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
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