Friday, January 21, 2005

Christian conservatives say Sponge Bob's tolerance and diversity pledge is immoral

So let me get this straight in my mind because my first reaction is that these people are just non-mainstream christian wackos, but it looks like they may be more representative of the christian right that most think: leaders of the right-wing American Family Foundation and the Focus on the Family group have spoken out against an educational video and web page starring Sponge Bob and Barney and other children's figures that promotes a pledge for children to take stating they maintain "respect for people whose abilities, beliefs, culture, race, sexual identity or other characteristics are different from my own."

Here is the full story on CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/20/sponge.bob.reut/index.html

Here is the We Are Family Foundation web site where you can read more about the video and the innocuous pledge in question (a link to the Pledge is in the left menu):
http://www.wearefamilyfoundation.org/

And here are the sites for the two bigoted organizations (and these are the only two who managed to get into the CNN article. I guarantee there are dozens if not hundreds more of these close-minded groups out there):
http://www.family.org/
http://csj.org/

I urge you to email this message to those you know and then use the contact and Guest Book features on these sites to let these people know what you think of their stand against tolerance and diversity! It will only take a moment of your time and perhaps help some people who support these groups realize how myopic and small-minded their dictatorial and theocratic leaders are...

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