EEEEEEEEK!
Did you know that SpongeBob SquarePants is promoting the HO-MO-Sexual Agenda?
Well, it’s true! It must be true because three fundamentalist Christian mouthpieces — Agape Press, the American Family Association, and James Dobson’s Focus on the Family — say it is true.
Look at this headline ripped, I say ripped, from the headlines of the American Family Association:
“Does anybody here know SpongeBob?” asked James C. Dobson as he took the microphone in front of assembled Republican members of Congress and other conservative Republicans assembled in Washington, D.C. to celebrate George W. Bush’s return to power.
Does anybody here really know SpongeBob? I mean reeeeeeeeally? This is a character who regularly holds hands with a starfish named Patrick! Sponges and starfish just aren’t meant to hold hands. It isn’t natural. And now…
…and now SpongeBob SquarePants is one of a shocking array of HOLLYWOOD ELITE CARTOON CHARACTER CELEBRITIES who are promoting the homosexual agenda. Ho-Mo-Sexual!
How do the fundamentalist Christians know this to be true? Why, it’s simple! Follow me:
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Appears for slightly more than ten seconds in a video
- Produced by an organization
- That has a website
- That has a link to a page
- That has the following sentence on it:
- “To help keep diversity a wellspring of strength and make America a better place for all, I pledge to have respect for people whose abilities, beliefs, culture, race, sexual identity or other characteristics are different from my own.”
- That has the following sentence on it:
- That has a link to a page
- That has a website
- Produced by an organization
- Appears for slightly more than ten seconds in a video
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!
As James Dobson puts it, “Their ‘tolerance pledge’ is not only unnecessary, but it crosses a moral line.” A moral line!
How dare they suggest we have respect for people whose sexual identity or other characteristics are different from our own? Respect for differences is immoral! The word “respect” is even kind of lispy!
And hey, it’s not just SpongeBob SquarePants that is promoting the HO-MO-Sexual agenda. Did you notice that “Winnie” (drag name) -the-”Pooh” (anal sex) is not wearing any pants in that video snapshot? Typical gay parade behavior. What’s Bill Cosby doing all alone with that little boy — and a dog (call Rick Santorum!)? What sort of alternative lifestyle might “Dora” be “Exploring” today? And how about Big “Bird” and Barney (is his last name “Frank,” by any chance?) — what is that — holding hands? And then there’s Kermit the Frog — a bachelor admiring a long cylindrical object with a rounded tip, hmmm…
That’s right, friends, it’s not just HOLLYWOOD ELITE CELEBRITY CARTOON CHARACTERS who are promoting the gay lifestyle, it’s NEW YORK CITY LEFT COAST METROPOLITAN PUPPETS, too. I’ve always had my suspicions. I mean, these are creatures that work when you stick yourself into their orifices, causing them to jerk and twist around, right? We all know what that means.
All I can say at this point is that the conservative fundamentalist Christians have left out a number of altogether reasonable targets, such as Big Bird’s “longtime companion” Snuffleupagus. Imagine that trunk, then think about it for a minute: Snuffle-up-a-Gus…
Thank the Lord Jesus Christ that we have the conservative fundamentalist Christians to come to the Republican Inauguration for George W. Bush and point this sort of thing out in public.
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“Their ‘tolerance pledge’ is not only unnecessary, but it crosses a moral line.â€Â
They actually said that?!?
Eesh… Yeah. Because Jesus wouldn’t have promoted tolerance. We all know how keen he was to go around organising mob attacks on blacks and homosexuals, right?
They call that “unnecessary”… Whilst they’re complaining about cartoon characters possibly linked to pro-tolerance… Ergh…
An added note, Nile Rodgers, the creator of this video and the man behind the magic was on the Today Show on Friday to comment on the hysteria. During the conversation with him he mentioned that there is a GLBT organizaition called “We Are Family” and that these religious leaders had apparently “Googled” the string “we are family” and landed on their website, thus creating a “scene”. Mr. Rodgers did say that one representative from one organization did indeed apologize, but there has been no comment from the others. Pretty sad state of affairs.
This proves it: The Republican evangelicals are against family values! Attacking a song called “we are family!” If that’s not proof of the anti-family values agenda of the Republicans, I don’t know what is.
William C. is right — and more, the organizations that found their mistake not only refused to admit it, they tailored their new argument to the one I mentioned above — that respect for people who have a different sexual identity from you is sinful, crossing a “moral line”.
