Saturday, February 26, 2005

This is it

I finally got my own blog. I have always dreamed of this moment, typing my illustrious fantasties. Yeah, fantasties. I am at work, doing nothing but watching college basketball. Glamorous? I know.

what? Sponges can be gay??

You would think I meant happy. The right has once again christened another cartoon character gay. I guess spongebob just shouldn't be holding hands with that bad influence, the starfish patrick. Because you know how bad it is to have a cartoon show with the main message of tolerance and acceptance.

"Spongebob is one of one hundred children’s characters, including Big Bird, Barney, and Winnie the Pooh, featured in a video titled “We Are Family” (based on the 1970s disco hit of that name) to be released in March by the We Are Family Foundation. Separate from the video, the foundation promotes a “tolerance pledge,” encouraging kids to accept all people regardless of their race, religion, ethnic background and sexual identity. Sexual identity is what inspired Dobson to see a homosexual conspiracy. In a statement to the magazine Christianity Today, his organization explains that “Dr. Dobson is concerned that these popular animated personalities are being exploited by an organization that's determined to promote the acceptance of homosexuality among our nation's youth.” The idea of tolerance is OK, Dr. Dobson seems to imply, as long as it does not include people whose way of life he does not like." (Common Dreams.org)

I couldn't stop my eyes from rolling back into my head. Sometimes it's hard to believe that other people think this way.