Like I said in another thread, don't sweat this. One Million Moms (an organization that has neither of those things) is just a theocratic hate group that attacks anything with the whiff of a gay character because JEEZAWWZ and BAH-BUHL! These are the same nuts that went after Archie for adding Keven Keeler. As in a famously puritanical and square comic book company that's so darn bent on keeping it's clean, pure image, it gets humorlessly (but humorously) litigious about its image was more accepting of gays than a bunch of not Moms playing the "mother" card. As in, created a gay character before they deemed KISS inoffensive enough to cross over (though to be fair, that's probably just when Gene started really wanting money and licensing the snot out of his band's images, so...).
Regardless of whatever political standing or religious views you have, the truth of the matter is, any relatively tiny but vocal group that wants sweeping censorship for whatever agenda, be it laziness, finger wagging, or something more sinister, sucks. I hate parental groups be they far right, far left, or just freaking lazy parents that want the government to do their job. You know how I usually have a bug up my butt about 1970's cartoons? ACT. And they had the purist of motives. But road to heck being paved with good intentions and all that... they're the reason the Superfriends couldn't punch out Lex Luthor, and had to wait until 1978 to even get the privilege of having Lex Luthor in there. Heck. Seduction of the Innocent. We all should know what that was, and it was based on insane troll logic and lazy poor correlation. Commercial Free Childhood is one of the reasons kids get the privilege of waking up to pet care and healthy cooking shows on Saturday mornings. I mean, that movement's main beef was that Spongebob was on cereal boxes and therefore "brainwashing" kids to want things. Or as I like to call it,freaking how Capitalism works, you freaking lazy, entitled parents.
But A Handful of Crazy Religious Leaders and barely a Thousand Crazy Guys on Facebook One Million Moms and the like are a special kind of awful. These are the same Ultrafundies that went after Harry Potter for being about witches which are clearly only associated with Satan somehow. They went after Pokemon for unintelligible reasons because it was popular and therefore a good way to scare parents. I mean, even PETA had the "it's cockfighting" paranoia. They don't care about family values, they care about "Family Values." As in code word for unconstitutional religious take over of the country. As in the same thing they have insane conspiracy theories about Muslims doing. They don't want to censor television to protect their kids, they want to censor television to show that they have that amount of power and to make sure they indoctrinate their kids instead of getting any outside views. Because the only way to get rid of this sort of thing is for the younger generation to realize how shallow and pathetic something like it is.
Make no mistake. If you have very deep religious beliefs, they're your beliefs. There are Christians on the right and the left. But values are a personal thing. If a movie, TV program, comic book, or whatever is offensive to your sensibilities, there's things called alternatives. There are religious channels that run nothing but The Waltons. There's also the ever popular ignoring it. That off button on the TV is there for a reason. And further more, I can't trust a supposed Christian organization that spends all it's time and effort scaring its followers about fiction instead of pooling those resources to help the homeless and feed the poor. THAT'S what Christ was talking about.
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