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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: midnight Target on January 21, 2005, 08:25:46 AM
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Is Gay!!!????
Focus on the Family is up in arms about a music video created by the We Are Family Foundation that shows the popular porous cartoon character and several other kids' favorites dancing to the Sister Sledge song, ``We Are Family.'' The group claims SpongeBob & Co. are promoting a ``pro-gay agenda.''
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Now THAT would explain Rip's avatar!
Thank cod you haven't exported that thing here yet... we had enough with tipsy wipsy or whtever it was called...
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All you guys that get outraged every time some athiest screwball gets bent out of shape because of some nativity scene please remember that there are plenty of equally ridiculous religious screwballs. In this case a pretty large, well organized and well funded group of screwballs.
Charon
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Who is the "we are family foundation"?
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The We Are Family Project was started in response to the events of September 11th. Legendary songwriter/producer Nile Rodgers and Tommy Boy Music president, Tom Silverman gathered together 200 celebrities on the weekend of September 22, 2001 to re-record Nile's world renown hit song "We Are Family" as a beginning towards the healing process.
The recording sessions that weekend proved the song's power to give hope and allow people to feel better through an uplifting beat and a message of unity.
The power of "We Are Family" continued.
Shortly after the "adult" recording, the world of children's television came together for the first time in history and recorded their version of the song with over 100 beloved characters.
The music video aired simultaneously as a Public Service Announcement on PBS, Nickelodeon and Disney Channel on March 11, 2002 and September 11, 2002 with a unified message our common humanity and idea of a global family.
Nile had no idea that the hit song he and his late music partner Bernard Edwards wrote for Sister Sledge in 1979 would be a part of history again by helping to bring people together and giving hope that we can live together in a peaceful world.
The We Are Family Foundation is a not-for-profit 501 c 3 corporation formed in July 2002 to continue the work of promoting our common humanity and the vision of a global family through the use of a simple song and message - We Are Family.
Disco still sucks though.
Charon
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Originally posted by Charon
All you guys that get outraged every time some athiest screwball gets bent out of shape because of some nativity scene please remember that there are plenty of equally ridiculous religious screwballs. In this case a pretty large, well organized and well funded group of screwballs.
Charon
Agreed. This is beyond ridiculous. We all have our nutjobs in our individual flocks.
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Originally posted by Charon
All you guys that get outraged every time some athiest screwball gets bent out of shape because of some nativity scene please remember that there are plenty of equally ridiculous religious screwballs. In this case a pretty large, well organized and well funded group of screwballs.
Ummmm... are you even remotely suggesting that people asking for the removal of nativity scenes from virtually everything isn't an organized movement of any kind? There are no organizations that support this or defends anyone that choses to support it?
I've seen teletubbies and spongebob squarepants. The first thing I thought was "this is the gayest thing I've ever seen". The teletubbies are just ****ed up.... but the spongebob squarepants stuff is pretty funny. I just don't think it's even remotely a stretch of the imagination to see where the "gay" label comes from on that. Hell... even Bert and Ernie fully merited the label.
The really odd thing is that people will find it offensive that someone someone is "bigoted" enough to label bert and ernie as a "gay couple" but would die laughing at a bert and ernie puppet porn site.
There's no nobility in refusing to see gay undertones in some of the programming out these days. Whether you agree with it or not, you cannot deny it's presence.
Intollerance of intollerance of intollerance. Quite the viscious circle going on these days.
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on subject, i was watching TV last night and a ad come on for a ghey dating service.
no,i didn't call.
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Originally posted by DiabloTX
Agreed. This is beyond ridiculous. We all have our nutjobs in our individual flocks.
yep.
:aok
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the reason they think hes gay is hecause he routinely runs around holding patrick starfishs hand...how that matters when both are asexual and cartoons i am unsure...
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Ummmm... are you even remotely suggesting that people asking for the removal of nativity scenes from virtually everything isn't an organized movement of any kind? There are no organizations that support this or defends anyone that choses to support it?
Yes I am. It's usually some "concerned" parent who's a witch or in the Chicago area It's been a guy with the last name of Sherman.
Focus on the Family:
James C. Dobson, Ph.D., is founder, former president and chairman of the board of Focus on the Family, a nonprofit organization that produces his internationally syndicated radio programs heard daily on more than 8,300 radio facilities in 25 languages in more than 164 other countries.
Mission: To cooperate with the Holy Spirit in disseminating the Gospel of Jesus Christ to as many people as possible, and, specifically, to accomplish that objective by helping to preserve traditional values and the institution of the family.
Principles: http://www.family.org/welcome/aboutfof/a0000078.cfm
Assets: About $100 million as far as I can tell.
Then, you could look up Falwell or Robertson.
Now, the ACLU does support the athiests for the following reasons:
* Why does the ACLU oppose religious displays on public property
during the Christmas season?
Private citizens or private businesses are fully entitled to
commemorate holidays with religious displays, but when an agency of
government erects displays that symbolize Christian and/or other
religions, it is, in effect, endorsing the particular religions. In
two ACLU cases decided in 1989, the Supreme Court ruled that a
nativity scene displayed inside a Pennsylvania county courthouse
violated the Establishment Clause, but that a Hanukkah menorah
displayed outside another government building in the state was
acceptable because the "context" of the display was secular in that
it included other, non-religious symbols. The latter ruling echoed
the court's acceptance in a 1984 case, of religious displays on
public property as long as secular symbols like Santa Claus and his
reindeer are part of the display and its overall intent is secular.
The ACLU disagrees with these decisions. We believe that the place
for religious displays, as with religious events and practices, is in
the private sector -- the home, the religious day school, or each
person's place of worship. Moreover, spirituality is undermined and
religious symbols are trivialized when they are secularized in order
to permit government endorsement.
I agree with the technical justifications, but parsonally think its a bit silly unless the dollars really add up. But, I also think it's pretty easy to have the display with a little accommodation to non-christians. However, I think it would be even better if they were privately funded and the the minority religion had to fill out a "request to be included" form just to keep things from getting out of hand.
I don't think it's trivial when a judge puts a 1 ton statue of the 10 commandments in a court house to make a direct religious/political point about the one true religion. But, that's been hashed over already.
FWIW they have also defended religious freedom rights when they fall outside of the above criteria.
Charon
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Originally posted by john9001
on subject, i was watching TV last night and a ad come on for a ghey dating service.
no,i didn't call.
Yet.
Enough cartoons will make you gay however, so you shouldn't prabably watch them...
:rolleyes:
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Ever look at spongebob upside down?