on the Family, said reporters who have mocked Dobson for his comments have deliberately ignored these details in their quest to marginalize a pro-family leader.

"The media is trying to use this SpongeBob nonsense as a smokescreen, because they're not willing to tell the people what's really at stake," he explained. "What's at stake is the forced normalization of homosexuality in the public schools."

Dr. Bill Maier, Focus' psychologist in residence and a guest on today's broadcast, said he didn't think the media's efforts to undermine Dr. Dobson's integrity as a national spokesman for moral values would succeed.

"Clear-thinking Americans won't buy it," Maier said. "They've trusted Dr. Dobson for 27 years and will see through the media's SpongeBob charade."

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The Deception and Desensitization of America's Youth

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An excerpt from "Queering the Schools".

( At the end of this excerpt is a letter to the editor from Kevin Jennings of GLSEN. Following Jennings' letter is an interesting response from the editors. )

Hurricane GLSEN

An Introduction to GLSEN

Additional information posted here, here, and here.

 I encourage you to get a copy of the book The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values by Tammy Bruce, and read Chapter Four: First the Culture, Then the Children: The Agenda of the Radical Gay Elite and Chapter Seven: Destruction of the Innocents: The Left Targets Children.

 Homosexual Agenda: Categorical Index of Links (Revision 1.1)

 Documentation showing that the "saftey in the schools" issue is a ruse by GLSEN and other homosexual organizations.

 An excerpt from "The Danger of 'Safe Schools'"

 Changing minds

 Despite Gripes About Gay Themes, 'No Name-Calling' Initiative Spreads in Middle Schools -- These are details of the actual GLSEN recruiting materials:  http://www.stevekaneshow.com/glsenlp.htm -- I'm sure many of you followed the Gerald Amirault / Fells Acres Daycare case closely in the Wall Street Journal and other papers. A short summary follows below. In 20 short years, Massachusetts has gone from trumped-up persecution of people running daycare centers to teaching middle schoolers how to practice homosexuality. My God, our country is in trouble.

 The Saga of SpongeBob Squarepants

SpongeBob, Barney promote 'gay tolerance (FedEx to Sponsor in Gov't Schools)

 Right from the horses mouth:
Welcome to Gayapolis

Additional ways homosexuals try to desensitize children:

Title	Author	Age Group
123 A Family Counting Book	Bobbie Combs, Danamarie Hosler	4-8
ABC A Family Alphabet Book	Bobbie Combs, Desiree Keane	4-8
All Families are Different	Sol Gordon, Vivien Cohen	4-8
Daddy's Roommate	Michael Willhoite	4-8
Duke Who Outlawed Jelly Beans	Johnny Valentine, Lynette Schmidt	4-8
Heather Has Two Mommies	Leslea Newman, Diana Souza	4-8
Jack & Jim	Kitty Crowther	4-8
Jenny Lives With Eric and Martin	Susanne Bosche, Andreas Hansen	All
King & King	Linda De Haan, Stern Nijland	4-8
King & King & Family	Linda De Haan, Stern Nijland	4-8
My Two Uncles	Judith Vigna	4-8
Oliver Button Is a Sissy	Tomie De Paola	4-8
The Sissy Duckling	Harvey Fierstein, Henry Cole	4-8
Who's in a Family	Robert Skutch, Laura Nienhaus	4-8

 www.365gay.com/entertainment/news-gossip/barnes.htm

Targeting Children, Part 1: How the gay movement intends to capture the next generation

Targeting Children, Part 2: How the homosexual movement uses public schools as instruments of change

Targeting Children, Part 3: Activists encouraging experimentation

Targeting Children, Part 4: Access to children: homosexuality and molestation

 It appears that "We are family" is a gay anthem. Mr Nile Rodgers is a hero to the Gay community.
Google "We Are Family gay"

Google "Nile Rodgers gay"

 Have a look at this:
Groups Allege Cover-up In Gay Video Purge At Lincoln Memorial

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

The BM (Big Media) did this exact same thing to Jerry Falwell years ago. "People For The American Way" called a big press conference in which they announced that Falwell was launching a crusade against the "Tinky Winky" kids' cartoon character for being depicted as a gay.

