This matter of a cartoon -- with animal characters -- should have the significance of fly-shit in pepper for rational, common-sense people who can accept that 10% of the population from before ancient history to the present is gay. Animal populations also exhibit this trait: some percentage of various species will be gay, no matter what.
Our government and institution have been assaulted by people who think that their own Christian values -- not shared by all Christians -- should dominate Supreme Court decisions and government policy. Our government and its laws is a secular version of morality and justice. It is a determination of moral values and rights deemed acceptable from an intersection of those among all religious beliefs. It is a determination as to what people have the freedom to do and no freedom to do in the best interests of progress and preservation of the Nation-State. This is why the bugaboo of "Sharia Law" will never be a threat to our American values. Not even a sizeable number of Muslim Americans will agree that Sharia Law should be part of that intersection -- which is the conscience of all persons -- not just the conscience of some Bible-thumpers in a fly-over state's mega-church.
LGBT rights and the transgender phenomenon (a very small number of people) is now generally accepted -- by many establishment Christian religions, by agnostics and atheists, by Buddhists and American Muslims and everyone else.
Kids will encounter the 10%-ers in grade school and high-school. They will encounter people in respectable positions who are gay. They may even be raised by a gay couple. So to sweep the facts and circumstances under the table by banning a cartoon from PBS is like complaining about a cloudy day. You may not like it, but everyone else accepts it.
The GOP has been trying to eliminate, attenuate and suppress PBS for decades, and not for reasons of some "Arthur" cartoon.
After the document declassifications of the 1990s together with artifacts like a taped conversation between Kissinger and Pinochet, "Frontline" and a program on NPR had broadcast this history surrounding Chile, GHW Bush as possible felon, and related matters.
GOP, within two weeks, introduced bills in Congress that further reduced federal participation in PBS funding. As we all know, PBS gets most of its funding from non-profit foundations and other sources.
For the rest of it, please get your cornpone, bible-thumping, Satan-Trump-worshipping religion out of MY country's secular government. Stop trying to suppress the rights of minorities which depend on the Bill of Rights and long-standing court decisions -- which exist as a safeguard to your populist intentions to suppress others.
If you don't like abortion rights and think it's morally wrong, don't get an abortion. Whether you were born gay or not, and you think you'll go to Hell for being gay -- either don't be gay, don't gay marry, or suppress your gay impulses and don't gay marry. Your soul should be unsullied.
And if you think that a Criminal President should be protected because he supports your cornpone shitass view to be imposed on everyone else, God damn you to Hell, and we'll see you in Hell if conflict ever comes to that. Criminal is criminal; the Law is the Law. It is not "GOP" or "Dem" and it's not "political". If you believe the narrative to the contrary, you don't belong in MY country. I'll ruin your day at every opportunity when I find you in the next 20 years if I live that long. And contrary to generally held Christian belief in forgiveness, you will remain to me as "Unforgiven" as Little Bill, English Bob, Skinny the saloon owner and other characters in the Eastwood movie of that name.
"I'm comin' out now! Don't anybody shoot! Anybody shoots . . . . I'll [you know the rest'] -- you, your family, and all your friends!"
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