How ridiculous!
I don’t understand…Don’t these alleged “Christians” ever read their
own bible? I seem too recall a line from that book that admonishes the followers to “Love thy God with all thy heart, and love thy neighbor as thyself” How odd that these so-called “religious leaders” should resemble the Phasisees to such a degree…and how sad.
Who Would Jesus Hate?
I’m not a Christian, but I’m pretty sure that the LACK of Jesus-teachings on homosexuality speaks volumes: it’s not what matters. If Jesus were around today, he’d probably be telling these homophobes to chill out and pay attention to more important things.
Yeah, more important things, like that someone said “damn” on TV!
What’s amazing is that these people will declare that Sponge Bob Square Pants is destroying society by leading children into gay sex orgies, but are totally incapable of seeing that there’s any problem with what’s going on in Iraq.
Those aren’t rose colored glasses they’re wearing. They’ve got to be crazy peuce colored glasses or something.
These nutjobs don’t speak for me. Bunch of quacks, if you ask me. You didn’t, but I’m saying it anyway.
Hey, Jean: I’m still waiting for proof of my degradation of women.
Remember: The parameters are: calling a woman a derogatory name (bitch, ho, slut, whore, etc.); stating that women are INFERIOR to men for simply being women; singling someone out for simply being a woman and making a defammatory or deragotory comment toward her for simply not being a man.
The challenge is there. You made the accusation, now BACK IT UP.
C’MON. I’M WAITING…
hey – wait a minute – Agape Press!?!?
Sounds like an operation that’s promoting oral sex to me! Omigod!!!!!!!! Ring the alarm bells!!! Protect the children!!!!!!!
…and Kevin, I don’t think Jean needs to be answering to a guy who didn’t bother doing his homework in the first place. Your attitude is getting increasingly radical right, man. Calm down.
“and Kevin, I don’t think Jean needs to be answering to a guy who didn’t bother doing his homework in the first place. Your attitude is getting increasingly radical right, man. Calm down.”
Sorry, Larry, but being accused of being a sexist isn’t something I take lightly. Maybe you do, but I don’t.
She has no proof. She knows it. She’s scared to admit it.
At least I ADMITTED I made a mistake. And Larry, I got my information earlier from a transcript I THOUGHT was complete. I didn’t intentionally deceive anyone. Even J.Mattew saw that.
For J.Matthew, ’cause I know how much it stresses him to have a thread go awry:
I find the actions of this group revolting. As the heterosexual son of a gay man, I can assure them and everyone that ‘gay’ isn’t transmitted via any media, much less ANYTHING other than genetics.
Kevin, you seem to think that this entire site exists as nothing more as a place for you to hold a pity party for yourself. You come on here, spout complete nonsense, and then complain and complain and complain about it — in what seems like a 24 hour, 7 day a week job for you.
It’s weird, because partisan Republicans like you control the White House, but you come here and act like you’re some kind of big victim. Very strange, Kevin. You are the continual source for lousy comments.
This article shows that your problem is not just a personal one, but seems to be institutional. The same out-of-proportion panic: Freaking out about a cartoon turning children into homosexual zombies.
Seems like the Republican right wing of America is suffering from some sort of personality disorder in which they feel persecuted by a combination of liberal web sites and cartoons. Oh, now THAT is a freaky conspiracy theory! Keep it up, Kevin. Maybe you can make the next Oliver Stone film, K?
Kirk, give it a rest. You may think it’s about Kevin. Kevin may, or may not, think it’s about Kevin. But it’s not about Kevin, who frankly is just a guy who most of disagree with on most things. It’s about the political, educational, military and religious authorities who are pushing this country in the wrong direction.
To the extent we turn it into a conversation about Kevin and how much he gets offended and affronted, we stop focusing attention on the powerful people and groups who are doing the biggest damage.
Whoops, I just did that.
So let me refocus with a question to the Christians out there: what do you do when prominent and powerful idiots like the fundies try shit like this in your name?
Kirk: Your entire argument is baseless and false. You obviously didn’t read my post. You seem to think I agree with the organization this thread is about. You are wrong. Again. If you wanna throw a pity party, count me out. I’ve got more important things to do, like clean the ear wax from my ears.
