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PBS was surprised to receive a letter from new Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, warning the public TV network against airing an upcoming episode of the kids show "Postcards From Buster," because PBS had already informed her office it would not send the episode to its stations, programming co-chief John Wilson says... (snipped) PBS CEO Pat Mitchell expressing "strong and very serious concerns" about the "Postcards From Buster" episode. Specifically that, in the episode, called "Sugartime!," the animated asthmatic little bunny visits Vermont and meets actual, real-live, not make-believe children there who have gay parents.

Why, you might wonder, given that preschoolers who watch the episode learn how maple syrup and cheese are made, not to mention useful English-language phrases (the series is also designed to help children for whom English is a second language).

Because, Spellings explained in her letter, "many parents would not want their young children exposed to the life-styles portrayed in this episode." She did not say how many is "many," or cite a source for that information.

You know, I bet they'd air any show that included the flogging of homosexuals, or same being burned at the stake or some such. HEAVEN FORBID anyone actually show anything that might possibly be some sort of positive image of homosexuality. Let's just ignore the thousands of parents who are homosexuals, and the children who deal with this (I've known a few, and they are typically intelligent kids who are up front about it and deal with harassment). That IS an issue for children all over the world, and it might be nice for them to have someone to identify with, instead of being told their parents are, y'know, wrong. Evil.

I'm just disgusted. Yes, yes, I'll just go fu[b][/b]ck myself now, k thx.

guess they haven't checked out "the wiggles" yet. that one's just so flamboyant it's funny (tho does NOT require censorship. weird standards)

yes but the Wiggles are on Disney, not PBS. Plus, theyre from Austrailia, so americans just think thats how they act

well when you have people like the Wiggles representing you to the world, what do you expect?

True, but he's one against four. I think they may be able to dazzle him into submission with thei bright clothing

it's not like they're f[u][/u]ucking each other on the show. what you're saying, xythax, is like saying they shouldn't have a black person on the show, because they might find out about them "before the parents were ready to have 'that talk'".

parents should be watching ALL television with their children, or at least as much as possible, and a show like this is a good opportunity to discuss it with their children. Especially since they are likely to be in a private setting ("from the mouths of babes" can understandably make these talks more uncomfortable in a less private setting).

of course, all of that assumes that it's an issue of wanting to talk to their children first, and not the more likely situation: these parents hate the gays.

Anyone here watch Richard Simmons as a child?

What about Mr. Rogers (a single man who played with puppets) who had a mailman named Mr. McFeely who gave "Speedy Deliveries"?

Captain feathersword, definitely gay as a hook.

Edited, Thu Jan 27 14:09:19 2005 by RedjedBlue

Wrong. Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong. God this (not the quote, the situation) pisses me off to no extent. Don't we remember how this country is supposed to grounded on something called "freedom"???? like, "the condition of living free of restraints" (thanks dictionary.com!)?? This doesn't even introduce homosexuality and is NO different from nuns who ran orphanages. Women have been raising children together since the dawn of man, so a child seeing two women raising a child is NOT going to think about the wild sex that ensues between them, but rather that hey, that kid has two moms and no dad. i only have one mom and no dad (or insert other circumstances). and this is bad... how? seeing a loving family is going to hurt the child... how?

i'm glad to admit i'm an American lesbain. I hate admitting that i live in this hypocritical country. If my boss felt like it, just on a whim, regarldess of my job performance, he could walk up to me and say, "you're fired". i'd ask, "why?". he'd say "because you're gay" and there's NOTHING i can do about it. nothhhhing. nada. zilch. i'm out of a job. and my next job is going to call my old job and ask why i got fired.

and if (by the GRACE of God) all of my immediate family were to fall over dead, and then I fell over dead, my estate goes to the STATE, the freaking GOVERNMENT, but certainly not to the woman i've been living with for twenty years (well, i haven't been living with a woman for twenty years, but you get the point).

w.t.f. i hate this country i hate this country i hate this country i hate this country. i hate this country's hypocricy. AAAHHHHH

You don't by chance play the banjo as well do you?

Thank you very much Nadenu, for getting Fruit salad stuck in my head as I am about to go to work. I will think of you everytime I start to unkowingly hum it while I have clients sitting in my chair. It will continue to reassert their wonder if I am truely as mad as a hatter.
























Where's Jeff.... Is he sleeping outside? Where's Jeff.... Has he gone for a ride?

Oh, you have no idea... we have a Wiggles video that is all new stuff, that they don't show on Disney. We watch it almost ever day.

I go to work every day with at least 5 of those songs stuck in my head.

I'm just a very happy Australian.

And for the men... Wiggles concert = hottie young mothers <nudge, nudge>












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