Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family thinks so.
This march, 61,000 schools will receive a music video put out by the nonprofit We Are Family Foundation. The video contains images of characters such as SpongeBob SquarePants, Barney, Winnie the Pooh, Bob the Builder and the Rugrats, singing the 1979 hit song "We Are Family."
The We Are Family Foundation uses the Tolerance.org "Declaration of Tolerance," which, in the last paragraph says, "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." (Tolerance.org is part of the Southern Poverty Law Center.)
Dr. Dobson and the American Family Association issued a "gay alert" warning of the music video because they say it promotes homosexuality because of Tolerance.org's inclusion of "sexual identity" in its "Declaration of Tolerance."
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann said the video "does promote tolerance of diversity, but contains no reference to sex, sexual lifestyle, sexual identity or Paris Hilton."
Olbermann goes on to say, "By the way, not only did I not see any sexual identity in that, I didn't even see very much of SpongeBob either. Although Winnie the Pooh wasn't wearing pants."
This is not the first time the Christian right has gone after a children's cartoon character for promoting homosexuality - in 1999, Rev. Jerry Falwell accused the purple Teletubbie of being gay.
In another story, a Christian bookstore, which was formerly a lucrative sex shop, is now going out of business in Kentucky. Once SpongeBob and Tinky Winky stopped shopping there..............
more info:
Christian groups go after ‘SpongeBob’
We Are Family Foundation's tolerance pledge
Keith Olbermann: "Will Spongebob make you gay?"
Sex shop made into Christian store is for sale
Focus on the Family
American Family Association
1.12.2005
What Weapons of Mass Destruction???
The United States is calling off the search for WMD in Iraq.
It's been almost two years since the United States invaded Iraq, a country who did not attack us, and a country who, according to reports, has not had an active WMD program since 1991. Now, after many thousands of troops and civilians have died, we are calling off the search for the WMD.
So we now know, officially, that one of two things are true:
1 - Saddam has officially fooled the weapons inspectors, George W. Bush, Tony Blair, the neocons who run the country, and everyone else who was screaming "War!" by hiding those things so we would never find them.....
....or....
2 - WE HAVE BEEN LIED TO.
And the cherry on top of this bloody sundae is that the President is still tying the Iraq war to 9/11.
Here's White House spokesman Scott McClellan to CNN: "We had a regime that had a history of using weapons of mass destruction and had a history of defying the international community and had a history of ties to terrorist organizations in Iraq. We had the attacks on September 11 [2001], that taught us we must confront threats before it's too late."
And there is Bush's oh so simplistic equation once again:
Saddam = bad man/bad regime. 9/11 = Bad event. Bad man + Bad event = War on Terrorism = War on Iraq.
Charles A. Duelfer, the man who heads the Iraq Survey Group that has been searching for Iraq's mysterious WMD, released a preliminary report, stating that in March 2003, the very same month of the invasion, Saddam had no stockpiles of WMD, nor had he started any program to make WMD.
The Iraq Survey Group is the organization that said that Saddam's WMD program and his nuclear (or "nucular" if you're an ivy league "C" student who plans on running for President one day) program ended in 1991 after the Persian Gulf War.
That's why "W" stands for "Wrong".
more info:
Official: U.S. calls off search for Iraqi WMDs (CNN)
It's been almost two years since the United States invaded Iraq, a country who did not attack us, and a country who, according to reports, has not had an active WMD program since 1991. Now, after many thousands of troops and civilians have died, we are calling off the search for the WMD.
So we now know, officially, that one of two things are true:
1 - Saddam has officially fooled the weapons inspectors, George W. Bush, Tony Blair, the neocons who run the country, and everyone else who was screaming "War!" by hiding those things so we would never find them.....
....or....
2 - WE HAVE BEEN LIED TO.
And the cherry on top of this bloody sundae is that the President is still tying the Iraq war to 9/11.
Here's White House spokesman Scott McClellan to CNN: "We had a regime that had a history of using weapons of mass destruction and had a history of defying the international community and had a history of ties to terrorist organizations in Iraq. We had the attacks on September 11 [2001], that taught us we must confront threats before it's too late."
And there is Bush's oh so simplistic equation once again:
Saddam = bad man/bad regime. 9/11 = Bad event. Bad man + Bad event = War on Terrorism = War on Iraq.
Charles A. Duelfer, the man who heads the Iraq Survey Group that has been searching for Iraq's mysterious WMD, released a preliminary report, stating that in March 2003, the very same month of the invasion, Saddam had no stockpiles of WMD, nor had he started any program to make WMD.
The Iraq Survey Group is the organization that said that Saddam's WMD program and his nuclear (or "nucular" if you're an ivy league "C" student who plans on running for President one day) program ended in 1991 after the Persian Gulf War.
That's why "W" stands for "Wrong".
more info:
Official: U.S. calls off search for Iraqi WMDs (CNN)
1.07.2005
Both Sides Should Be Grateful
Unlike the election in 2000, the Senate is not absent. Recently, when Senator Barbara Boxer of California joined Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones and other house members to object the certification of Ohio’s Electoral Votes, it was not a sign of one side being a “sore loser,” rather, it was a sign of true democracy – and both Republicans and Democrats (and all other parties, for that matter) should be grateful.
We should be grateful that someone in our government wants all the votes counted, whether it changes any outcomes or not. Having all votes counted is not a partisan issue, it is an American issue, and what could be more American than allowing democracy to work?
As Americans, we all owe a debt of gratitude to Senator Boxer, Representative Jones and the other members of Congress who are standing up for democracy. To them, I say “Thank you.”
Click here to join MoveOn.org in sending your own letter to the editor of your local newspaper about what Senator Boxer did for democracy.
We should be grateful that someone in our government wants all the votes counted, whether it changes any outcomes or not. Having all votes counted is not a partisan issue, it is an American issue, and what could be more American than allowing democracy to work?
As Americans, we all owe a debt of gratitude to Senator Boxer, Representative Jones and the other members of Congress who are standing up for democracy. To them, I say “Thank you.”
Click here to join MoveOn.org in sending your own letter to the editor of your local newspaper about what Senator Boxer did for democracy.
1.05.2005
A New Year.....A New Article....
"American priorities in a new year" is up on the new edition of the Capital City Free Press...
"...Setting priorities must be more than lip service, and it should start at the top. It makes no sense to put a yellow ribbon on your house or car and say, "I support our troops" if you are willing to send them to war unprotected..."
Click here to read the entire article.
Oh, and speaking of priorities, the Bush administration finally caved in to public outcry and upped the disaster aid for the tsunami victims from $15 to $35 to $350 million....for a minute there, it seemed like the big inauguration this month would get more funding than a disaster killing 140,000 people....but hey, if you were about to serve a second term after winning only one of the two elections, you'd want to party, too.
"...Setting priorities must be more than lip service, and it should start at the top. It makes no sense to put a yellow ribbon on your house or car and say, "I support our troops" if you are willing to send them to war unprotected..."
Click here to read the entire article.
Oh, and speaking of priorities, the Bush administration finally caved in to public outcry and upped the disaster aid for the tsunami victims from $15 to $35 to $350 million....for a minute there, it seemed like the big inauguration this month would get more funding than a disaster killing 140,000 people....but hey, if you were about to serve a second term after winning only one of the two elections, you'd want to party, too.
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