It's official. The RRRR is mental in a BIG way.

[Kacer]

The Radical Religious Ridicules Right has LOST it.

Will Spongebob make you gay?
Two conservative Christian groups are attacking the cartoon character for allegedly being part of a "pro-homosexual video"

First it was the spate of the SpongeBob rob jobs from local Burger Kings. Now the little yellow guy who lives in a pineapple under the sea is at the center of a far grimmer controversy, again not of his own making. Two conservative Christian groups attacking the cartoon character for allegedly being part of, as one of them put it, a "pro-homosexual video."

A man named Dr. James Dobson, founder of a conservative Christian group called "Focus on the Family" addressed members of Congress at a black tie dinner in Washington celebrating the president's election victory this week. He advised the group that SpongeBob had been included in a pro-homosexual video which was to be mailed to thousands of elementary schools to push a tolerance pledge by kids, including tolerance of differences of what Dr. Dobson called "sexual identity." Dr. Dobson said most of the favorite cartoons of America's kids were in on the plot, Barney and Jimmy Neutron included.

More here, including link to watch the video the Christian groups are referring to.

[nualle]

Wandering around, I found this response. Pretty good one.

www.commondreams.org/views05/0121-37.htm

Queer Eye for the Straight Cartoon Guy
by Jill Rachel Jacobs

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The latest brewing homophobic crisis du jour brought to you exclusively from the religious right stems from Christian Conservative groups who are up in arms over a new music video that is due to be sent to 61,000 schools in March. The “We Are Family Foundation” produced the video that stars Spongebob, Barney and a host of other popular animated figures designed to promote tolerance and diversity.

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[Kacer]

I like that Thanks for posting it.

Also, I'd like to get the "Radical Religious Ridicules Right " OUT there ... hopefully it will become as popular as the RRR (Radical Religious Right) - and just as appropo, IMO, so PLEASE feel free anyone to use it w/impunity

Also, IMO that's helping to seperate the "kooks" from the real Christians, who may or may NOT have issues w/us - but who, while they may be WRONG, aren't NUTS.

[Kacer]

Further signs of psychosis:

Flintstones Are ‘Way Too Gay’
Fred and Barney should be banned because they are virtually inseparable, are never seen wearing pants and live together in the suggestively-named town of Bedrock, complains a conservative activist
By Andy Borowitz
Newsweek
Updated: 12:51 p.m. ET Feb. 8, 2005
Feb. 8 - The ongoing campaign against alleged gay icons in animated cartoons continued today as a newly formed conservative group demanded that television stations stop broadcasting "The Flintstones" at once.

Harland Devane, leader of the group Focus on the Flintstones, said at a press conference in Washington, D.C. today that his organization was issuing the demand because, "Quite simply, everything about 'The Flintstones' is way too gay."

The conservative activist distributed a memo itemizing over 50 ways in which the self-styled "modern Stone Age family" series promotes homosexuality, but left little doubt that most of his concerns centered on the relationship between the two main characters, Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble.
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