You wrote:
“This article shows that your problem is not just a personal one, but seems to be institutional. The same out-of-proportion panic: Freaking out about a cartoon turning children into homosexual zombies.”
So, Kirk Land, if someone calls you a pedophile and you take offense to it and call the accuser out on their untrue claim, it’s a “personal problem” on your part, when you disagree with their claim? I take great offense to being called a sexist, dude, and I don’t give a flying fuck who thinks what- an untrue and false statement BUGS THE SHIT OUT OF ME, AND I WILL SEE THIS ISSUE UNTIL ITS RESOLUTION. Got it, buddy?
Now, to the post at hand:
What do we do to people/organizations who try “shit” like this? We ignore them. Ignore them. Ignore them. Like a smelly fart in a gym locker room, they will eventually go away until they find something else to bitch about. Does anyone SERIOUSLY think that a group as radical as this will have their way when millions more logical people take them for what this organization is, which is beyond illogical.
But thank God they have the right to say their peace, however dumb and untrue it may be.
I denounce them wherever I can. Which is the same as you would do I suppose when hearing some of this nonsense, taken from an atheist web site.
“…, no atheist should ever have to pay takes on anything. We should get a card that says “registered atheist” and if we present it at the store, sales tax is waved. The same with property tax and income tax and every other tax you can think of. ”
“Not so. I made the calculations, and income from public companies, impositions on externalities-producing products like gas and cigarettes, and other such voluntary means can very well cover for a perfectly good government. ”
“If you don’t agree with the government, you should be able to opt not to fund it.”
“the natural state of the universe is zero or what he calls “flat space.” All grouping order falls into symmetry order or all “identity” loses and falls back into timeless/formless existence. I can see an inherent tendency to push a kind of quasi religious idea of oneness with the universe or possibly a social ethics based upon unity – which is already abundant today. The idea seems to be that since the universe is heading toward symmetrical unity then we should attempt to live that here on earth…”?????????!
or this piece of “logic” and grammar
“I really be came an atheist while studying engineering at University of Maryland. The book of Genesis contradicts every thing we know about science. I could not understand why the Gods(plural) were threatened by the Tower of Babel,why they did not intervene when the Eiful Tower, The Tokyo Tower or the Empire State building was built or sattelites were put into orbit. ”
-Quite an ‘Eiful’!
“nobody is real controlling america, brainwashing maybe.
bush has made it clear that he doesnt make the decisons. bush is nothing more than a proxy for the invisible sky-god
yeah, sure he does have some power at home, but i doubt he has that much power abroad”
“Can even curable believers, persons who have not yet encountered the falsifying evidence, be truly sane? Can a sane person believe in a higher life form, by definition more morally evolved than humans, who executes every human who will ever live in “punishment” for an alleged offense by their distant ancestors? Can a sane person sit on a toilet seat, or watch a TV ad for tampons, and not recognize that he is seeing a reality that could not exist if humans had been intelligently designed?
The four most observably evil men on earth are a Jew, a Catholic, a Methodist and a Muslim. Is that a coincidence? Or is it their religious beliefs that are the cause of their pathological hatred of the human race?”
“Gods were just a big joke, that’s how it appeared,
Disappointment followed all my prayers.
Then I saw his ass
Now I’m a believer”
“If I believed in God, I’d rather be a Devil worshipper. Fortunately I’m not that stupid.”
“We can never be sure there is no god, but we can be sure there is no Christian God, since it is logically impossible.”
Next time some goober asks if you believe in God tell them this: “I believe God is sex, and I definitely believe in sex.”
” One of the best ways to prevent terrorism is to spread Atheism.”
” Muslims are monomaniacal theists with little sense of human life. All has been turned over to Allah, the non-existent ‘author’ of the Muslim decay into mass barbarism. ”
And of course I know you remember well this last one…
“You’ve got a Methodist Coloring Book and you color really well, but don’t color outside the lines, or God will send you to hell”
But Benny, you haven’t denounced them yet!
Yer awfully defensive.
I said I denounce them (to their faces) wherever I can.
Do you really think that a lot of them are lurking here
on this site? Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha
OK, just in case any are: I hereby formally denounce your dumb ilk, and the dumb actions and statements that you make. You do not speak for the many many good, progressive Christians.
There!
