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Monday, January 10, 2005
Cartoon Characters Drawn Into Values Clash
Children's TV Unites to Launch Pro-Homosexual Campaign of 'Tolerance':On November 10, 2004, a video remake of the song, "We Are Family," was created using the voices and images of over 100 beloved children's TV characters. On March 11, 2005, the video performance will air simultaneously on the Disney Channel, Nickelodeon and PBS. A similar video aired on those networks in 2002.
The nation's children will be all too familiar with the characters on the video, incuding those from Arthur, Barney, Blue's Clues, Bob the Builder, The Book of Pooh, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Dora the Explorer, Jimmy Neutron, Kim Possible, Lilo & Stitch: The Series, Little Mermaid, Madeline, The Magic School Bus, The Muppet Show, Rugrats, Sesame Street and Sponge Bob SquarePants.
On the surface, the project may appear to be a worthwhile attempt to foster greater understanding of cultural differences among all Americans. However, a short step beneath the surface reveals that one of the differences being celebrated is homosexuality.
WAFF was founded as a non-profit organization in 2002 by Nile Rodgers, who wrote the song "We Are Family" with his late music partner, Bernard Edwards. The WAFF site says that the group "celebrates our common humanity and the vision of a global family ...."
The website is filled with pro-homosexual materials. A "Tolerance Pledge," for example, created by Tolerance.org, part of the leftist Southern Poverty Law Center, encourages signees to pledge respect for homosexuals and work against "ignorance, insensitivity and bigotry."
Here's the controversial Tolerance Pledge, in its entirety:
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.
"When you go to the We Are Family Foundation website, there is a 'tolerance pledge' that children and others are encouraged to sign, which includes sexual orientation," says Ed Vitagliano, a researcher for the American Family Association. "While we want everyone to respect other people's beliefs, we do not consider it appropriate for children's television to be used in an effort to indoctrinate children to accept homosexuality." According to Vitagliano, the objective behind the video is to get children to the Foundation's website -- "and there they're given the full pitch about homosexuality."
Trust me, if you lure an 9 year old into reading these preachy lesson plans aimed at undergrads, you're far more likely to turn him into an insufferable, pedantic scold than one of the gays. This isn't Carson Kressely helping straight guys learn to buy socks. It's a never-ending "I Gave My Love a Cherry" on the steps of Delta House with no Bluto to smash the guitar.
Anyway, here's what the Tradional Values Coalition had to say the last time Nickelodeon aired a special promoting tolerance:
2 Comments:
Huzzah! 3WN's first troll!
Yes. Posting the same comment) on two different blogs (and, I'm guessing, many more) is Troll-tastic.
The tolerance pledge mentions about "abilities, beliefs, culture, race, sexual identity or other characteristics". I think the choice to highlight the differences most likely to get you beaten to death is valid. Sure, we should be tolerant of the left-handed, too, but I think we have that one pretty well under wraps.