The BM made a huge hullaballoo over this and ridiculed Falwell nonstop for weeks on end as being paranoid, delusional, hateful etc. But something smelled rotten to me. If it's Falwell who was launching this big anti-Tinky Winky crusade I asked myself, then how come it was not he who called the press conference? How come it's a HyperLib group like PAW?

So I dug a little deeper by going to online conservative sites, and sure enough the truth was there! It turns out that Falwell was just as surprised to hear the news about his big crusade as anyone else. The real story is that a writer who worked for one of Falwell's publications was discussing the increasingly pervasive presence of gay themes on TV, and mentioned Tinky Winky in passing.

This cartoon character is depicted as a male who carries what looks exacly like a purse, he has an inverted triangle on top of his head (the gay symbol) and is colored lavender (the gay movement's chosen color). As a result of this, Tinky had long since been adopted by gay websites and other gay media as an unofficial mascot, with his image appearing all over the place. Although most owners of cartoon copyrights vigorously defend their property rights with legions of lawyers who sue anyone who uses their creations without authorization, for some strange reason Tinky's owners never seemed to mind his image appearing all over the Gay Universe.

So the bottom line is that one writer in one of Falwell's newsletters mentioned Tinky and his connection to the gay movement in passing, and the ever vigilant PAW spun it as a Big Crusade by Falwell against a cartoon character. The BM joined in as their willing accomplices, bringing a landslide of scorn down onto Falwell's head.

And now this week we have the BM lying about Dobson vs. SpongeBob. History repeats itself!

[Mockingbird For Short]

Wow.

"If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you." --Jesus

I'm not saying that everyone the Left attacks and hates is a "martyr for Jesus"; some bring it on themselves by being obnoxious! But I think that Dobson is hated because of Whom and what he stands for.

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

They most certainly have....and they've removed even more in the past 24 hours.

This is so that the "legitimate" journalists who look into the story by visiting the "We Are Family" website (as opposed to "illegitimate" Pajamahedin journalists) will see no traces of the homosexual agenda, and can then report to the nation that Dobson is full of it.

OTOH, those ever-annoying Pajamahedin will go out and use their sneaky, underhanded technique of finding cached versions of the website to demostrate all kinds of evidence of the homosexual agenda just recently deleted from the website. But of course, the kneejerk apologists for the homosexual agenda - i.e. the Media and a number of Freepers on these threads - know better than those scurrilous Pajamahedin!

[little jeremiah]

Homosexual Agenda Ping + More on the Dr. Dobson and SpongeBob homosexual indoctrination story.

More links, more info - a link to Dr. Dobson's radio broadcast. I know you'll find it hard to believe, but the Mainstream (or is it Midstream?) Media actually has distorted what Dobson said!

Let me and DirtyHarryY2K know if anyone wants on/off this pinglist.

Note - isn't it amazing how shameless these people are? Trying to hide their real agenda by removing incriminating homo-indoctrination junk from their website(s), knowing full well that Google has it. And freepers will post it for all the world to see.

Remember what freepers were called a couple of years ago? Wasn't it "A fierce, warlike tribe..."?

[nicmarlo]

of course, the kneejerk apologists for the homosexual agenda - i.e. the Media and a number of Freepers on these threads - know better than those scurrilous Pajamahedin!

you got that right!

[nicmarlo]

don't forget about the FReepers who exposed CBS/Dan Rather. They got called something like pajama journalists initially....which evolved to "pajamahadeen."

[AppyPappy]

The group pulling the material from their site speaks volumes.

[em2vn]

I don't know how many. Do you have some numbers and names?

[EdReform]

BTTT!

[EdReform]

Follow up article on the We Are Family video that is being sent to public schools in March.

[EdReform]

Bump & Ping

[little jeremiah]

I hope the lurkers and media types are taking notes - and copying material.

Too bad Rush is such a slacker on moral issues. I rarely listen to him any more. I don't think that his heart is in the wrong place; it's more likely that his vision is clouded due to his own moral failings and the lack of desire to fully face them. Just my speculation.

Sometimes he'll give a good rant; but mostly he's just talking about politics as a chess game or something. Unless he's changed lately.