Your turn…
Oh Benny, the problem is that the Republican Party has sold out to the James Dobson crowd. So, if you stand with the Republican Party, the James Dobson crazies DO speak for you, whether you like it or not. Now, maybe some reasonable Republicans will get the guts to stand up to the Fundamentalist Inquisition crew, but so far, the Republican leadership seems all too happy to let the Left Behind End Days folks have the keys to the castle.
Why aren’t rank-and-file Republicans doing more to stand up to the James Dobsons who have taken control of their party? Is it just that you like to make use of their political power too much to give them the boot?
Francesca: These “James Dobson crazies” you speak of HAVE NOT, I REPEAT, HAVE NOT infiltrated the Republican Party and certainly have not taken over.
Ask any level-headed Republican on the street their opinion of Sponge Bob and the whole “He’s Gay! He should be banned” nonsense from the crowd you speak of in your post.
The responses from the level-headed people might surprise you.
I live in a predominantly Conservative area of the country (Houston, TX), and I work with many Republicans, and I live near many Republicans. We have discussed this issue and they could only laugh at the absurdity of the charges from this group.
The problem here is that you, Francesca, and others like you are too happy and eager to lump all Republicans with the ‘fringe’ of the party. It only serves to justify your stance that Republicans are ‘the bad guys’ (my words, not yours), and does nothing else.
No, Kevin, they have indeed infiltrated the party and reached its core.
In this matter alone: James Dobson wasn’t making his SpongeBob comment off in some fringy place to his otherwise ignored followers. He was an invited speaker at inauguration festivities, with multiple Republican members of Congress and the Bush administration in attendance.
J.Matthew: There’s no convincing you. Forget it. Go on believing as you will.
You’re a Progressive- what the hell gives you the inside scoop on everyday Republicans? You don’t like us, you don’t want to like us, and you sure as hell don’t know us, as evidenced by your innacurate observation above, so by what authority are you basing your claim?
You know, I once attended a Slayer concert where the lead singer spoke about the joys of necrophilia. Does being at this concert and listenting to his speech make me lust after the flesh of the dead?
Then how does James Dobson giving a speech at a the Innaugural make anyone who heard it part of this group that is condemning a friggin’ cartoon?
Dude, I could get up in the middle of Times Square and tell the world that Destiny’s Child is ruining mankind. Does my speech in a public place make it so? Is that how an organization gains converts, but simply disseminating their stance to the masses? Are you saying a captive audience HAS ABSOLUTELY NO CHOICE BUT TO AGREE WITH THE INFORMATION PRESENTED TO THEM???
Plus, last I heard, Nickelodean (or whatever network it’s on) has no plans to cancel Sponge Bob. And it’s funny, whenever I go to the store, I STILL see tons of Sponge Bob merchandise on the shelves. Not in the bargain bin, but ON THE REGULAR shelves. Amazing, isn’t it?
Spongebob squarepants is not homosexual… He claims that the purple Teletubby performed oral sex on him.,and he is straight.
when reached for comment, the purple teletubbie claims that he is not gay…that James Dobson performed oral sex on him.
When reached for comment, Dr. James Dobson said a mouthful.
Kevin’s doing the “extreme reading” thing again. He wrote:
“Then how does James Dobson giving a speech at a the Innaugural make anyone who heard it part of this group that is condemning a friggin’ cartoon?”
‘Course it doesn’t, and I didn’t say that. Pay attention, I’ll say it in different words:
You claimed Dobson and his organization and the other organizations making the SpongeBob claim were fringe. Leaders of fringe organizations are not invited to speak to Republican members of Congress at the Inauguration of the President.
Still doesn’t matter, J.Matthew. Anyone who suggests that watching SpongeBob is a gateway to being a queer is, in my opinion, part of a fringe group.
And besides, did this group give an agenda to the President or anyone associated with the Inaugural beforehand, kind of an overview of what they wanted to speak about?
It’s not uncommon for a speaker to be invited to something and speak on a topic other than what they were invited to speak on in the first place.
Yes, Dobson is known for his “family first” views, but unless he said beforehand that he was going to speak on SpongeBob’s affinity for show tunes and musicals, you can’t fault the Republican members for what he said.
If you have proof that he submitted that topic for approval, by all means post it.
Hey, I finally spelled ‘inaugural’ right on the first try! Yippee!
Maybe you didn’t SAY that anyone listening to his speech is part of a fringe group, but I took it that you insinuated it.
And you should be used to my “extreme reading” by now, eh?
