Will Tinky Winky and Spong Bob getting hitched?

Conservatives go on a cartoon kick. Giving SpongBob a kick in his queer, square pants:

Let's ignore that not even a club kid would have wore those things.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Christian Conservative groups have issued a gay alert warning over a children's video starring SpongeBob SquarePants, Barney and a host of other cartoon favorites.

The wacky square yellow SpongeBob is one of the stars of a music video due to be sent to 61,000 U.S. schools in March. The makers -- the nonprofit We Are Family Foundation -- say the video is designed to encourage tolerance and diversity.

But at least two Christian activist groups say the innocent cartoon characters are being exploited to promote the acceptance of homosexuality.

Hmmm, when did the acceptance of people becaome exploitative, guilty, or something to avoid promoting?

'A short step beneath the surface reveals that one of the differences being celebrated is homosexuality,' wrote Ed Vitagliano in an article for the American Family Association.

'Their inclusion of the reference to 'sexual identity' within their 'tolerance pledge' is not only unnecessary but it crosses a moral line,' Dr James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, said in a statement on Thursday.

Frankly, it is not only necessary (after all it's exclusion would suggest that sexual identity is already fully or adaquitely "celebrated" and that the people with a sexuality different than your own are sufficiently free from bias. Clearly they are not.

In fact, the very way that some of the greatest beneficiaries of the civil rights movement are reluctant to join the cause for full diversity is testiment to this problem. And it's not new. It hails back to when the US liberated the concentration camps freeing the Jewish prisioners but not the homosexuals because "there were legitimate criminals." This accounts to no more than, "But but but, they're GAY!"

Dobson was quoted by the New York Times on Thursday as having singled out the wildly popular SpongeBob during remarks about the video at a Washington D.C. dinner this week.

I guess Dobson has run out of rediculous pro spanking propoganda to write and with the virtual complete regression to the mean of the Promise Keepers movement needs to find some way to get into the media.

It is not the first time that children's TV favorites have come under the critical spotlight of the U.S. Christian right. Tinky Winky, the purse-toting purple Teletubbie, was in 1999 declared a homosexual role model by Rev. Jerry Falwell.

Regarding the Falwell "outting", there was a history of basis from which he drew which the "Right Grrl" points out.

Even still not all evangelicals feel Falwell was a misunderstood yet fully justified victim of a media frenzy from the political correctness police. D. Marty Lasley called it an "evangelica Christian public relations disaster" (if only she had been right! -- or is that left?)