Once again, right-wing Christians are practicing intolerance under the guise of morality with the release of a new SpongeBob SquarePants video. The video, featuring a remake of Sister Sledge's "We Are Family,"and created by the nonprofit We Are Family Foundation, is designed to encourage tolerance and diversity. Not so, writes Ed Vitagliano in an article for the American Family Association:
"A short step beneath the surface reveals that one of the differences being celebrated is homosexuality"This criticism is largely due to the tolerance pledge on the foundation's website which asks people to respect the sexual identity of others along with their abilities, beliefs, culture and race. Dr James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, who considers tolerance to be a bad thing says:
"Their inclusion of the reference to 'sexual identity" within their 'tolerance pledge' is not only unnecessary but it crosses a moral line."Statements like these are so representative of a social climate which deems the thinly-veiled hatred of any outside group acceptable if its doctrine can neatly fall under the category of moral values. McCarthyism wasn't that long ago, kids.
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