Character in 'How to Train Your Dragon 2' comes out as gay

"How to Train Your Dragon 2" opened at the Cannes Film Festival last week with its stars in tow, a big party on the beach, and a life-sized Toothless the Dragon hanging out for photo ops with reporters.

The sequel to its $500 million blockbuster predecessor has a lot to prove, with the kid movie’s star Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) now a young man, and the Vikings vs. dragons conceit of “Dragons 1” rendered effectively moot as the dragons and Vikings have become best of pals.

But not even writer/director Dean DeBlois was able to cook up one of the new movie’s most surprising twists.

18 Interesting how we have moved from "the love that dare not speak its name" to "the love that will not shut its *bleeping* mouth" in such a short period of time. Homosexuals are too focused on instant gratification to recognize the dangers that are lurking just around the corner as a direct result of their "victory." Too bad none of their predecessors in Nazi Germany survived to tell them the tale.

Aside from the obvious that the homosexuals of that era didn't procreate, Pastor Scott Lively and Kevin Abram made the case in 1995 in their book ...

Their stated purpose was to counter historical revisionism by the homosexual political movement which had been attempting since the 1970s to fabricate a “Gay Holocaust” equivalent to that suffered by the Jews in Nazi Germany. The Pink Swastika, 4th edition, on-line

OFGS. I thought for a minute we’d have to skip this movie, and my kids have been looking forward to it for months. (They LOVE Toothless! We have a kitty who looks just like him, in the face. It’s quite a resemblance!) Luckily they say it’s just a throwaway line, and I’m sure I can make up some other reason Gobber says that.

But if they’re going to elaborate on this nonsense in another sequel, we may have to skip that one. Sigh. I wish to heck they wouldn’t do this crap with kids’ movies.

We saw this movie this week, and I just wanted to report in on the “gay” issue. Personally I think Craig Ferguson was having some fun with this (he is rather mischievous!) since the line he says in the movie could not possibly be construed in this way. There’s not enough information to even figure out what the character is talking about. Gobber says, “That’s the reason I never married. Well, that and one other reason.” This flew right OVER my kids’ heads. They had absolutely no idea. Had I not seen this article in advance, I think I would have thought he was missing his “manly bits” (since he’s also missing an arm and a leg).

For other reasons, I’d like to recommend supporting the movie. Honor, valor and family values are stressed throughout the movie. Several times, characters repeat a variation on, “A chief protects his own,” and indeed the “true” chieftain does just that. The dragons reject the reign of a dictatorial, bullying dragon for one that is brave and willing to fight, but clearly on their side. A parent who was not there when the child was young apologizes to the child for that lapse. Lots of good stuff in there. :)

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