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January 05, 2005

Q. How Many "Researchers" Does it Take to Warp a Child's Mind?

A. Just One. Ed Vitagliano is doing a great job all by his lonesome.

A pro-family group is accusing homosexual activists of using popular children's TV characters to indoctrinate young children into their lifestyle. Specifically, the group is questioning the intention of a new children's video featuring those characters.

I find the fact that this group, the American Family Association, is being called "pro-family" to be, well, just WRONG.

I'm pro-family, even if that family has homosexual memebers. So I think that makes me more pro-family than Mr. Ed and his organization. Now, I'm not very good at math, but lets say about 10% of people are homosexual. And let's say there is an average of 2 children per family. Assuming that there is only one gay child per family and both parents are straight. That makes one if five families (or 20% for you percentage junkies) that have a gay member. So, that makes those of us that are tolerant of homosexuals 20% more pro-family than these bigots in the American Family Association.

So, now that we've gotten that out of the way, let's look at some of the cartoon characters that Ed feels are spreading the gay-gospel.

SpongeBob SquarePants, Barney the Dinosaur, Arthur, Dora the Explorer, JoJo, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Big Bird, Bob the Builder -- those and many others are among the characters starring in a music video remake of the 1970s song "We Are Family" that is designed to promote diversity and tolerance in the classroom.

Bob the Builder??? Come on, he's about the manliest cartoon character I've seen in a long time.

Gen. JC Christian, patriot, has been corresponding with Mr. Ed regarding his fear of homo-leaning cartoon characters with some interesting results.

We've all heard the rumors about Spongebob Squarepants, and I'm told that Dora the Explorer is bilingual. Of course Arthur likes to read, Barney would rather hug a Muslim than kill him, and Clifford the Big Red Dog prances around his neighborhood naked.

In previous correspondences, Mr. Ed was generous enough to send Mr. JC a vinyl shark and a vinyl Santa. I'm not quite sure what Mr. Ed's intentions were, but it seems that Mr. JC might have done some un-godly things with said vinyl shark and vinyl Santa.