YASBIT: spongebob...too tolerant!

[PatboyX]

http://www.smh.com.au/news/Wor...621.html?oneclick=true

 

[miketheidiot]

need to register. I'm lazy

 

[conjur]

On the heels of electoral victories to bar same-sex marriage, some influential conservative Christian groups are turning their attention to a new target: the cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants.

"Does anybody here know SpongeBob?" Dr James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, asked guests on Tuesday at a black-tie dinner for members of Congress and political allies.

In many circles, SpongeBob needs no introduction. He is popular among children as well as adults who watch him cavorting under the sea on the Nickelodeon cartoon program that bears his name. In addition, he has become a well-known camp figure among adult gay men, perhaps because he holds hands with his animated sidekick Patrick and likes to watch the imaginary television show The Adventures of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy.

Now, Dr Dobson said, SpongeBob's creators had enlisted him in a "pro-homosexual video", in which he appeared alongside other children's television characters. The makers of the video, he said, planned to mail it to thousands of schools this northern spring to promote a "tolerance pledge" that includes tolerance for differences of "sexual identity".

The video's creator, Nile Rodgers, who wrote the disco hit We Are Family and led the group Chic, says Dr Dobson's objection stemmed from a misunderstanding. Rodgers said he founded the We Are Family Foundation after the September 11 attacks to create a music video featuring 100 well-known cartoon characters dancing to his song to teach children about multiculturalism.

Nothing in the video or its accompanying materials refers to sexual identity.

Rodgers suggested that Dr Dobson might have been confused because of an unrelated website belonging to another group called We Are Family. That site is owned by a South Carolina group aimed at supporting gay youth.

 

[daveshel]

I don't trust anybody who lives in a pineapple!

 

[GoPackGo]

I guess I am too old to get Spongebob

 

[alzan]

Dobson seems to be taking lessons from Falwell (Tinky-Winky from Teletubbies) and Don Wildmon (Mighty Mouse, et al.) It's very entertaining to listen to them spout their intolerant drivel about anything that isn't within their biblical world-view. The world would be nicer if they were to mind their own business, but less humorous. Have to take the thorn with the rose.

alzan

 

[sandorski]

Guilt by Association.

 

[Rainsford]

Any time I hear about someone like Dobson, my opinion of what it takes to get Dr. in front of your name drops a little lower. Used to be you had to know stuff about medical stuff, then it was you had to know something about something. Now they seem to have dropped that last requirement.

 

[HomerJS]

Don't you right wing conservatives have anything better to do like feed the hungry or cloth the naked?

 

[His Lord Uberdude]

I just think Spongebob is funny. Why does he have to be accused of being gay???????

 

[PatboyX]

Originally posted by: miketheidiot
need to register. I'm lazy

thats odd. i didnt have to when i found it on google news and i do now.

 

[her209]

OMG, too funny

Christian Conservative groups have issued a gay alert warning over a children's video starring SpongeBob SquarePants, Barney and a host of other cartoon favorites. The wacky square yellow SpongeBob is one of the stars of a music video due to be sent to 61,000 U.S. schools in March. The makers -- the nonprofit We Are Family Foundation -- say the video is designed to encourage tolerance and diversity. SpongeBob is shown in a scene from 'The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.' Photo by Paramount Pictures/Reuters

Dear god. Nooo!!!

 

[GoPackGo]

Originally posted by: GoPackGo
I guess I am too old to get Spongebob

you know...i took another look and Spongebob he looks pretty hot....

 

[Aegeon]

For anyone curious, they just showed the video in question on MSNBC on Countdown Keith Oberman, and there is definately nothing vaguely resembling any advocation of tolerance of people with different sexual lifestyles. The Conservative Christian groups in question have clearly lost their collective minds.

 

[sMiLeYz]

hahahhahahahhahahahhahahhahaha

 

[Tommunist]

Originally posted by: His Lord Uberdude
I just think Spongebob is funny. Why does he have to be accused of being gay???????

If they think he's promoting anything it should be retardation

Honestly - why do these people care? Spongebob is funny sh!te - I think these people are projecting their own repressed sexuality onto spongebob.

 

[His Lord Uberdude]

Originally posted by: Tommunist

Originally posted by: His Lord Uberdude
I just think Spongebob is funny. Why does he have to be accused of being gay???????

If they think he's promoting anything it should be retardation

Honestly - why do these people care? Spongebob is funny sh!te - I think these people are projecting their own repressed sexuality onto spongebob.

Agreed, but the kind of retardation that you can laugh at without feeling guilty.

 

[KidViciou$]

spongebob is pretty funny, i used to condemn it because it tried to live up to the greatness of ren & stimpy, but i watched it and it's pretty good

 

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: KidViciou$
spongebob is pretty funny, i used to condemn it because it tried to live up to the greatness of ren & stimpy, but i watched it and it's pretty good

does it reach the heights of ren & stimpy?

 

[magomago]

For some reason I hated Ren And Stimpy. Being a brainwashed little kid though, in order to get ready to watch "Doug" I had to prep myself of 30 minutes watching TV and that included Ren and Stimpy. I actually liked the episodes that weren't gross too much: which is about like 2 of them....

edit:
Though when i was a kid I DEFINITELY watched WAAAY too much TV. But I took out a lot of good lessons from Shows like Doug, Rocko's Modern Life, etc~

 

[Rainsford]

Originally posted by: Aegeon
For anyone curious, they just showed the video in question on MSNBC on Countdown Keith Oberman, and there is definately nothing vaguely resembling any advocation of tolerance of people with different sexual lifestyles. The Conservative Christian groups in question have clearly lost their collective minds.

I don't know abut having lost their minds...some experts think people often project feelings and motivations on others that they are afraid of having themselves. A man who is himself quite deep in the closet might see gayness everywhere he looks, for example. Of course it's just a theory

 

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: Rainsford

Originally posted by: Aegeon
For anyone curious, they just showed the video in question on MSNBC on Countdown Keith Oberman, and there is definately nothing vaguely resembling any advocation of tolerance of people with different sexual lifestyles. The Conservative Christian groups in question have clearly lost their collective minds.

I don't know abut having lost their minds...some experts think people often project feelings and motivations on others that they are afraid of having themselves. A man who is himself quite deep in the closet might see gayness everywhere he looks, for example. Of course it's just a theory

That would explain Dobson's bizarre obsession with gays and homosexuality.