Reply With Quotesomeone should e-mail those activist groups the LOTR short films, especially the merry and pippen bar talk.
Christians issue gay warning on SpongeBob video
Conservative Christian groups accuse the makers of a video starring SpongeBob SquarePants, Barney and a host of other cartoon characters of promoting homo******ity to children.
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.
But at least two Christian activist groups say the innocent cartoon characters are being exploited to promote the acceptance of homo******ity.
"A short step beneath the surface reveals that one of the differences being celebrated is homo******ity," wrote Ed Vitagliano in an article for the American Family Association.
The video is a remake of the 1979 hit song "We Are Family" using the voices and images of SpongeBob, Barney, Winnie the Pooh, Bob the Builder, the Rugrats and other TV cartoon characters. It was made by a foundation set up by songwriter Nile Rodgers after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, in an effort to promote healing.
Christian groups however have taken exception to the tolerance pledge on the foundation's Web site, which asks people to respect the ****** identity of others along with their abilities, beliefs, culture and race.
"Their inclusion of the reference to '****** identity" within their 'tolerance pledge' is not only unnecessary, but it crosses a moral line," James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, said in a statement released Thursday.
Rodgers said he was astounded by the attack.
"That is so myopic and harsh," he told *******. "You have really got to look hard to find anything in this that is offensive to anyone. The last thing I am going to do is taint these characters."
Dobson was quoted by the New York Times on Thursday as having singled out the wildly popular SpongeBob during remarks about the video at dinner this week in Washington, D.C.
SpongeBob, who lives in a pineapple under the sea, was "outed" by the U.S. media in 2002 after reports that the TV show and its merchandise are popular with gays. His creator, Stephen Hillenburg, said at the time that though SpongeBob was an oddball, he thought of all the characters in the show as a******.
It is not the first time that children's TV favorites have come under the critical spotlight of the Christian right. In 1999, the Rev. Jerry Falwell described Tinky Winky, the purse-toting purple Teletubbie, as a gay role model.
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someone should e-mail those activist groups the LOTR short films, especially the merry and pippen bar talk.
This is why I hate Bible thumping RIGHT wingers.They gotta ruin EVERYTHING a F'ing world has to offer.
why am I not surprised it's an american group...
yeah, america must be destroyed...Originally Posted by drGreen
why am I not surprised it's an american group...
NÀÀH
x2yeah, america must be destroyed...why am I not surprised it's an american group...
So, according to this "Conservative Christian" group, it's okay to respect the handicapped, to respect other religious beliefs (which, by the way would include the extremists among these other religions), as well as other cultures and races, but it's not okay to respect other people's ****** identities?Christian groups however have taken exception to the tolerance pledge on the foundation's Web site, which asks people to respect the ****** identity of others along with their abilities, beliefs, culture and race.
I wonder if they would give me a list of names of all the priests that have been involved in child molestation and ****** harrassment suits that have been settled out of court (and with non-disclosure agreements) that are still practicing?
Just a bunch of people with way too much time on their hands that haven't discovered a way wicked cool forum like this to hang out in.
They could devote all that time and effort to helping tsunami victims but that actually might be worthwhile.
How about they just suck on eachothers cocks, shut the **** up and maybe try to come up with something that isn't so retarded it makes some of the insanest rants on this forum look like brilliant rocket science.
Heard this morning with the guy behind "We Are Family" that the Christian group went to a wrong website, of the same name but a group that was very pro gay and lesbian and therefore thought the video was made by them. I don't know what the true story is, but it is just nonsense.
this dumbass christian group, probably thought it was this site then
www.waf.org rather than this one; www.wearefamilyfoundation.org
Dittox2yeah, america must be destroyed...why am I not surprised it's an american group...
nd yeh x3
Awesome.
People aren't allowed to disagree with homo******ity.
What an enlightened bunch you are.
And how enlightened is it to think Spongebob is gay?Awesome.
People aren't allowed to disagree with homo******ity.
What an enlightened bunch you are.
Utter Bull****
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