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Of Muppets, Gays, and Rubber Duckies

August 29, 2011 by Gerard M. Nadal

News last week that the folks at Sesame Street have announced that Bert and Ernie are not gay and will not be getting married. Hot on the heels of the major gay marriage victory in New York State, there were voices from within the gay community pushing for Muppet nuptials.

The idea, quite apart from its obvious pathology, also seemed ill-considered. First, Bert and Ernie always seemed to me to be kids, even when I was a child. They didn’t seem to me at all adult, and I thought that they were brothers. Having shared a bedroom with my two brothers, the arrangement seemed as natural as my own. As St. Paul says, “To the pure of heart, all things are pure.”

Also, do gay men really want a gay-marriage spokesman who spends half the day caressing and singing love songs to his rubber ducky? Come on, guys, really!!!

LifesiteNews has an excellent article on the subject that is well worth the read.

The article mentions some salient points to ponder:

And blogger Alyssa Rosenberg summed up the biggest objection. “I think it’s actively unhelpful to gay and straight men alike,” she said, “to perpetuate the idea that all same-sex roommates, be they puppet or human, must necessarily be a gay couple … Such assumptions narrow the aperture of what we understand as heterosexual masculinity in a really strange way.”

Strange indeed. It teaches the ridiculous and deeply destructive idea that same-sex friendships are necessarily sexual. And that’s the last thing we want to teach our children, because it will spell the end of friendship, particularly friendships between young men.

Yet that is precisely the message that’s communicated over and over. It’s the reason gay apologists want to eroticize Bert and Ernie, David and Jonathan, Jesus and the apostle John, and Achilles and Patroclus from Homer’s Iliad.

Some in our culture are apparently incapable of understanding close friendship without sex. And that flies right in the face of a Christian understanding of friendship.

Actually, this points to the pathology that is part of homosexuality. Homosexuality perpetuates itself through seduction, then corruption. Few, very few men have had active heterosexual dating and sexual lives and then woke up in their twenties realizing that they are gay. It doesn’t work that way. Most have been initiated as young teens, or younger, by an older male.

This is the same pathology that drives groups such as NAMBLA (North-American Man/Boy Love Association), and the group that recently held a conference promoting pedophilia. It is the same pathology that seeks to establish a beachhead amongst the very youngest, those who are 2-4 years of age.

This isn’t about eliminating so-called discrimination. The battle has been won by gays in the courts and in the legislatures of the states where gay marriage is the law of the land. This was an attempt at cultivating children in a developmental stage where sex and sexuality are simply not on the children’s radar screen. It was also an attempt, part of a larger effort in the schools, to precondition children years before these issues will be raised by their parents in an age and developmentally-appropriate context.

Seduction, followed by corruption.

It is refreshing to see that Sesame Street’s decision was brought to us by the letters “N” and “O”.

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  1. on August 29, 2011 at 1:28 PM Bobby Bambino

    The article quoted mentions “It teaches the ridiculous and deeply destructive idea that same-sex friendships are necessarily sexual. And that’s the last thing we want to teach our children, because it will spell the end of friendship, particularly friendships between young men.”

    This idea is expounded carefully upon in one of my favorite articles.
    http://touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=18-07-021-f


  2. on August 29, 2011 at 1:42 PM Lisa Mladinich (@lisamladinich)

    Seduction, followed by corruption — averted at Sesame Street. @patheos @theanchoress


  3. on August 29, 2011 at 7:09 PM Kathleen in Steubenville

    Amen.


  4. on August 29, 2011 at 11:14 PM HeAdoptedMeFirst

    I think that the Katy Perry debacle may have been enough ruckus for Sesame Street producers, at least for a little while.


  5. on September 1, 2011 at 10:40 AM bob b

    “The battle has been won by gays in the courts and in the legislatures of the states where gay “marriage” is law of the land”…BUT NOT in the hearts or will of the people!

    In order for their agender to succeed, it had to go around the people, so they paid/put pressure on the above to get it push through!


  6. on September 2, 2011 at 9:03 AM Ken Craven

    The very human thing that there can be, and should be, male friendships of the highest order has been trashed by the New Order. The Greek philosophers and Christian literature have always held male friendships in high esteem. As a literature professor (retired), I deeply lament what has been done in the teaching of literature. Huckleberry Finn and Moby Dick–trashed. Children are now afraid of each other.

    Ken Craven



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