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SpongeBob SquarePants in Homosexual Agenda Scandal!!!

 
 
the Fool
21:31 / 20.01.05
US right attacks SpongeBob video

"Focus on the Family and other groups say the video - a remake of the Sister Sledge hit, We Are Family - is a vehicle for pro-gay propaganda."

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It would be funny if it weren't serious... actually its still funny... The american right attack a children's video about tolerance. Says it all really.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
05:24 / 21.01.05
From the link re:SpongeBob -

His creators deny that he is gay

Well I wouldn't let SpongeBob anywhere near my children, the big weirdo. When I was at university, as a younger man, and arguing that say Mr Benn was a crypto-fascist shill for the British Empire, people used to say " That guy's probably had enough to drink. "

I now realise that that they, as I always suspected, were wrong.
 
 
Jack Fear
11:53 / 21.01.05
Oh for God's sake.

SpongeBob reproduces asexually, by budding. What's more, he has actually said so, in at least one episode of the show. (Creator Stephen Hillenburg has a degree in marine biology.)

What these Focus on the Family fuckwits are upset about is not that SpongeBob himself is gay, but that he is okay with gay people. FoF's objection is that the diversity program and website to which this in-school video is linked lists "sexual orientation" as one of the things against for which people should not be discriminated.

(Diagram THAT sentence.)

So Dobson et al are redefining intolerance downwards: apparently tolerating homosexual orientation in others is just as bad as engaging in homosexual acts oneself. (Assuming, of course, that one abhors homosexual acts in themselves.)

On behalf of Jesus Christ, allow me to say, "What the FUCK? Keep my name out of this, you hateful morons."
 
 
_Boboss
14:43 / 21.01.05
thing is, if you translate SpongeBob's surname into english and then back into american his full name becomes SpongeBob SquareUnderpants. if they knew that there'd probably be a riot.
 
 
lekvar
19:21 / 21.01.05
By what twisted stretch of logic is tolerance of others the same as promoting their viewpoint? Since when is saying that it might be nice to respect other people's choices the same as brainwashing?
 
 
Grendel's Mother
20:41 / 21.01.05
Logic? These are the same people who approve of the job Bush is doing as President. They like Ashcroft. They like Rumsfeld. Torture is okay as long as it's done for the sake of maintaining freedom and human rights. Etc. Logic? Not from Dobson and company.
 
 
Brigade du jour
12:42 / 23.01.05
I'll hopefully come up with more reasoned criticism later, but for right now ...

Ahem. I'd like to fuck any and all representatives of Focus on the Family right up their sooooo tightly clenched arseholes, without lubrication (I'll suffer the strain on my foreskin, it's worth it) until they realise they're fucking enjoying it.

And even after I'd finished, leaving them shitting without touching the sides for a month, they'd probably turn round and say 'See?'
 
 
Cherielabombe
13:21 / 23.01.05
They really are getting cocky aren't they? (By "they", I mean the religious right getting self-righteous, not getting into cock, though maybe I mean that on a subconscious level). And Dobson is one of the worst. He's the same guy who told congressional representatives to effectively "watch their back" if they voted against conservative ideology or what what happened to Daschle could happen to them.

Here's some proof that the right are becoming arrogant, intolerant little bastards

My only hope is their arrogance will make them lazy. But this doesn't bode well for the next 4 years...
 
 
Liger Null
23:56 / 23.01.05
Ahem. I'd like to fuck any and all representatives of Focus on the Family right up their sooooo tightly clenched arseholes, without lubrication (I'll suffer the strain on my foreskin, it's worth it) until they realise they're fucking enjoying it

Dude, that is an ugly sentiment. I once heard a right-wing fascist piece of shit say something similar about lesbians.
 
 
Brigade du jour
00:25 / 24.01.05
I know, snowtiger, I know. It's probably one of those subconscious violent desire oojamaflips poking through one of them veneer of respectability thingamebobs again. I wasn't going to do it, really.
 
 
Liger Null
00:29 / 24.01.05
I figured as much, but, you know, eeewwww...on so many levels, eeeewwww...
 
 
Perfect Tommy
06:31 / 04.02.05
The United Church of Christ is officially on my "Rules!" list:

"SpongeBob meets with the Rev. John H. Thomas, the UCC's general minister and president, in his office. Explains Thomas, 'No matter who you are or where you are on life's journey, SpongeBob, you're welcome here.'"
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
10:40 / 04.02.05
The Reverend John Thomas???
That's beautiful.
 
 
Jack Fear
11:33 / 04.02.05
Yeah, the UCC are, as they have shown before, definitely on the side of the angels against the tide of "faith-based" intolerance.
 