Oh, I think they’re fringy if you consider rationality and sanity to be the primary criterion. But if you consider integration into policy discussion and action networks to be a criterion for what is or isn’t fringe, Dobson, his groups, and these other groups are certainly not fringe. They’re well-integrated into the Republican political structure, and for that reason it is a good idea to know exactly what kind of crazy nuttery they’re up to.
Go to Focus on the Family’s website and you’ll see that this is not an aberration — Dobson’s been up to this sort of outrageously irrational media-bating for some time now. Dobson’s a well-known person and personality who speaks publicly on a regular basis — he’s got a radio show, for Pete’s sake — so I don’t buy the ignorance line.
J.Matthew: I’m not arguing that he doesn’t support what you have reported; I KNOW he does. He is has done it in the past and will continue to do so. I am not denying that.
Perhaps Dobson’s group is not a fringe group per se; but I assure you, at least when it comes to gay cartoon characters, their views don’t represent the majority of Conservatives- at least none that I know. The Conservatives I know think that this whole gay cartoon character thing is silly. And it is.
I think it’s because he was staying at the Sri Lanka Sex Hotel.
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Typical Republican response, Kevin. Sure this stuff is mainstream with Republican Christians. Haven’t you seen how wacko the whole Republican Congress got when it was discovered that a video game ALREADY rated for suggested use only by adults COULD have a SIMULATED sex scene with CARTOON CHARACTERS – IF people got a special patch for the program online. The Republicans ran around like it was a national crisis or something.
Never mind that that the TITLE of the video game was GRAND THEFT AUTO. Like, encourage kids to steal cars, okay, but don’t let them know about sex! The Republicans have gone down deep off the deep end.
I can’t believe that people would have no lives to steep so low to over analyse cartoons. Winnie the Pooh for instance never did wear pants, why should a stuffed teddy bear? If they knew their history Winnie was named by a child here in Canada which has nothing to do with any sort of sexual nature. If you ask me, I’m worried more about people who pick and see things that aren’t there and really are a reflection on their own thought process.
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Aron,
I think you’ve hit the nail on the head: James Dobson and his band of ultra-right-wing conservative Christian goons are really just projecting their own worries about being gay on the rest of us, through the pretty flimsly front of some cartoon character.
Aron,
You don’t know your history. Winnie the Pooh has nothing whatsoever to do with Canada!
He was created by the British author A.A.Milne, based on his son’s teddy bear.
So sad.
The agenda isint there at least.
Bloo is a homosexual character because he screams like a girl,one day the info on the TV called him a she, he loves wilt and Eduardo, and he wears girly clothes.
You are right, bloo from fosters home for imaginary friends is gay, but you forgot 1 thing…. he resembles a
blue penis.
Apparently no one on this entire site has actually studied homosexuality withing The Holy Bible. In the Bible in Leviticus 18:22 says:
“And with a man you shall not lie with as a man lies with a woman; it is an abomination.” But no where in the Bible does it say it is wrong to be a homosexual. It just says that Homosexual interactions are. If a person is willing to give his life for his religion do not think he would go with out sex?
It is completely possible to be both a Christian and a homosexual.
One cannot assume that just because they are a homosexual they would have homosexual interactions. That assumption is the same as saying marriages are wrong because they never work out and divorce is against the bible (give that the 2 married are Christian).
Do you eat lobster, Bob? Re-read your Leviticus.
Spongebob is not gay.I am a BIG! fan of Spongebob and as Stephan Hillenburg says he did not make the characters gay or sexual the characters are asexual. DUH!!!
What the crap?
Ugh, God created everyone in his image.
That’s all I’m going to say.
Is this for real? I mean, I’m a christian, but if this is the epitome of your definition of a ‘fundie’- These people are just plain crazy! Sounds like they have S E X on the mind so badly, they see it everywhere and in everything. (Can you say- suppressed?) I have seen, let’s say, 3 different levels of ‘conspiracy theorists’. The most reasonable tend to use facts and logic and may have some basis for their thoughts. The next level need fewer facts to be convinced and sometimes get wrapped up in things. These are nutty, but able to hear and see reason, backed with facts. Then there are these… No logic can penetrate the web of ideas. Even with facts, you’ll get; “But you can’t deny it looks like it.” Sure- but what to us would be basis for teasing and Jokes, these guys take SO seriously. You can’t ignore them, there are enough to have effects.