The Most Pressing Issue Facing America: Spongebob
That's right. On the day of President Bush's second inauguration, the BBC reports that James Dobson and his Focus on the Family posse are pissing themselves over the inclusion of Spongebob Squarepants as part of a remake of the song We Are Family along with a schload of other children's television stars (muppets from Sesame Street, Bob the Builder), trying to bring a message of tolerance and diversity to children. But Dobson, et al believe that this is just another tool of pro-gay propaganda:
But James Dobson, founder of right-wing Christian group Focus on the Family, singled out SpongeBob at a black-tie dinner in Washington in the run-up to President Bush's inauguration, the New York Times said.
SpongeBob - who appears on the children's cable channel Nickelodeon - is seen as an icon for adult gay men in the US, apparently because he regularly holds hands with his sidekick Patrick.
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(C)onservatives say it sees the video as a cunning attempt to promote homosexuality.
They point to the fact that the WAFF is linked to a pledge being promoted by some liberal groups which includes a recognition of tolerance of sexual identity.
"We see the video as an insidious means by which the organisation is manipulating and potentially brainwashing kids," Paul Batura, a spokesman for Focus on the Family, told the New York Times.
Nile Rodgers (veteran record producer, funkafied member of Chic, whose songs Le Freak and Dance, Dance, Dance have become dancefloor classics in both straight and gay establishments, and writer of Sister Sledge's classic "We Are Family") thinks Focus on the Family "confused his foundation with an unrelated organisation with a similar name that supports gay youth." That would probably be this specifically LGBT-oriented organization. Looks like Dobson and his posse got sloppy.
Here's the link to the press release on Rodgers' We Are Family foundation web site promoting the video.
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