 
Salamander
15:18 / 04.02.05
Having just moved from Texas to California, (I love my Governator), I can tell you from personal experiance, this is what you get when you exspose primitives to the internet. Just when you thought you had isolated the message of hate to the dank and dark corners of Smalltown Amerika, modern technology gives it a vitamin boost from hell, or heaven, or wherever. These people are farmers. Thier lively hood depeneds on stability and continual familial ownership of the family buissness, (i.e. the farm). So when Jerry Falwell says homosexuality is a choice and that God and Jesus hate all fags, you can see that these very stupid, well off people, and yes the poor rednecks and white trash that dont own farms too, are going to act out of fear. Really these ignorant farmers are being taken advantage of by the republicans and the neocons. Niether ahs done a benificial thing for the amerikan farmer for..., well ever. You guys are right to blame the leadership of these groups, obviously stirring the shit pot for fun and profit. But the average joe farmer shitkicker is ignorant. He's just been exsposed to the internet and all of our modern culture, (yes joe, fire IS hot). So don't hate the trusting flock too much, or the red faced hate monger either. Time will take its course, and in the future, we will have evolved into the perfect utopia or whatever dream you nurse yourself on, or we will die and become extinct. But hating won't get us to the former. And now, the rant...

...oh FUCK these assholes and there fundamentalist bullshit. I am so sick and tired of these dipshits being given a lick of fuckin' attention. Who the fuck let these assholes open there fuckin' mouthes, I thought there where laws against this kind of blatant fuckminded shit talking. Who the fuck do these people think they are? They're as bad as Al-Queda, if you believe such a group actually exists. These people are rediculous. And the fucked thing is, they get listened to! These fucks get news stories, yes news stories!, written and recorded about them. Do any of these assholes realize that if your intolerant, it pretty much knocks out from under them the moral authority to condemn the fundamentalists across the ocean? I dont know whats worse, the fact that these fucks reproduce, or the fact that they can somehow form enough of a coherent thought to use the internet. I mean shit, SHIT! FUCK, ah hell...
 
 
Jack Fear
15:39 / 04.02.05
There's a spelling mistake in your post.

You left some Ks out of "AmeriKKKa."
 
 
Triplets
23:27 / 04.02.05
He didn't use "Shrub" or "Cuntmander in Chief" either.

Kids these days.
 
 
Salamander
12:29 / 05.02.05
Well thats what happens when your angry, you just become plain and simply atavistic. Spongebob rules!
 
 
ibis the being
18:54 / 05.02.05
Um, I know you lived in Texas and all, but I'm not sure where you got the notion that the bulk of Conservative America is made up of farmers.

Aaanyway, our new Secretary of Education is hard at work!

[Margaret] Spellings, who has been charged with the difficult task of fixing the nation's troubled public education system, took time out on her second day on the job to fire off a letter to PBS CEO Pat Mitchell expressing "strong and very serious concerns" about the "Postcards From Buster" episode. Specifically that, in the episode, called "Sugartime!," the animated asthmatic little bunny visits Vermont and meets actual, real-live, not make-believe children there who have gay parents.

What makes this "promoting" homosexuality to people who are homophobic is, of course, the implicit message that homosexuals are normal people who experience such normal things as happy families (well, maybe that's not so normal...). You might as well show thieving, lying, alcohol-addicted adulterers managing to achieve financial success as the CEOs of huge American corporations... oh wait....

Snarkiness aside, this is all so much nonsense, and I predict we'll see the end of it (or at least the end of it being government-sanctioned and media-hyped) once GW is out of office. It's like some deranged fad, some sad version of McCarthyism for people who have totally lost their way. I think we should be slightly more concerned about the revival of Creationism, and the growing movement that advocates teaching it in schools (what would they say? "Scientifically speaking, there's a giant man in the sky who made the Earth out of thin air in seven days.").
 
 
ibis the being
18:56 / 05.02.05
Oh yeah, the quote above is from this Washington Post article, but it's been all over the news.
 
 
wicker woman
02:31 / 10.02.05
What these Focus on the Family fuckwits are upset about is not that SpongeBob himself is gay, but that he is okay with gay people . FoF's objection is that the diversity program and website to which this in-school video is linked lists "sexual orientation" as one of the things against for which people should not be discriminated.

(Diagram THAT sentence.)


1. Focus on the Family
2. What are they upset about?
3. If a legitimate concern, see 4. If Spongebob Squarepants, see 5.
4. Yeah, right. Go back to 3 again.
5. In the words of Richard Pryor, "Have a coke and a smile and shut the fuck up." See 6.
6. Nope, you're still not ready. Have another coke.
 
  
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