{"id":2408,"date":"2011-08-11T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/?p=2408"},"modified":"2011-08-11T06:00:44","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T12:00:44","slug":"sesame-street-the-gay-marriage-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/?p=2408","title":{"rendered":"Sesame Street & the Gay Marriage Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"

Within the next three to five years, our nation will undergo a sea change in its perception of gay rights, including the rights of gay couples to marry. (Southern Baptists & the Homosexual Culture<\/a>)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What, pray tell, will bring about this sea change when it comes to perceptions of gay rights within our country?\u00a0 What will change the hearts and minds of Americans regarding gay marriage?\u00a0 If you answered, “start with the children,” then you are onto something.\u00a0 And, the younger the better.\u00a0 With the recently enacted\u00a0SB48 that would require California’s public schools to begin teaching “homosexual history”<\/em> to students as young as six<\/strong>, this new law:<\/p>\n

prohibits any school material or instruction that reflects adversely on homosexuality, bisexuality or transgenderism, and prohibits parents from removing children from classes over offensive material. (see here<\/a>)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With totalitarian state guidelines which forbid parents to even opt out of having their children taught such blatantly\u00a0radical propaganda, there is every reason for Christian parents (and those parents who object to\u00a0the sexual indoctrination of their children) to pull their kids out of the public schools in California.\u00a0 I fully recognize that there are\u00a0Christian teachers and administrators scattered throughout California’s public schools who are trying their best to fulfill God’s call in their lives.\u00a0 I applaud all such teachers — in California and elsewhere — who have willingly taken on the challenges of the public schools in order to serve as a Christian witness in an increasingly dark world.\u00a0 However, children should not be willingly subjected to such darkness and radical\u00a0ideas masquerading as “education.”<\/p>\n

If parents withdraw their children from public schools in California and other school districts, like New York City (which is trying to include gay marriage curriculum into its classes)<\/a>, then how will children’s perceptions about gay rights be changed?\u00a0 Well, if Lair Scott (no relation as far as I know) of Oak Park, IL has her way, Sesame Street’s<\/em>\u00a0Bert and Ernie will inspire children (and adults) to embrace gay marriage as the norm in America.<\/p>\n

Ms. Scott started an online petition on August 4 which calls for Sesame Street’s<\/em> Bert and Ernie to get married<\/a>\u00a0— to one another — in a same-sex\u00a0wedding to be performed on the long-running show.\u00a0 As one who watched Sesame Street as a young child and who enjoyed the antics of these two best friends — along with the other colorful characters, including Grover, Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, and the Cookie Monster (but NOT Mr. Snuffleupagus, the Jar Jar\u00a0Binks of his day) —\u00a0this petition would be funny if it were not so\u00a0sad.<\/p>\n

In language that would make George Orwell proud, a portion of the online petition states:<\/p>\n

We are not asking that Sesame Street do anything crude or disrespectful by allowing Bert & Ernie to marry. It can be done in a tasteful way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I won’t even try to comment on what is and is not crude about using characters from a popular children’s television program to agitate for gay marriage.\u00a0 Regardless of what your opinion is on gay marriage, the entire spectacle would be tasteless.\u00a0 And, as to being disrespectful, I suppose if you don’t think that using Bert and Ernie in a publicly televised gay marriage on PBS is not crude or tasteless, then you will certainly not see it as disrespectful.\u00a0 Of course, many Americans — even some who may support gay rights and gay marriage — will find a wedding ceremony involving Bert and Ernie as\u00a0more than\u00a0a tad unseemly.<\/p>\n

However, as of last night,\u00a0the 3,750 people who have thus far signed the online petition must like the idea of these two men tying the knot.\u00a0 With more publicity, there is no doubt that this number will grow rather quickly.\u00a0 While I vehemently disagree with the purposes of Ms. Scott’s petition, I acknowledge that she has every right to advocate for gay marriage and to try to get Sesame Street<\/em> to unite Bert and Ernie in matrimony.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, unlike California’s public schools which will soon prohibit that which “reflects adversely on homosexuality, bisexuality or transgenderism,”<\/em> I can still write and speak out against such overt indoctrination.\u00a0 To the Children’s Television Workshop and PBS I say, “Leave Bert and Ernie alone!”<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 Surely there are more appropriate — and less controversial and distasteful — ways of proclaiming a pro-gay marriage message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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