James Dobson Thinks Spongebob is a Real Person
Wed, 03/02/2005 - 1:25am
The following is my response to David E. Sheehan's comment entitled,"Pissed? How ignorant can you be?":
It's obvious that Dr. Dobson is not really attacking a fictional cartoon character, but rather humans using the character to promote tolerance and diversity. For shame! Tolerance AND diversity!? If by having my facts straight, you mean direct quotes from Dr. Dobson, here's his February newsletter entitled, "Setting the Record Straight". I still disagree with him for attacking the We Are Family Foundation. I support the pledge he derides:
To help keep diversity a wellspring of strength and make America a better place for all, I pledge to have respect for people whose abilities, beliefs, culture, race, sexual identity or other characteristics are different from my own.I agree with the definition of homophobia:
Thoughts, feelings, or actions based on fear, dislike, judgment or hatred of gay men and lesbians / of those who love and sexually desire those of the same sex. Homophobia has roots in sexism and can include prejudice, discrimination, harassment, and acts of violence.Dr. Dobson says of the definition, "Is this the kind of nonsense you want taught to your kids, especially if the nation’s most popular cartoon characters are used to get across the concepts? I pray not!" Dr. Dobson illustrates the church's failure to recognize homophobia as a serious problem in our country and in our pews. Doesn't the church have anything better to do than criticize efforts to promote tolerance and diversity? Is this really the best way for Focus on the Family to serve the family? What's wrong with pledging to have respect for people? I'm going to have to side with Spongebob on this one.
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Eric wrote about the definition of Homophobia, and then Dr. Dobson's comment.........what he failed to do, was list them all.....as you can read for yourself here...
Compulsory Heterosexuality: The assumption that women are "naturally" or innately drawn sexually and emotionally toward men, and men toward women; the view that heterosexuality is the "norm" for all sexual relationships. The institutionalization of heterosexuality in all aspects of society includes the idealization of heterosexual orientation, romance, and marriage. Compulsory heterosexuality leads to the notion of women as inherently "weak," and the institutionalized inequality of power: power of men to control women’s sexuality, labor, childbirth and childrearing, physical movement, safety, creativity, and access to knowledge. It can also include legal and social discrimination against homosexuals and the invisibility or intolerance of lesbian and gay existence.
Gender: A cultural notion of what it is to be a woman or a man; a construct based on the social shaping of femininity and masculinity. It usually includes identification with males as a class or with females as a class. Gender includes subjective concepts about character traits and expected behaviors that vary from place to place and person to person.
Heterosexism: A system of beliefs, action, advantages, and assumptions in the superiority of heterosexuals or heterosexuality. It includes unrecognized privileges of heterosexual people and the exclusion of nonheterosexual people from policies, procedures, events and decisions about what is important.
Homophobia: Thoughts, feelings, or actions based on fear, dislike, judgment or hatred of gay men and lesbians / of those who love and sexually desire those of the same sex. Homophobia has roots in sexism and can include prejudice, discrimination, harassment, and acts of violence.7
Is this the kind of nonsense you want taught to your kids, especially if the nation’s most popular cartoon characters are used to get across the concepts? I pray not!
He was talkin about ALL of them Eric.
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