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The nation’s new education secretary denounced PBS on Tuesday for spending public money on a cartoon with lesbian characters, saying many parents would not want children exposed to such lifestyles.
And many parents don't mind, or would appreciate it. If certain parents don't want their children "exposed to such lifestyles", they can do something novel - turn off the TV. It doesn't have to be on all the time. Instead, their kids can read an actual book. Perhaps an Arthur book. Those predate the TV show, y'know.
“Many parents would not want their young children exposed to the lifestyles portrayed in the episode,” Spellings wrote in a letter sent Tuesday to Pat Mitchell, president and chief executive officer of PBS.
See above comment. And what's with the word "exposed"? It's not like teh gay!!! is catching or anything.
“Congress’ and the Department’s purpose in funding this programming certainly was not to introduce this kind of subject matter to children, particularly through the powerful and intimate medium of television.”
WHAT subject matter? Are they kissing? Having hot bunny sex? What, exactly?
She asked that her department’s seal or any statement linking the department to the show be removed. She asked PBS to notify its member stations of the nature of show so they could review it before airing it. And she asked for the refund “in the interest of avoiding embroiling the Ready-To-Learn program in a controversy that will only hurt” it.
*dramatic eyeroll* Oh, yeah, she wanted to avoid controversy. Uh-huh. Riiiight.
In closing, she warned: “You can be assured that in the future the department will be more clear as to its expectations for any future programming that it funds.”
Sometimes, I just wanna cry.
The nation’s new education secretary denounced PBS on Tuesday for spending public money on a cartoon with lesbian characters, saying many parents would not want children exposed to such lifestyles.
And many parents don't mind, or would appreciate it. If certain parents don't want their children "exposed to such lifestyles", they can do something novel - turn off the TV. It doesn't have to be on all the time. Instead, their kids can read an actual book. Perhaps an Arthur book. Those predate the TV show, y'know.
“Many parents would not want their young children exposed to the lifestyles portrayed in the episode,” Spellings wrote in a letter sent Tuesday to Pat Mitchell, president and chief executive officer of PBS.
See above comment. And what's with the word "exposed"? It's not like teh gay!!! is catching or anything.
“Congress’ and the Department’s purpose in funding this programming certainly was not to introduce this kind of subject matter to children, particularly through the powerful and intimate medium of television.”
WHAT subject matter? Are they kissing? Having hot bunny sex? What, exactly?
She asked that her department’s seal or any statement linking the department to the show be removed. She asked PBS to notify its member stations of the nature of show so they could review it before airing it. And she asked for the refund “in the interest of avoiding embroiling the Ready-To-Learn program in a controversy that will only hurt” it.
*dramatic eyeroll* Oh, yeah, she wanted to avoid controversy. Uh-huh. Riiiight.
In closing, she warned: “You can be assured that in the future the department will be more clear as to its expectations for any future programming that it funds.”
Sometimes, I just wanna cry.
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Date: 2005-01-27 04:28 pm (UTC)I figured it would be something like that -- "Jane and Milly Smith own the Vermont Maple Syrup orchard, where Buster is visiting today." Not "Jane and Milly Smith, LESBIANS."