SpongeBob SquarePants is Gay?

Conservative groups are putting the squeeze on a film starring SpongeBob SquarePants bound for city elementary schools — charging it promotes a gay lifestyle.

The four-minute video features the wildly-popular gap-toothed sponge — whose sexuality has been questioned because he often holds hands with his pink friend Patrick Starfish — and scores of other cartoon characters singing the disco classic “We Are Family” alongside celebs Diana Ross, Bill Cosby and Whoopi Goldberg.

The creators of the video, the We Are Family Foundation — started by music legend Nile Rodgers, who wrote the song — say its message is to foster tolerance and plan to send copies this spring to up to 70,000 school districts nationally, including New York City.

But conservative groups insist the film cunningly seeks to coerce children to embrace homosexuality.

They tie their claim to a “tolerance pledge” on the foundation’s Web site that includes “having respect for people whose . . . sexual identity or other characteristics are different from my own.” (source)

This is hilarious. These people need to honestly get a grip on reality. They are taking cartoon characters who aren’t even real people and trying to figure out if they are gay or not? It’s kind of sad actually that someone has that much time on their hands.

And, what exactly is so wrong with “having respect for people whose ... sexual identity or other characteristics are different from my own.”? It seems to me that is exactly what the world needs. The mentality that would put that concept down is exactly the same mentality that has led mankind to war time after time.

We need to simply understand that we are different, and that’s not a bad thing.

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