The Real Story Behind The SpongeBob Squarepants Controversy

You know the Standard Main Stream Media Spin (SMSMS): Those Wacky Christians were accusing SpongeBob Squarepants of promoting homosexuality. What a laugh, eh? Many naive, unsuspecting bloggers fell for this line, unfortunately. But I've learned over the years that there's almost always more to the story than first appears, so thus I've learned to wait before piling on.

David Huntwork explains:

The “We Are Family Foundation” produced a guide entitled Writing for Change coupled with a ‘gateway’ video featuring a myriad of familiar and beloved puppet and cartoon characters singing a rather benign modern rendering of the song ‘We Are Family’.

On the surface this appears to most people as a harmless version of the old Biblical standard of ‘loving thy neighbor’ and that is exactly what the producers of this propaganda video and accompanying teacher’s guide want you to believe. The insidious nature and true motives of this campaign are not immediately obvious but are easily revealed for what they truly are.

For ‘not promoting homosexuality’ the Writing for Change guide spends an amazing amount of time dwelling on the subject and having the teacher discuss with their young captive audience such appropriate and soul searching exercises as:

(Remember these are for elementary school age children)

• Identify ways in which homophobia and compulsory heterosexuality are at work in your daily life.
• Find some examples of compulsory heterosexuality in your daily life.
• How are you affected by compulsory heterosexuality?
• How are you affected by homophobia?
• How would you be affected if your sexual orientation were different than it is now?
• How would others you know – friends, family members, classmates, members in your clubs or organizations – be affected?
• How will understanding these definitions change your thinking about compulsory heterosexuality and homophobia?
• Will this change any of your behaviors? If so, how?

Quite different story now, eh? It always is . . .

Comments

[Im Batman]

I love to touch myself

[Who Gives A Dam!!!!]

OMG!!!!! all you twits!!!!! you all ragin on about SB, he so gay bla bla bla, but you all know more about him than i do, the names of all the dudes in it, all the things he says, well you got to be the gay ones!!! who are so gay they are being forced to keep looking at the tv, grow some balls and change the chan!

[finn]

their not gay.. im pretty sure if u had a best freind u would hug them... ps the gratest cartoon in my opinion is ADVENTURE TIMExD adventure time all the way

[Lol1234]

Look people you should stop looking at the negative and let kids enjoy spongebob by saying all of this stupid stuff u are ruining little innocent children's minds and ruining gods beautiful creations they were ment to be so just STOP BEING STUPID AND SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bye-bye:-)

[Rugrats Fan]

I was a child when spongebob came out and I always thought he was gay and i still think he's gay. What kind of straight man goes running around saying "IM READY IM READY" all the time. And this shows you grown ups little children knows what gay is at a young age because I was 7 or 8 when this show started.

[Geraldine]

I don't understand people...why do some look for things that are not there....just look at it for what it is...however you see it and let it up to others to see what they want to see. Let the children "think" as a child and adults, please think like and "adult". I bet when you were a child you did not think anything of the sort about "gender"...now that you are adults you are seeing what you want to see and spoiling it for your child(ren)...just like you made up your mind, let them decide for themselves, that is when they get older .... I am 65 years old and never once thought about the "gender" of sponge bob ... Thanks for spoiling my image of him...Thank you very much...but I still won't change or influence the minds of my young grandchildren. Thank You!!

[anthony]

....list of the great cartoons.....hey arnold and angry angry beavers and ren and stimpy also beavis and butthead.....johnny bravo also ed edd and eddy...rocko's modern life...and 2 stupid dogs and simpsons and if you want to you can put family guy in there to and south park just becasue they were late 90's and boom there is the greatest list of cartoons and if i am forgetting any just let me know and keep commenting hahahahahahahahah

[anthony]

spongebob is the GREATEST cartoon basically ever to be shown on the earth....alll the other ones in the past ten years basically sucked alottttt....the 90's cartoons were the also best rugrats catdog cow and chicken dexter lab come on now and if you say spongebob is gay than your a retard because its obviously showing that you should love your neighbor as yourself which is also one of the ten commandments bitches....

[ティファニー]

tiffany & coスウォッチ グループ ジャパンはこのほど、東京?銀座のニコラス?G?ハイエック センター内に「ティファニー ウォッチ ショールーム」をオープンした。男性向けの「アトラス ジェント スクエア クロノグラフ」、女性向けの「ティファニー ジェメア」をはじめ、希少性の高いアイテムも展示、販売される。Tiffany Rings

[cheap louboutin]

No country , however rich , can afford the waste of its human resources

[me]

If Spongebob is gay because he hugs Patrick and holds hands w/ him than a ton of girls in my school are gay. But they're not, they're just awesome friends. So just shut up about Spongebob, HES NOT GAY!!

[spongebobisgay]

CANCEL SPONGEBOB HE IS TOTALLY GAY AND ITS NO AWESOME EM ALL AND HE IS TOTALLY RAINBOW AND GAY.

[spongebobhater inc]

i totally agree with the last comment
sponge bob is definetely a gaylord

[spongebobsucks]

i hate sponge bob because he/she is totally gay they should cancel him. and is a bad influence for all humans and dont forget he is so weird all the time and that he has a romantic relationship with squidward dude

[Daniel]

spongebob was probably meant for adult swim

[the grind]

Spongebob is just an excellently written cartoon that gained popularity in a pop sort of fashion but was written for a younger
audience within the neutrality of not promoting either sexual preference.

Bugs Bunny was gay, kissing on that bald headed middle aged man out hunting.

Tweety bird was gay, kissing sylvester the cat, a cat with a strong lisp, and making him chase him to no ends just so sylvester could put him in his mouth.

Now that I really think about it Daffy had a lisp too..............Damn....
..................they were all gay, except for Pepe LePeau......thats my nigga.
He stayed chasin that pussy .

[the grind]

Spongebob is just an excellently written cartoon that gained popularity in a pop sort of fashion but was written for a younger
audience within the neutrality of not promoting either sexual preference.

Bugs Bunny was gay, kissing on that bald headed middle aged man out hunting.

Tweety bird was gay, kissing sylvester the cat, a cat with a strong lisp, and making him chase him to no ends just so sylvester could put him in his mouth.

Now that I really think about it Daffy had a lisp too..............Damn....
..................they were all gay, except for Pepe LePeau......thats my nigga.
He stayed chasin that pussy .

[Rachel]

maybe spongebob was really meant for adult swim.

[Rachel]

maybe spongebob was really meant for adult swim.

[BlizzardBringer]

spongebob is probably ment to be watched by younger kids who dont think much of homosexuality. Tho in the cartoon spongebob does have a job and live on his own, hes very childlike... making it funny but some people take it to the extreme and call it gay. Im sure it would be just as funny if written for Adult swim haha.. but then again im a teenager and i think its funny either way.